Re: PPP & Compression: Useful or Useless?

[Nils Rennebarth <nils@nus.de>]

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On 6 Jun 1997, Rob Browning wrote:
>What I've been wondering about recently is under what, if any
>cirumstances it would be a good idea to disable modem level
>compression.  If all your're sending and receiving is gzipped data
>(like running a debian mirror), then would it actually make sense to
>turn off (some) modem compression?  This is because I've heard that
>the protocols in the modem may actually slow things down when handling
>already compressed data.
This is true for MNP5 compression. V.42bis compression disables itself when
data can't be compressed further. At least it is supposed to do so.

Nils

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