Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:24:39 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" <michaelv@MindBender.serv.net> To: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> Cc: Tony Kimball <alk@think.com>, CPELTIER@iectech.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppd reliability Message-ID: <199610170424.VAA06607@MindBender.serv.net> In-Reply-To: Your message of Wed, 16 Oct 96 13:43:44 -0600. <199610161943.NAA13166@rocky.mt.sri.com>
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>> Quoth Nate Williams on Wed, 16 October:
>> : I've got a 486/66 box that was previously running 3 lines at 115K
>> : full-blast w/out a hiccup. It's down to two b/c we upgraded our link to
>> : a 56K frame relay line.
>Tony Kimball writes:
>> You "upgraded" from 115k >-to-> 56k?
You forget that 115K is "burst" compressed traffic, where the 56K is
native line speed before compression.
>A 28.8K modem running at 115K async. RS-232 vs. a 56K sync. Frame relay
>is a big step up. :)
Not to mention that I have yet to see a situation where a 28.8K modem
does consistently more than about 56K async with real world data.
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