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On Mon, 14 Oct 1996, David Greenman wrote:

>    fastimeout can't be involved with pings since they use ICMP, not TCP. 14.4K
> modems usually have large delays due to buffering and compression delays. Some
> are better than others. I used to see 170ms on certain Intel modes, and as low
> as 110ms on certain 28.8K Hayes modems. Supra's are usually about the worst
> at near 200ms.

Now I don't feel so bad.  I get 140ms pings across a pair of ZOOM 28.8
modems. (Down from 180 with my old ISP).  I noticed that compression made
no difference on these modems for ping time, though I expected the ping
time to go down without compression.