From owner-freebsd-hackers Wed Oct 16 21:29:54 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA02216 for hackers-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:29:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from misery.sdf.com ([204.244.210.193]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA02201 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:29:47 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (tom@localhost) by misery.sdf.com (8.8.0/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA03365; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:50:01 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:49:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius To: Tony Tam cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SLIP speed In-Reply-To: <96Oct16.180701pdt.15362@mail.iidpwr.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Tony Tam wrote: > Hackers, > > Could anybody tell me what is the minimum response time on an SLIP > or PPP circuit in order to make TELNET works reliable? > > -- > Yours truly, Well, telnet should be reliable with any functioning network. Any network that gives you better than 300ms round-trip time as reported by ping, is pretty usable with telnet, anything under 200ms is best. Round-trip time just for an idle 28.8k slip/ppp modem link is about 160ms. Modems are just dogs for latency. An idle 56k line is around 30ms rtt. Tom