From owner-freebsd-hackers Tue Feb 7 06:45:21 1995 Return-Path: hackers-owner Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) id GAA25992 for hackers-outgoing; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 06:45:21 -0800 Received: from minnow.render.com (render.demon.co.uk [158.152.30.118]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.9/8.6.6) with ESMTP id GAA25977 for ; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 06:45:17 -0800 Received: (from dfr@localhost) by minnow.render.com (8.6.9/8.6.9) id OAA14208; Tue, 7 Feb 1995 14:42:17 GMT Date: Tue, 7 Feb 1995 14:42:06 +0000 (GMT) From: Doug Rabson To: "Christoph P. Kukulies" cc: freebsd-hackers@freefall.cdrom.com Subject: Re: SLIP (ping time over 14400) In-Reply-To: <199502071231.NAA19137@gilberto.physik.rwth-aachen.de> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: hackers-owner@FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Tue, 7 Feb 1995, Christoph P. Kukulies wrote: > What are the usual turn around times when pinging a host over a 14400 > SLIP link resp. what ftp rates can one expect? > > I have a link running and it shows 200 ms. The ftp rate is significantly > below 1KB/s. > > Would ppp give me better results? I run my link using ppp and get a ping rtt of about 200ms over a 21600bpp link (driving the modem at 57600bps). When my service provider is not too loaded (rare), I can ftp at about 2.1k/s -- Doug Rabson, RenderMorphics Ltd. Mail: dfr@render.com Phone: +44 71 251 4411 FAX: +44 71 251 0939