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From: james@jraynard.demon.co.uk (James Raynard)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: User PPP connection is s......l......o.......w......!
Date: 10 Jul 1996 21:19:15 -0000
Organization: A FreeBSD Box
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In article <01bb6e37.014cfd20$38673fcb@simonh.addease.com.au>,
Simon Harris <simonh@interconnect.com.au> wrote:
>I have successfully connected to my ISP using user PPP but have found it
>to be very slow in comparison to using PPP under Windows 95. This seems
>odd. In fact I would have expected the reverse to be true.

Try giving ppp the commands

deny pred1
disable pred1

Predictor1 compression is known to occasionally cause rather strange
things to happen with user PPP...

-- 
James Raynard, Edinburgh, Scotland
james@jraynard.demon.co.uk
http://www.freebsd.org/~jraynard/