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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!munnari.OZ.AU!news.ecn.uoknor.edu!news.wildstar.net!cancer.vividnet.com!hunter.premier.net!news.mathworks.com!uunet!in2.uu.net!news.adc.com!mad From: mad@adc.com (Michael A. Dorin) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Re:How to improve FTP/Telnet performance Date: 23 Aug 1996 13:43:18 GMT Organization: ADC Telecommunications Lines: 29 Message-ID: <4vkchm$dkd@adcmail.adc.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: theoden.adc.com Summary: Re: How to improve FTP/Telnet performance Keywords: FTP Telent Performance : 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. : I have an FreeBSD box hookedup to an Assend Pipeline router via : an NE2000 card....The Pipeline is hooked to an ISDN connection, 2 : channels. >Have you taken the time to find out the source of the problem? Perhaps one >of the links between you and your site is overloaded? Perhaps your BSD box >is overloaded? Perhaps your ISDN link is saturated? >Your question is too vague. Please clarify it a bit more. Thanks everybody for your input. I spent a day talking to Tech Suport, my ISP, and finally a good friend who works on these ISDN Router Boxes, though not for Assend. Turns out that performance is how you look at it! The Pipeline has compression turned on as a default. This is good for transferring files, probably good (I'm not so sure about this) for HTTP, but bad for telnet/ftp. The compression confuses TCP/IP. I turned compression off, and now the telnet/ftp links fly! Now I have to evaluate what is appropriate for my site.