From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 10:29:36 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id KAA10272 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:29:36 -0700 (PDT) Received: from www.buffalostate.edu (hummel@www.buffalostate.edu [136.183.2.3]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id KAA10255 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 10:29:22 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (hummel@localhost) by www.buffalostate.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id NAA02602 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:29:00 -0400 Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 13:29:00 -0400 (EDT) From: Dave Hummel To: questions@freebsd.org Subject: slow telnet Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Hi, I'm connected to the internet at 14.4. Yes, I know this is extremely slow. The thing is, it seems like wu-ftp and apache are very responsive to outside connections. The problem is that telnet is very slow coming in or going out. Connections are from/to Red Hat Linux, Digital Unix, VMS and NT. I really don't expect high performance because of obvious things like crappy old phone lines etc. There does seem to be some disparity, however, between the performance of telnet as opposed to ftp and http all things condidered. I can live with some key lag, but I often have to wait five or more seconds for any response at the other end. I have disabled tcp_extensions which is about the only piece of advice I could find in the mailing lists, and network traffic to my machine is pretty much null. _Any_ advice on what else to do about this will be appreciated even if it's "you can't do anything" or "get a better connection". If, however, there is a configuration trick or two that I'm ignorant of, this is even better :) - Just give me a hint on where to start looking. Thanks, Dave