ISC 2.2 SL/IP throughput?

[Larry Snyder]

src at scuzzy.mbx.sub.org (Heiko Blume) writes:

>can someone tell me what throughput i can expect with sl/ip over
>a modem connection with HST modems (14400bps)? we talk to the modems
>at 19200 and use hardware flow control (FAS with 16550 chips). we did
>a ftp and the throughput was ~0.2 KB/s on a 600KB file, which is unacceptable.
>did we do something wrong? (of course we did sldialup/attach 19200 ttyF01).

SlIP requires the use of duplex modems for best throughput, and the HST
is limited by the baud rate of the "back channel"
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