Re: Internet Access thruough PPP.

Ken Lai (min-ken.lai@yale.edu)
Sun, 31 Jan 1999 18:36:04 -0500 (EST)

For one thing, I think 33.6K is kilobits, and I think you mean your top
speed never exceeds 5kB/s, as in kilobytes, which x8 would be 40kbps.

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?
>
> Rinendra
>

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