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Re: slow ISP access

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From: Regit Young
Date: Fri, 01 Jan 1999 00:00
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Michael,

Check the followings:
1.)baud rate: man setserial;
2.)mtu: man pppd;
3.)route windows sizing, mss: man route;

For your reference, me setting:
baudrate:115600
mtu:576
mss:256
window sizing:2144

Regards
Regit

michael drowns wrote:
> 
> I set up ISP PPP connection through netcfg.
> I set the domain and the nameservers and checked
> the resolv.conf and nsswitch.conf files to make
> sure I look to dns for host names, and that the
> proper dns server address is entered.  I connect
> at 38400 according to the ISP, but netscape shows
> fewer than 100 bytes/sec transfer, and frequently
> stalls.  The same ISP works fine from Windows 95.
> Is there a way to check if I'm getting
> lots of NACKed packets?  Someone suggested that
> I remove AppleTalk and IPCX and rebuild the kernel,
> but I don't see how that would help.  Has anybody
> had similar problems?  Can you suggest anything?
> 
> Thanks, Michael
> 
> p.s. I had to initialize the modem for NO ECHO
> because I was getting a message about not 8-bit
> clean, every bit 7 is zero with echo enabled.
> Is this common?

-- 
Regit Young : regit@wantree.com.au
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