From owner-freebsd-questions  Sun Jan 14 14:45:31 1996
Return-Path: owner-questions
Received: (from root@localhost)
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id OAA28282
          for questions-outgoing; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 14:45:31 -0800 (PST)
Received: from mailgate.ericsson.se (mailgate.ericsson.se [130.100.2.2])
          by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA28258
          for <questions@FreeBSD.org>; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 14:45:11 -0800 (PST)
Received: from egg.lmc.ericsson.se (egg.lmc.ericsson.se [142.133.32.1]) by mailgate.ericsson.se (8.6.11/1.0) with SMTP id XAA14841; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 23:44:46 +0100
Received: from chicago.lmc.ericsson.com (chicago.lmc.ericsson.se) by egg.lmc.ericsson.se (4.1/LME-2.2)
	id AA12255; Sun, 14 Jan 96 17:44:44 EST
Received: by chicago.lmc.ericsson.com (SMI-8.6/SMI-SVR4)
	id RAA15337; Sun, 14 Jan 1996 17:43:50 -0500
Date: Sun, 14 Jan 1996 17:43:50 -0500 (EST)
From: Samy Touati <lmcsato@lmc.ericsson.se>
X-Sender: lmcsato@chicago
To: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu
Cc: questions@FreeBSD.org
Subject: Re: delays in ppp
In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.960114114539.4798B-100000@gdi.uoregon.edu>
Message-Id: <Pine.Sola.3.91.960114174318.15331A-100000@chicago>
Mime-Version: 1.0
Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII
Sender: owner-questions@FreeBSD.org
Precedence: bulk



I forget to mention that this same connection works very well in SLIP and 
in CSLIP mode.

Samy


On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, Doug White wrote:

> On Sun, 14 Jan 1996, Samy Touati wrote:
> 
> > I'm running 2.1 on a 486 PC, and I configured ppp  to connect to my host 
> > provider. The connection is made successfully but there are delays 
> > in displaying what I'm typing , as if there is a buffer that gets emptied 
> > every  5 or 6 seconds.
> 
> Did you check this by calling directly?  I think the system may have just 
> been busy (I've been on computers like this). 
> 
> > I'm using a 14.4 modem and I tried to change the mtu/mru to 296 without 
> > any amelioration.. When I use netdcape it seems to be faster, but it 
> > becomes unusable in terminal mode (in an xterm). 
> > What should I look for?
> 
> Disabling compression on the modem, perhaps?
> 
> > Thanks. > > > PS: I'm using crtscts and passive in myy options file.
> 
> I don't know about passive.  Hardware handshaking yes.  
> 
> Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
> Internet:  dwhite@gladstone.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant
> http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major
> 
>