[lug] PoPToP Performance

[Dan Ferris]

The upload speed for a cable modem is pretty slow ~ 384KBps for our 
modem here in Longmont.

Dan

Ryan Wheaton wrote:

> Hey guys,
> 
> I've finally gotten my PoPToP VPN server to accept connections 
> correctly, and all seems to be dandy, but it is unbelievably slow.  I 
> couldn't get exact Mb/s times, but when I tried to copy the CentOS ISOs 
> (about 1.8Gb) to a file share over the VPN, it was going to take about 
> 23 hours.  I have a cable modem at home, so i'd expect that performance 
> would be considerably worse for dial-up users.  I expected it to be 
> slower than physically being in the office, but not THAT much slower.  
> Is this kind of performance expected?  Is there any way to tune the 
> server to improve performance?
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -rtw
> 
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