From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 11:16:58 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id LAA13051 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:16:58 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet4.buffnet.net (buffnet4.buffnet.net [205.246.19.13]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id LAA13027 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 11:16:30 -0700 (PDT) Received: from buffnet11.buffnet.net (shovey@buffnet11.buffnet.net [205.246.19.55]) by buffnet4.buffnet.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id OAA20339; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:16:39 -0400 (EDT) Date: Thu, 2 Oct 1997 14:15:14 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey To: Dave Hummel cc: questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slow telnet In-Reply-To: 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 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 > >