On Saturday, "Gregory J. Feig" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> typed:
] try to make it work, and I couldn't even get their "about" page
] (approximately 14Kb) to download.......sheeesh..! any other
] ideas will be welcomed....
A while ago I was stuck on the 386DX40 whose comm ports where limited
to 9600bps [8250 chip on COM1/2 connected to my external 33.6; my
only internal modem is 2400bps <G>]. I found that downloading in the
background was the fastest way to download something that would
usually make arachne stop and stall. (Ctrl-Enter or Ctrl-Click)
The funny thing was, a while later I acquired some network cards, and
a 486 that was given to me I turned into an almost full-time linux
box [problem is its too loud to be on 24/7 :-( ]. Anyway... accessing
the internet through the LAN and IP_Masquerade was a lot faster! No
sleeps at all, except the sites where netscape had worse ones.
I had thought the 9600 would be better, since someone (Boanne??)
tried reducing speed from 115200 to 19200 (IIRC) and said it was
faster at the lower speed.
Maybe its epppd letting us down? But on the 486 laptop that most of
you would be aware I'm using right now, using 16550A UART there are
few problems.
[The 386 problem, I came to the conclusion that arachne was redrawing
the screen, and took longer than expected, so couldn't check the
(unbuffered) incoming data until it was too late and corrupted]
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