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On Thu, 30 Oct 1997, Brian J. McGovern wrote:

> The FreeBSD boxes managed about 8.26 K/s. The modem DTE port
> was saturated at 115200bps +/- 20bps .
> 
> The Win95 box managed about 10.5 K/s. Again, the DTE port on the modem
> was saturated at 115200bps +/- 20bps.

  Try turning the tcp extensions off.  rfc1323 is well known for bloating
traffic on p2p links, because it can make vj header compression
ineffective.

Tom