>> In a side note, if you don't already have it set, doing "asyncmap 0"
>> should speed up your PPP connection (assuming your link can handle
>> those characters).  I'm not sure by how much, though.

> On average, it would cut down the number of characters actually
> transmitted by 32/(256+32)=1/9 for binary transfers, nothing at all
> for text files (which have no control characters).

You're making two assumptions that I think are invalid.

(1) You're assuming a flat frequency distribution of octets during
binary transfers - this is likely to be approximately true if the data
are compressed, but lots of binary transfers aren't.

(2) You're completely ignoring the non-payload portions of the packets.
IP and TCP headers have distinctly non-flat statistics when looked at
as octet streams.

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