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From: feisal@tstt.net.tt (Feisal Mohammed)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: PPP: horrible telnet latency with ftp
Date: 22 Nov 1996 01:21:50 GMT
Organization: University of the West Indies
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In article <572ue9$lqv@fox.comm.net>, Pisces Iscariot wrote:
>I'm running user mode PPP.  Everything works just fine except that
>latency over, say, a telnet connection becomes unbelievably bad when
>I am also doing an ftp transfer.  I've tried messing with the MRU, to
>no effect.  Any other ideas?
[snip]
I don't understand, if you are transferring a large amount of data
through the PPP link (via ftp) shouldn't your telnet session slow
down? This has nothing to do with MRU. Did I interpret your
question correctly?

-Feisal
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Feisal Mohammed <feisal@tstt.net.tt>   Ph: 1-809-662-2002 x3171
Dept. of Mechanical Engineering, University of the West Indies.