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From: Nadav Eiron <nadav@barcode.co.il>
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Subject: Re: slow telnet session ! 9600 bps.
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Simon N Atkin wrote:
> 
> Hello,
> 
> Is there anyway to speed up a telnet session, if you type
> stty on the console we get 115200 as the bps rate, but if you
> telnet in and do the same we get 9600 bps as the rate,
> 
> Its not the network, as it is switched 10/100 ethernet, so
> it must be the terminal rate, it's as if you are on a 9600
> serial terminal heap (slow !!!), if you cat a large file it
> jumps threw at 9600 as if it was buffered ??, but on the console
> it's at the end before I've refreshed my own video memory. :)
> 
> I've looked in the /etc/ttys file and found
> 
> # Pseudo terminals
> ttyp0   none                    network
> ttyp1   none                    network
> ttyp2   none                    network
> 
> I've also looked in /etc/gettytab and cannot find a ref to none
> or network.
> 
> Any ideas folks
> 
> Cheers
> 
> Simon Atkin, (simat@enta.net)  :)
> Enta Technologies Ltd, UK.

The 9600 bps that stty shows is bogus and has nothing to do with the
actual speed of the pseudo terminal used by telnet, so there's absolutly
no use in trying to change it. Your connection may be slow due to
network problems, but stty has nothing to do with it.

Nadav