Path: utzoo!utgpu!news-server.csri.toronto.edu!rpi!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!uakari.primate.wisc.edu!samsung!nstar!larry From: larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems Subject: Re: T1000 Message-ID: <1991May08.190532.24424@nstar.rn.com> Date: 8 May 91 19:05:32 GMT References: <585@fudd.dataco.UUCP> <35@mich-ns.Michigan.COM> <1991Apr27.233044.22434@nstar.rn.com> <1991May01.021126.1382@nstar.rn.com> <1991May07.180138.1951@nstar.rn.com> <1991May8.004823.8012@telebit.com> Organization: NSTAR, Indiana's LARGEST BBS 219-289-0287/317-251-7391 Lines: 24 brian@telebit.com (Brian Lloyd) writes: >larry@nstar.rn.com (Larry Snyder) writes: >>but try using PEP for a SLIP connection - it is the pits - >Actually, PEP works pretty well with SLIP or PPP that supports Van >Jacobson IP/TCP header compression. The header compression keeps the >length of interactive packets (TELNET, rlogin) below the threshold >where PEP switches to large packets. This makes interactive activity >quite palatable. This has turned out to be a boon to people using the >NetBlazer and a PEP modem (TB+, T1000, or T2500) for ad-hoc >international IP connections. we've tried it with traditional slip - and talk about slow -- throughput was about 10% slower than with a 2400 baud modem! v.32bis really brought the throughput up -- Larry Snyder, NSTAR Public Access Unix 219-289-0287/317-251-7391 HST/PEP/V.32/v.32bis/v.42bis regional UUCP mapping coordinator {larry@nstar.rn.com, ..!uunet!nstar.rn.com!larry}