From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Jul 24 18:08:24 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) id SAA29538 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 18:08:24 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.11/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA29531 for ; Mon, 24 Jul 1995 18:08:22 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id KAA01300; Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:56:42 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199507250126.KAA01300@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: ping times using ppp To: rjs@clark.net (Ron Steele) Date: Tue, 25 Jul 1995 10:56:42 +0930 (CST) Cc: freebsd-questions@freefall.cdrom.com In-Reply-To: from "Ron Steele" at Jul 24, 95 08:47:16 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 934 Sender: questions-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Ron Steele stands accused of saying: > When trying to do interactive work over a ppp link, I find the latency > time very annoying. Ping generally reports round trip times of about > a quarter second. I use hardware handshaking and v.34 modem on > 16550 compatable serial card. Currenty 2.0R, soon to be upgrading. > > Does this time seem about right? Any ideas on how to improve these times? Nope, that's about normal. After a while, you get used to it. You can sometimes improve things a little by turning off compression in the modem. > Ron -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[