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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!wupost!gumby!newsxfer.itd.umich.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!las1.iastate.edu!flipk From: flipk@iastate.edu (Phil Knaack) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Subject: Re: How many users could a SLIP/PPP support? Date: 31 May 94 21:12:05 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 26 Message-ID: <flipk.770418725@las1.iastate.edu> References: <2sfslb$htb@deathstar.cris.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: las1.iastate.edu In <2sfslb$htb@deathstar.cris.com> Pan@deathstar.cris.com (Pan) writes: >How many simultaneous users could a single 14.4K SLIP/PPP connection support >before serious performance degradation? Any first hand experiences? At my apartment we are running a 14.4 SLIP connection with four NetBSD boxes, with three of us in the apartment. This serves us very well for the regular TCP stuff and very limited Xwindows apps (like emacs, zephyr), but should one of us start ftp'ing or if sendmail kicks in a TCP transfer, the line becomes exceedingly lagged. But of course this is due to the way SLIP queues up packets in the kernel that the priorities of TCP over UDP don't work well. I suspect PPP handles that better, but I've never tried it. In any case, three of us are pretty happy on a 14.4 connection. >thanks >John Fricker >Jefferson FreeNet >pan@cris.com Cheers, Phil -- Phil Knaack flipk@iastate.edu flipk@cs.iastate.edu 1304 Florida Apt #3 flipk@blade.vorpal.com flipk@vorpal.com Ames IA 50014 " .. it wasn't me, honest!"