Try dropping your serial speed down from 38400 to 9600 and see if
	that affects packet loss under X...

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On Mon, 1 Apr 1996, Nickolas Ray Ellson wrote:

> Hi David,
>
> >       Also try 'telnet www.teleport.com 80'
> >       then 'GET /'
> >       If you get the html for a web page ending
>
> ....
>
> >       then that indicates the link should be ok...
> >
> >       You might want to post this question to the list to see if anyone
> >       else has seen this problem (I dont use ppp :)
>
> Ok, I tried that under the shell, then in an XTerm window. I also tried PING in
> both.
>
> 1. telnet to www.teleport.com 80 from the shell gave me the whole web page in
> small bursts.
>
> 2. telnet from and XTERM the exact same way got me logged in, and gave nothing
> after typing GET /
>
> 3. Ping under shell to voicenet.com (a site on the other side of the US from me)
> gave me 4% packet loss out of 22 packets sent.
>
> 4. The same thing under XTerm gave me 42% packet loss with 23 packets sent.
>
> I also tried the whole thing with AmiTCP on the Amiga side... Telnet was too
> fast to read, and ping went 100 pings with no loss.
>
> So does this mean I have the PPP interface configured wrong and I am spilling my
> data? Also do the slower X11 results mean that X-Windows is not something to run
> across a 28.8 line?
>
> Any advice would be great. For your information I am setting my serial line as
> /dev/ttym0 and the speed at 57600 or 38400 (no difference). My MTU and MRU are
> at 1500 as my ISP requested. and I am using CRTSCTS in my options file.
>
> (For those not familiar with my original question, I was asking why Mosaic and
> Arena were not getting web-pages)
>
> Nick :)
>
>
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