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From: tedm@agora.rdrop.com
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: How to improve FTP/Telnet performance
Date: 23 Aug 1996 06:15:21 GMT
Organization: Symantec Corporation
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In <4vf7pv$mto@adcmail.adc.com>, mad@adc.com (Michael A. Dorin) writes:
>
>How can I improve telnet and FTP performance.  Even though I am
>only a few hops away from my site, the performance of my ftp and
>telnet sessions is really bad.
>

There are a couple of good books on TCP/IP that you should get that discuss
network diagnostics.  For starters take a look at the ping and traceroute
commands and at least try to isolate the trouble to a single machine, or
network segment.