improving transport over lossy links ?

[Mike Tancsa]

At 03:32 PM 19/05/2006, Chuck Swiger wrote:

>Agreed.  If you can live with doing so, using an MTU of around 512 
>worked pretty well back in the days that I was using a 19200 baud 
>DOV (data over voice modem) that tended to experience line noise & 
>hence packet drops when you got an incoming voice call; if you've 
>got a high-noise environment, well, that would be similar.
>
>Of course, you should make sure that obvious fixes like replacing 
>phone cabling or re-punching down the phone lines at your demarc 
>(assuming you have 66 or 110 blocks) doesn't help.

Thanks, unfortunately, these are very remote sites in industrial and 
rural areas where xconnect boxes tend to be rusty posts.   I will try 
a lower MTU size to see how it deals with errors.

         ---Mike