On Friday, July 10, 1998 12:03 PM, Christoph Badura [SMTP:bad@ora.de] wrote:
> netbsd@hgb-leipzig.de (NetBSD) writes:
> In hanse-ml.netbsd.help you write:
>
> >> There are 2 cases in which I have seen this... Both when there is a ppp
> >> link
> >> involved..
> >In this case, there is a PPP link (2xNovell ISDN router) involved.
> >> (I guess that ISDN may not help here)
>
> Usually, ISDN links have an MTU of 1500.
>
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But at 64Kbit a 1500 byte packet will have transmission time of 0.18 sec
at the same rate a 256 byte packet will have a transmission time of 0.032 sec

This gives me much better interactive performance at the cost of some 
throughput!

A.

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