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Date:      Sun, 20 Oct 1996 18:26:02 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.de>
To:        phk@critter.tfs.com (Poul-Henning Kamp)
Cc:        chat@FreeBSD.ORG (FreeBSD Chat)
Subject:   Re: SLIP speed
Message-ID:  <199610201626.SAA13294@freebie.lemis.de>
In-Reply-To: <6356.845665751@critter.tfs.com> from Poul-Henning Kamp at "Oct 18, 96 09:09:11 pm"

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Poul-Henning Kamp writes:
> In message <199610181505.KAA02959@brasil.moneng.mei.com>, Joe Greco writes:
>>> >Does anybody care to try 300 or 110 baud IP?  :-)
>>>
>>> NO!  Not again.  I have tried that about 40 Mb too much.
>>
>> Are you referring to the speeds you get doing IP across the Atlantic,
>> or did you really do 300 baud IP?  :-) :-) :-)
>
> Yes, about 300baud from Mexico and Brazil to Denmark.
>
> Avg rate for ftp was about 300 bps :-(

That's not too bad.  I was in Korea in August, and when we could keep
ftp running at all, we ran at about 4 bps.  A weekend for a file.  The
transpacific lines must be the worst I have seen.

> CAD drawings for a cement factory if you insist on knowing.

No, I don't insist :-)

Greg



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