Re: Ping time differences

Ian McLaughlin (ian@okjunc.junction.net)
Sat, 31 May 1997 21:19:58 -0700 (PDT)

On Sat, 31 May 1997, Stephen Fisher wrote:

> > better ping times out of vernon-pm3 than vernon-pm1 or vernon-pm2. The
> > ComOS is the same in all three machines (3.3.3). They are on the same
> > ethernet segment, on the same class C. I hope that I'm not experiencing
> > latency because of the load on a PM2E with 30 modems as compared to one
> > with 10 modems. Has anyone else experienced anything like this?
>
> The first thing I would check is the baud rate on your serial ports of
> each PM. Having them 38.4 or 57.6k on one PM and 115.2k on another can
> make a noticable difference in ping rates. Make them all 115.2k.

All modems are set to 115200. This is the first thing I did when
customers started reporting this anomoly. I was running at 57.6. All
the Couriers were flashed to the same version of firmware several months ago.

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