TCP experts - improving dial-up performance?

[Andrew Beals]

On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 4:38 PM, Jonathan Hutchins <hutchins at tarcanfel.org>wrote:

> On Saturday 25 June 2011 10:09:28 am Shawn C. Powell wrote:
>
> > Yeah, so I have dial-up.  Stop laughing. :)
> >
> > I would like some advice on making the best of my slow dial-up
> connection.
>
> For file transfers, you might be able to use kermit or zmodem.  They have
> packet retransmission capabilities designed to work over links with losses
> and lag.  iirc Kermit was designed to be used over satellite links where
> lag
> was the bigger problem and zmodem was developed to cope with dropped
> packets.
>
> Getting the remote system to speak one of those protocols will be the
> challenge.
>
>
There's xmodem s/w for unix out there in the wild with my name on it.
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