From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Dec 8 07:15:03 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id HAA13063 for questions-outgoing; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 07:15:03 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions) Received: from iconmail.bellatlantic.net (iconmail.bellatlantic.net [199.173.162.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id HAA13049 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 07:14:55 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from dmm125@bellatlantic.net) Received: from client201-122-21.bellatlantic.net (client201-122-21.bellatlantic.net [151.201.122.21]) by iconmail.bellatlantic.net (IConNet Sendmail) with SMTP id KAA07222 for ; Mon, 8 Dec 1997 10:14:54 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <1.5.4.16.19971208151451.584f39d2@postoffice.bellatlantic.net> X-Sender: dmm125@postoffice.bellatlantic.net X-Mailer: Windows Eudora Light Version 1.5.4 (16) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Date: Mon, 08 Dec 1997 10:14:51 -0500 To: questions@freebsd.org From: Donn Miller Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk I am presently using a USR sportster 56k, and am not using any modem initialization strings with this. I was wondering if it were possible to tweak a modem initiazation string to get faster performance. I had been using a 14.4 Wang FAXmodem, and my ISP only supports 33.6k logins. So I choose speed = 38400. However, It seems like the download speed is faster, but not as fast as it should be (i.e., only 1.5 - 1.8 x what I was getting at 14.4k). The output of netstat -w 5 with the new modem says 10000 - 12000 most of the time whereas with 14.4 I was getting 7500 - 9000 bps. Maybe this is a phone line noise problem or an ISP problem? Would a different init string solve this do you think? I've heard other people complaining about apgrading their modems but the download speed doesn't increase proportionaly with the speed of the modem; seems like it follows a logarithmic curve instead a linear curve in terms of improvements. Also, is it possible to see what speed I'm connected at with ppp -background? I don't see this in the log files. Maybe it would be useful to have some command-line tools to check on connect speed and other parameters even after ppp is started in the background with ppp -background. Donn