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	Hi, This may be  a FAQ question but I have been unable to find
the answer to this question for a long time.
	WHY IS PPP BETTER THAN SLIP?

	To make this question less general I'll give a scenario that
I'm currently invloved in. 

	o I'm developing an application in which a 486 based
workstation connects to a central database (after dialing up to a
terminal server). A lot of data is interchanged between the user at
the workstationa and the central database over tcp socket connection.
Currently I'm using on the PC side SLIP provided by Chameleon with a
8250 UART talking to a Racal-Milgo Modem V42bis. That modem is capable
of giving sustained 14.4kbs and 38.2kbs burst. Using SLIP my
throughput (that is counting only usable data, not counting headers
and retransmission) is around 8kbs. which I believe is pretty good,
given thae fact that the database is not physically located in the
same place as the terminal server but is about 250 miles away
connected to the terminal server through a router and leased line.

	o Given this how much can PPP improve performance or what value
can it add to the whole process.

	o As a side note, I have before me a recent article in CW
titled "Remote user get TCP/IP sans LAN" which goes on to describe
this prduct called "SupperPPP" whic is "...layered over the Microsoft
Corp. Windows operating environment and Frontier's TCP/IP or any
industry-standard Open System Interconnect communications protocols."
	This product, it seems provides TCP/IP functionality over
serial lines and it "adds error correction, retransmission and speed
to the older SLIP for remote TCP/IP networking.....speedwise PPP could
translate into a tenfold improvement over SLIP"

	NOW is that really true. I mean I thought I was getting almost
all I could bet from my POTS line using SLIP. Can it really be true
that PPP is really that much superior to SLIP?


	Any help is appreciated.


Pankaj Tyagi
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