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It seems that when I connect using PPPD to my local ISP, it runs quite
slow.  To prove this, I connected via minicom, and downloaded a 5 meg
file over a 28.8 connection.  It took a little over 15 minutes to
download, where as ftping from my ISP a 1.3 meg file took 31 minutes.  
Now is this normal, or have I miss configured something?

: It seems that when I connect using PPPD to my local ISP, it runs quite
: slow.  To prove this, I connected via minicom, and downloaded a 5 meg
: file over a 28.8 connection.  It took a little over 15 minutes to
: download, where as ftping from my ISP a 1.3 meg file took 31 minutes.  
: Now is this normal, or have I miss configured something?

I assume you used zmodem or something similar with minicom?  PPP does
add some overhead to the communication and the download so it will
definitely be slower than something like zmodem over a non-networked
connection.  Twice as long though does seem to be a bit much.

Rick

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: It seems that when I connect using PPPD to my local ISP, it runs quite
: slow.  To prove this, I connected via minicom, and downloaded a 5 meg
: file over a 28.8 connection.  It took a little over 15 minutes to
: download, where as ftping from my ISP a 1.3 meg file took 31 minutes.  
: Now is this normal, or have I miss configured something?

Yeah, thats true, but, for example, if I ping another 28.8 using pppd I get 180ms to 220ms.  
When I do mine from the same location <same amounts of hops etc> it comes to 380ms to
450ms.  Now what could cause this?

: It seems that when I connect using PPPD to my local ISP, it runs quite
: slow.  To prove this, I connected via minicom, and downloaded a 5 meg
: file over a 28.8 connection.  It took a little over 15 minutes to
: download, where as ftping from my ISP a 1.3 meg file took 31 minutes.  
: Now is this normal, or have I miss configured something?

take around 12 minutes. Even then, with PPP it will automatically be
slower since there is IP overhead involved that isn't during a straight
download; However, I've experience GREATER throughput on certain files
via PPP than zmodem (usually text)... but then my carrier is 26.4K.

bill

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: Yeah, thats true, but, for example, if I ping another 28.8 using pppd I get 180ms to 220ms.  
: When I do mine from the same location <same amounts of hops etc> it comes to 380ms to
: 450ms.  Now what could cause this?

Do you know what media paths exist between you and the other connection?
You could be crossing say 288 to T1 to 56K to 288... or other really odd
connection types. It also HIGHLY depends on traffic at the time of the
test. You never know what is going on the segments you might have to go
through. But even if the physical hop count is say 3 between you and the
other... the actual hop might be more since dynamic load factors might
play into account via the routers involved.

bill

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: It seems that when I connect using PPPD to my local ISP, it runs quite
: slow.  To prove this, I connected via minicom, and downloaded a 5 meg
: file over a 28.8 connection.  It took a little over 15 minutes to
: download, where as ftping from my ISP a 1.3 meg file took 31 minutes.  
: Now is this normal, or have I miss configured something?

Personally, I believe there is something that Minicom does right with
the tty setup which allows maximum throughput... I always first start up
Minicom and then quit without reset / dialing out, then start up
ppp... things move along briskly thereafter.

You see numerous messages about how slow PPP is, but none of the gurus
address this symptom / issue...

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: : It seems that when I connect using PPPD to my local ISP, it runs quite
: : slow.  To prove this, I connected via minicom, and downloaded a 5 meg
: : file over a 28.8 connection.  It took a little over 15 minutes to
: : download, where as ftping from my ISP a 1.3 meg file took 31 minutes.  
: : Now is this normal, or have I miss configured something?
: Personally, I believe there is something that Minicom does right with
: the tty setup which allows maximum throughput... I always first start up
: Minicom and then quit without reset / dialing out, then start up
: ppp... things move along briskly thereafter.
: You see numerous messages about how slow PPP is, but none of the gurus
: address this symptom / issue...

        I heard using TERM instead is better because its faster than PPP.

        If you got a shell account, you might want to set up TERM
networking.  I might do that myself ... either use that or SLIRP.

Arcadio

I've recently upgraded to kernel 1.3.45 with almost the latest ppp
(2.2.2c ???) and have vastly improved throughput vs. 1.2.13 & 2.1.x ppp.

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