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From: david@aogsquid.ucsd.edu (David Horwitt)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: ppp works, why so slow?
Date: 23 Jan 1996 23:35:57 GMT
Organization: IGPP,Scripps Institution of Oceanography
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>In article <4dro52$boo@osprey.unf.edu>,
>Cliff Addy <caddy@osprey.unf.edu> wrote:
>>An ftp transfer of a 218K file started off in a massive burst
>>where it finished the first 20K in about 5 seconds, then stalled and finally
>>I gave up. If I telnet into a site and do an ls, I'll get nothing for
>>several seconds, then a burst of a dozen lines, another huge pause, another
>>dozen lines, etc.
>>
I saw similar behavior ("bursty" FTP that started fast then slowed
way down) with a SLIP connection where my modem wasn't setting up
compression nor error correction parameters correctly. When I reconfigured
my modem parameters, FTP transfer times improved tremendously.
David Horwitt
dhorwitt@ucsd.edu