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- From: edhall@rand.org (Ed Hall)
- Newsgroups: comp.dcom.modems
- Subject: Re: Latency Question
- Message-ID: <3766@randvax.rand.org>
- Date: 4 Sep 92 20:19:44 GMT
- References: <1992Sep02.131155.9988@technix.mn.org> <1992Sep3.003250.14571@zip.eecs.umich.edu> <BOB.92Sep4104913@volitans.MorningStar.Com>
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- In article <BOB.92Sep4104913@volitans.MorningStar.Com> bob@MorningStar.Com (Bob Sutterfield) writes:
- >I'd like to know what number telnetping would report over CSLIP or
- >VJ-capable PPP between USR modems, but I don't have any here. Would
- >anyone care to try?
-
- A USR D/S talking with a USR V.32bis (both large-footprint models) using
- telnetping:
-
- min/average/max = 0.130/0.153/0.321
- min/average/max = 0.130/0.145/0.301
- min/average/max = 0.130/0.148/0.280
-
- Same connection, using "ping -s ..."
-
- PING ives: 56 data bytes
- . . . .
- min/avg/max = 150/180/210
- ------
- PING ives: 8 data bytes
- . . . .
- min/avg/max = 120/142/180
- ------
-
- This was run on a 486/33 running ESIX 4.0.3 using a beta streams PPP
- driver for System V R4 (based on the freeware Sun driver) plus the SAS
- async driver; it was talking to a SparcStation 2 running the freeware Sun
- driver, pl6, on one of its internal serial ports. Draft VJ header
- compression was used, plus PPP protocol and address compression.
-
- The phone connection was only about 12 miles, but was from PacBell
- (818) into GTE (310) CO's, and is frequently noisy. In fact, the
- USR's had downshifted one direction to 12000bps. (USR extended the
- V.32bis standard to allow split-speed operation).
-
- This link is in use several hours a day.
-
- I usually run rlogin in a window instead of firing up a remote xterm. I
- generally don't notice any difference in latency between the two, but
- starting a new xterm locally and then doing an rlogin is faster than
- starting up an xterm remotely. When I do run a remote xterm, the only
- time I notice latency is when I'm making a selection with the mouse. Even
- then, it isn't hard to get used to. XRN feels just a little sluggish,
- especially when a popup comes up for the first time. Even so, it is quite
- servicable. The only applications I avoid are image-display programs
- and things like FrameMaker which do (near-)constant screen updates.
- (I've fired up FrameMaker over the link to make last-minute edits, but
- I couldn't imagine doing anything more than that--perhaps if/when ISDN
- arrives...)
-
- -Ed Hall
- edhall@rand.org
-