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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!nntp.coast.net!news.kei.com!newsfeed.internetmci.com!usenet.eel.ufl.edu!eng.ufl.edu!usenet.ufl.edu!livia.unf.edu!usenet.unf.edu!osprey.unf.edu!caddy From: caddy@osprey.unf.edu (Cliff Addy) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: ppp works, why so slow? Date: 20 Jan 1996 21:51:30 GMT Organization: University of North Florida Lines: 18 Message-ID: <4dro52$boo@osprey.unf.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: osprey.unf.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] I've set up dialout ppp on a 2.1 system. User ppp would not work correctly and noone could help me, so I did it using pppd. I use tip to make the connection and start ppp on the other end. I then suspend tip and start pppd on my end. It works, in that I can ping other sites on the net, telnet, ftp, etc, but it's incredibly slow. It seems something is wrong in the configuration that causes packets to be held up. For example, an ftp transfer of a 2K file takes about 30 seconds of real time, yet ftp reports it transferred the file in 0.2 seconds. 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. Does anyone know how to correct this problem or even how to diagnose it? Cliff