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From: brian@shift.lan.awfulhak.org (Brian Somers)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc
Subject: Re: Slow PPP connection using FreeBSD 2.2.2
Date: Mon, 14 Jul 1997 02:03:55 +0100
Organization: Awfulhak Ltd.
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In article <01bc8e44$ac799220$0d35e5cd@kevin.tssoftware.com>,
"Kevin Southern" <krs@cise.ufl.edu> writes:
> I recently installed FreeBSD and set up the ppp daemon for dialing into my
> ISP server. Everything works all right, except for one small detail. The
> connection is way too slow. Using the ppp command from the prompt I can
> transmit FTP files at about 1.14k/sec. Interestingly enough, using pppd
> increases the speed to 2.2k/sec. Under Windows I got transmission speeds
> of close to 3k/sec. I've tried decreasing the MTU from 1500 to 700, but
> this didn't do me any good. Does anyone have any ideas about what might
> speed up my connection? Thanks.
Get http://www.freebsd.org/~brian/ppp-2.2-970701.tar.gz. Lots
of things were fixed - specifically to do w/ pred1 compression
(and a small problem w/ vj compression).
> --Kevin
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Brian <brian@awfulhak.org> <brian@freebsd.org>
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