From owner-freebsd-isp Wed Oct 16 21:25:23 1996 Return-Path: owner-isp Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id VAA01982 for isp-outgoing; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:25:23 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mx.serv.net (mx.serv.net [199.201.191.10]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with ESMTP id VAA01975 for ; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from MindBender.serv.net by mx.serv.net (8.7.5/SERV Revision: 2.30) id VAA29885; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:25:08 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost.HeadCandy.com (michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1]) by MindBender.serv.net (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id VAA06607; Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:24:40 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <199610170424.VAA06607@MindBender.serv.net> X-Authentication-Warning: MindBender.serv.net: Host michaelv@localhost.HeadCandy.com [127.0.0.1] didn't use HELO protocol To: Nate Williams cc: Tony Kimball , CPELTIER@iectech.com, freebsd-isp@freebsd.org Subject: Re: pppd reliability In-reply-to: Your message of Wed, 16 Oct 96 13:43:44 -0600. <199610161943.NAA13166@rocky.mt.sri.com> Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:24:39 -0700 From: "Michael L. VanLoon -- HeadCandy.com" Sender: owner-isp@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk >> 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. ----------------------------------------------------------------------------- Michael L. VanLoon michaelv@MindBender.serv.net --< Free your mind and your machine -- NetBSD free un*x >-- NetBSD working ports: 386+PC, Mac 68k, Amiga, Atari 68k, HP300, Sun3, Sun4/4c/4m, DEC MIPS, DEC Alpha, PC532, VAX, MVME68k, arm32... NetBSD ports in progress: PICA, others... -----------------------------------------------------------------------------