Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-27 Thread BG Lim
Hi, Thanks for the letter. However, my modem speed is set to 115000. Actually, the reason for all this, is that I read somewhere, that linux is able to set latencies for various programs, since it is so network centric. And that article mentioned that telnet is set to low-latency, so that it

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-27 Thread Martin Bialasinski
BL == BG Lim [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: BL changed that. I've played with the MTU and MRU settings. Currently, its BL 296 for both. No difference whatsoever. Most likely, your provider demands a setting for MTU, so the values you specify have no influence. You can check this with

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-27 Thread Michele Bini
On Thu, 27 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote: Hi, Thanks for the letter. However, my modem speed is set to 115000. pppd is _NOT_ able to use that speed and will fall back to another, much slower one (28000?) !!! (at least my (Bo) version of pppd, to check against this look at the output of plog, you

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-27 Thread Michele Bini
Sorry, I mistyped the speed. It is _exactly_ 57600, or pppd will fall back to a much more slow speed (28000?). ^ On Wed, 26 Aug 1998, Michele Bini wrote: Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was the only

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-26 Thread Michele Bini
I connect to my ISP with Win95 as well (cos there is no NetMeeting on Linux :-(, and it is much more responsive. Maybe you have made the same error I made: to connect to my ISP I wrongly specified 38400 as modem speed since it was the only speed I found in the documentation (manual pages

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-24 Thread Jay Barbee
I connect to my ISP with Win95 as well (cos there is no NetMeeting on Linux :-(, and it is much more responsive. I had a problem with latency once and it was due to name resolution, and the particular order I had DNS' in my system. With the host that you are having the lag with, setup a

Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-23 Thread BG Lim
I connect to my ISP with a 33.6kbps modem. My problem is that I get very poor response when I use Telnet. I believe that this is due to latency problems. I've read somewhere that in Linux, telnet is set to low-latency to improve responsiveness. How to find out what the settings are on my system.

Re: Latency problems with Telnet

1998-08-23 Thread BG Lim
I connect to my ISP with Win95 as well (cos there is no NetMeeting on Linux :-(, and it is much more responsive. BG On Sat, 22 Aug 1998, George Bonser wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 1998, BG Lim wrote: This poor responsiveness is bad when nothing else is using the ppp link, and very bad if I