Re: Determining modem speed, packet loss, other diagnostics etc

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From: Peter McDermott
Date: Sat, 01 Jul 1995 00:00

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In article <jxc-1906950509420001@ppp5.ausom.oz.au>,
jxc@ausom.oz.au (Jason Chuen) wrote:

>peter@petermc.demon.co.uk (Peter McDermott) wrote:
>
>> I use TCP Monitor for modem speed -- that displays current speeds
>> graphically
>> and gives a pretty accurate readout when compared with Anarchie or
>> Netscape,
>> and TCP Watcher for checking packet loss, resends, etc. etc. There is also
>> a patch to PPP Config that lets you know what speed your modem connects
>> to Demon at.
>> 
>> All this good stuff is on Demon's FTP site.
>
>This sounds really good, except that I can't access ftp.demon.co.uk
>because it insists on reverse DNS mapping which isn't configured properly
>for us yet. Archie returns nothing, so is there another site where we can
>get this?

Sure -- it's all available at info-mac (in the comm directory, probably
under TCP or MacTCP)

I'm sure there's an Aussie Info-Mac as well?

--
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From: peter@petermc.demon.co.uk (Peter McDermott)
Subject: Re: Determining modem speed, packet loss, other diagnostics etc
Date: 1995/07/01
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