Date: Wed, 16 Oct 1996 21:49:59 -0700 (PDT) From: Tom Samplonius <tom@sdf.com> To: Tony Tam <ttam@mail.iidpwr.com> Cc: hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: SLIP speed Message-ID: <Pine.NEB.3.94.961016214226.3249A-100000@misery.sdf.com> In-Reply-To: <96Oct16.180701pdt.15362@mail.iidpwr.com>
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On Wed, 16 Oct 1996, Tony Tam wrote: > Hackers, > > Could anybody tell me what is the minimum response time on an SLIP > or PPP circuit in order to make TELNET works reliable? > > -- > Yours truly, Well, telnet should be reliable with any functioning network. Any network that gives you better than 300ms round-trip time as reported by ping, is pretty usable with telnet, anything under 200ms is best. Round-trip time just for an idle 28.8k slip/ppp modem link is about 160ms. Modems are just dogs for latency. An idle 56k line is around 30ms rtt. Tom
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