From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Oct 2 22:51:41 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) id WAA20137 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:51:41 -0700 (PDT) Received: from freebie.lemis.com (gregl1.lnk.telstra.net [139.130.136.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.7/8.8.7) with ESMTP id WAA20125 for ; Thu, 2 Oct 1997 22:51:35 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from grog@localhost) by freebie.lemis.com (8.8.7/8.8.5) id PAA06348; Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:21:15 +0930 (CST) Message-ID: <19971003152114.25106@lemis.com> Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 15:21:14 +0930 From: Greg Lehey To: Steve Hovey Cc: Dave Hummel , questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slow telnet References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.84e In-Reply-To: ; from Steve Hovey on Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 02:15:14PM -0400 Organisation: LEMIS, PO Box 460, Echunga SA 5153, Australia Phone: +61-8-8388-8250 Fax: +61-8-8388-8250 Mobile: +61-41-739-7062 WWW-Home-Page: http://www.lemis.com/~grog Fight-Spam-Now: http://www.cauce.org Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 02:15:14PM -0400, Steve Hovey wrote: > > 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. No, this is incorrect. It has no effect on an IP connection. Greg > 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.