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- From: VANCE@TGV.COM (L. Stuart Vance)
- Newsgroups: vmsnet.networks.tcp-ip.multinet
- Subject: Re: TCP/IP via PSI **REAL** slow?
- Message-ID: <727943695.281930.VANCE@TGV.COM>
- Date: Sun, 24 Jan 1993 22:34:55 -0800 (PST)
- Organization: TGV, Incorporated
- X-Gateway-Source-Info: Mailing List
- Lines: 23
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- >We may (in the next two months) try to use Multinet's TCP/IP encapsulated
- >within X.25 to gateway traffic from our Holland office to our local Colorado
- >office. The reason we want to try something sooo boneheaded is because the
- >X.25 bridges are DNA traffic relays only (I may not be explaining this very
- >well). What we have is a VAX with PSI sending/receiving data to/from a DEC
- >DEMSB (I hope that's the right letters) on both sides of the world. What's
- >better is this existing link is only 9600 baud! Could you laugh any harder?
- >:-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-( :-(
- >
- >Anyway, is this doomed? *OR*, with huge performance delays assumed, will
- >it work? Is anyone out there trying something similar (God help you)?
- >With any luck, upper management will spring for extra $$ for a faster X.25
- >link at the very least.
-
- Your delays/performance problems will be twofold: the low bandwidth, and the
- high latency (round trip time). TELNET will be rather painful because of the
- latter, FTP painful because of the former. It's certainly not hopeless.
- Things will function, but you'll need to set your expectations rather low from
- the start. The main thing is to bring up the link in "test" mode first to see
- how good or bad it will be before turning it over to your users.
-
- Regards!
- -----Stuart
-