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On Mon, 17 Apr 1995, Stan Jones wrote:

> Here in Anchorage (a city of about 240,000, with espresso bars and
> everything) CompuServe access is at 2400 baud. I wonder if Internet access
> will be much of a selling point -- at any price -- at such slow speed?
You would want to run Slip with VanJacobson Compression, that lowers the 
overhead to about six bytes/packet.  The upside is that you can read your 
mail WHILE you download (ftp) files.  Also set your MTU to about 268 bytes.
(that lets the telnet packets through between the ftp packets)

I've used IP at 2400 baud.  It's ugly, but it works.

> Stan Jones
Rex Ballard

From rballard@cnj.digex.net Wed Apr 26 21:39:37 1995
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