[lug] PoPToP Performance

[Lee Woodworth]

On 16 Feb 2004 at 12:42, Calvin Dodge wrote:

> On Mon, Feb 16, 2004 at 09:37:10AM -0700, Ryan Wheaton wrote:
> > 
> > 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 
1800 MByte / 23hr = 21.7 KByte / s = 173.9 KBit / s data transfer 
rate. There is some overhead so the actual wire bit rate would be 
higher.