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From: "Mark D. Smith" <msmith@revolution.3-cities.com>
Message-Id: <199612032238.OAA23824@revolution.3-cities.com>
Subject: Re: Why such poor PPP throughput?
To: wes@bogon.net (Wes Santee)
Date: Tue, 3 Dec 1996 14:38:09 -0800 (PST)
Cc: questions@freebsd.org
In-Reply-To: <199612032144.NAA22399@bogon.net> from "Wes Santee" at Dec 3, 96 01:44:57 pm
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> 
> 'Lo all.  I've been noticing over the past few months that the receive
> speed on my dedicated 28.8 PPP line has been less than stellar.  For
> example, when ftping a pre-compressed file from my ISP (1 hop), I get
> a maximum of 2.14 kb/sec throughput, with an average of about 1.94
> kb/sec.  
> 
> I've talked to my ISP about it several times but they're sure it's not
> happening at their end.  All that they've been able to determine is
> that I'm registering lots of incoming packet errors at the terminal
> server (which I can verify -- see below), that my connection speed
> seems to retrain down to ~24.4 alot, and that no other subscribers
> have mentioned low transfer speeds as being a problem.

Sounds like your phone line may be noisy.  I had that problem some time
back.

mark