[pptp-server] ppp speed

[Charlie Brady]

On Tue, 30 Oct 2001, JOE wrote:

> sorry to rehash this, i have on the server end a machine that has a
> 700+k connection full duplex, and a client machine that has a 300+k
> connection but things seem very slow.  both machines have very fast
> hardware.

But what's the network connection like them like? Any congestion?

> i've read in prior posts that you can compress data through the
> tunnel, will this speed things up significantly?

PoPToP does not support the (proprietary) MPPC compression protocol.

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