Re: 14.4kbps PPP link?
* Brian May <bam@debian.org> writes:
> Sometimes pinging the remote host seems to provoke the data transfer
> to start again (or is this coincidence?)
I have seen this as well, with the 14.4k of my parents (Doze´95).
At my parents, I had multiple Netscape connections open, and all of
them would stall. Then, "Stop"ping transfer and reloading it would
make all connections react again. I have not pinged or anything, but
maybe any new request tells the remote host you are alive.
It seems that the remote host thinks that since you are accept things
so slowly, it just pauses for a while.
I seem to remember I was using different locations back then with the
14.4k, and all of them became respondent again after a reload request
on *one* location. So it could have been a host on the route that was
shared by my connections that was stalling transfer, i.e. one close
to me, *if* I remember correctly.
[...]
> Good point. However, I am worried I would have the same problems with a
> faster modem, too.
With 56k all goes well for me. But then, it´s Debian this time. If
it doesn´t go well, I´m usually thinking that my provider´s machines
just have short-term problems.
Colin
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