On Thu, 14 Nov 2002, at 6:06pm, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I'm on a 56K dialup now, and it's not all that much better. I still get > frequent lags of anywhere from a few seconds to occasionally a minute or > two where the connection simply sits there frozen.
That's bogus. I'm on what I think has to be NH's worst dialup feed -- 15 miles from the CO, cannot connect faster than 24 kilobits, takes three times to connect, drops carrier if the wind gusts -- and I don't have that problem. Occasionally, the modem will go off into hyperspace for a bit, and I have to sit and watch the EC and CS lights blink for a minute or two, but then two lines worth of text will spew out all at once and I'll be back in business. When I get lags like you're describing, I start running 'ping' and 'traceroute' commands, and will usually find a router well upstream of the modems that is having a nervous breakdown. > By that metric, I've never experienced a non-local network connection that > didn't suck. Not just on dialup, but on attbi, on many corporate networks > at various contract jobs where both offices were on T1 lines in separate > cities. How exceedingly odd. Even on 128 kilobit DSL feeds, interactive performance is good enough that I cannot really tell the difference between that and a LAN. We're talking about SSH for a shell prompt, right? You're not popping up an xterm over the feed, or something like that, are you? -- Ben Scott <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> | The opinions expressed in this message are those of the author and do not | | necessarily represent the views or policy of any other person, entity or | | organization. All information is provided without warranty of any kind. | _______________________________________________ gnhlug-discuss mailing list [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://mail.gnhlug.org/mailman/listinfo/gnhlug-discuss
