From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Oct 30 11:48:14 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id LAA24744 for questions-outgoing; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:48:14 -0800 (PST) Received: from soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU [128.32.43.52]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id LAA24739 for ; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:48:12 -0800 (PST) Received: from localhost (richardc@localhost) by soda.CSUA.Berkeley.EDU (8.6.12/8.6.12) with SMTP id LAA25950; Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:49:04 -0800 Date: Wed, 30 Oct 1996 11:48:59 -0800 (PST) From: Veggy Vinny To: Mike Newell cc: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu, questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Ricochet modem by Metricom In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 30 Oct 1996, Mike Newell wrote: > I have a couple of friends that have these, using the commercial network > connects. They see about 9.6Kbs throughput with MASSIVE packet delays - > on the order of seconds. They're OK if you use a POP/IMAP service or > want to use them for viewing Web stuff (although the 9.6Kbs throughput is > not impressive...), but for interactive stuff they're worse than going > through a satellite link. :-( Hmmm, I'm getting 33kBps with the port locked at 115kbps... > One of my friends was using his laptop in his living room to connect to > his main system in his study. Apparently he was connecting through the > DC hub, which routes him to Texas, then through SF to NASA's hub there, > then back to DC and to his house. Quite the whirlwind tour... :-) Hmmm, it has nothing to do with Ricochet since Metricom is on AlterNet but it sure must have been fun. =) Vince GaiaNet Corporation - Unix Networking Operations - GUS Mailing Lists Admin