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Date: Wed, 31 Jul 1996 20:58:23 -0700 (PDT)
From: Doug White <dwhite@riley-net170-164.uoregon.edu>
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To: Robert Heron <robert@printy.wroc.pl>
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Subject: Re: PPP logging 
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On Wed, 31 Jul 1996, Robert Heron wrote:

> I set up my PPP and it seems to work (ftp logins OK, telnet logins OK,...)), 
> but when transferring files (www,ftp), even small, it works very slowly and 
> strange.

PPP handles all the TCP protocol details on top of the actual data, so
your performance will vary from a straight dialin.

You might try disabling predictor-1 compression in ppp by doing

disable pred1
deny pred1

before dialing your ISP.

Doug White                              | University of Oregon  
Internet:  dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu    | Residence Networking Assistant
http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite    | Computer Science Major