[ltp] Modem compression & kppp

[James Mckenzie]

Dean:

What type of modem?  With my USR PC-Card modem I had to set it up for
hardware compression, save it into the NVRAM and then use ATZ only.  Any
attempt to use compression 'on-the-fly' did not work under either Linux
or Windoze.

James Mckenzie

"Dean L.Hedin" wrote:

> Anyone know how to get ppp compression enabled with kppp?
>
> The throughput monitor on kppp does'nt seem to show a transfer rate
> greater than my connect speed (usually 44000, ~4.4k/sec).
>
> Compressed file transfers seem OK,  but when I am downloading
> large html pages or even large text files it still shows only ~4.4k
> transfer rate where I would expect to reap some compression
> benefit.
>
> I am using a 56k pcmcia modem.  I've tried various init strings
> to ensure modem compression is enabled (i.e, %C3 etc...)
>
> This is on a 600e with Red Hat 7.1
>
>
>
>
>
> ----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list -----
> The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
> http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html


----- The Linux ThinkPad mailing list -----
The linux-thinkpad mailing list home page is at:
http://www.bm-soft.com/~bm/tp_mailing.html