Re: Internet Access thruough PPP.
Miguel Cruz (mnc@diana.law.yale.edu)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 19:30:45 -0500 (EST)
On Sun, 31 Jan 1999, Rinendra Shakya wrote:
> Hello. I am running Redhat 5.2 and I have a PPP account. I have noticed
> that when I am surfing the net, the connection is never faster that
> 5Kb/s. Usually, between 2 and 3 Kb/s. My modem is 33.6K. Can anyone
> explain why this is so? I thought Yale had an internet connection of
> 4Mb/s (or something like that). I also use the Yale proxy to get on the
> net.
>
> Or is there something I can do to tweak my system so that connection
> speed will be faster?
If you have a 33.6 modem, you can figure you usually get connections at
31.2 or 28.8 (at least I did), so 3K/s is pretty close to the fastest you
could possibly get. It doesn't matter how fast Yale's connection to the
internet is if your modem is the choke point.
miguel