Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:15:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.buffalostate.edu> Cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slow telnet Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971002141413.21480B-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.3.95.971002125333.2256A-100000@www.buffalostate.edu>
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I notices here starting with 2.1R that an rlogin would be slow in direct inverse proportion to the stty baud rate setting. So at a $ prompt type stty 9600 and see if it suddenly speeds up. On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Dave Hummel wrote: > 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 > >
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