Date: Fri, 3 Oct 1997 08:59:55 -0400 (EDT) From: Steve Hovey <shovey@buffnet.net> To: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com> Cc: Dave Hummel <hummel@www.buffalostate.edu>, questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: slow telnet Message-ID: <Pine.BSI.3.95.971003085933.28200G-100000@buffnet11.buffnet.net> In-Reply-To: <19971003152114.25106@lemis.com>
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On Fri, 3 Oct 1997, Greg Lehey wrote: > On Thu, Oct 02, 1997 at 02:15:14PM -0400, Steve Hovey wrote: > > > > I notices here starting with 2.1R that an rlogin would be slow in direct > > inverse proportion to the stty baud rate setting. > > > > So at a $ prompt type stty 9600 and see if it suddenly speeds up. > > No, this is incorrect. It has no effect on an IP connection. It does for rlogin - and is most noticible on slower modems. > > Greg > > > > On Thu, 2 Oct 1997, Dave Hummel wrote: > > > >> Hi, > >> > >> I'm connected to the internet at 14.4. Yes, I know this is extremely slow. > >> The thing is, it seems like wu-ftp and apache are very responsive to > >> outside connections. The problem is that telnet is very slow coming in or > >> going out. Connections are from/to Red Hat Linux, Digital Unix, VMS and > >> NT. I really don't expect high performance because of obvious things like > >> crappy old phone lines etc. There does seem to be some disparity, however, > >> between the performance of telnet as opposed to ftp and http all things > >> condidered. > >> > >> I can live with some key lag, but I often have to wait five or more > >> seconds for any response at the other end. I have disabled tcp_extensions > >> which is about the only piece of advice I could find in the mailing lists, > >> and network traffic to my machine is pretty much null. > >> > >> _Any_ advice on what else to do about this will be appreciated even if > >> it's "you can't do anything" or "get a better connection". If, however, > >> there is a configuration trick or two that I'm ignorant of, this is even > >> better :) - Just give me a hint on where to start looking. > >
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