[47695] in Hotline Meeting
Re: Speed of Telnet is too slow
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (John Hawkinson)
Wed Jun 2 12:36:48 1999
Message-Id: <199906021636.MAA23316@mary-kay-commandos>
To: Shengfu Yang <sfyang@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 27 May 1999 12:44:33 EDT."
<374D7671.FCB4F009@MIT.EDU>
Date: Wed, 02 Jun 1999 12:36:34 EDT
From: John Hawkinson <jhawk@MIT.EDU>
[ Copied to f_l, hotline, sendpubs, and accounts, but removed them from
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| Date: Thu, 27 May 1999 12:44:33 -0400
Sorry for the delay here, your question didn't quite go where folks
were expecting to deal with it.
| To: sipb@MIT.EDU, f_l@MIT.EDU, hotline@MIT.EDU, sendpubs@MIT.EDU,
| accounts@MIT.EDU
Specifically, sipb@mit.edu is the Student Information Processing Board,
and we're happy to answer random questions, however
f_l are the Athena Faculty Liasons
hotline are responsible for Athena Cluster hardware
sendpubs are responsible for delivering printed publications
accounts are responsible for creating and managing athena accounts
none of which are really good places to ask this sort of question. In addition
to asking sipb, you might also have tried the standard athena support path
of running the "olc" program and typing "ask".
On to your question.
| Recently, about 2 weeks, I felt that the network to China became
| extremely slow. I use TELNET. Sometime it is unstandably slow. My friend
| in other university connected the same address at the same time with me
| to check it, the network just works fine. So I guess something wrong
| with our system in MIT.
|
| Can anyone check this for me? Or it is because of the setup of my
| account?
It's almost certainly not the setup of the account.
It's not possible to check this without more information, though.
There are a wide variety of different network connections even
between the same pair of countries. We'd need to know the name and IP
address of both the machine you are connecting to and the machine you
are connecting from.
Additionally, if you had measurements of round-trip-time using the "ping"
program between the two machines, that might also be revealing.
I think it might be easiest if you provide the information by
running the olc program and asking a question, but you're also free to
just reply to this email.
--jhawk
