I have been allowing my PPP connection to my ISP to "negotiate" the link. Taking a look at things with 'pppstats' I get the following. Shouldn't a majority of these packets be getting compressed? sierra:/usr/users/randy => pppstats IN PACK COMP UNCOMP ERR | OUT PACK COMP UNCOMP IP 7232565 22200 0 0 0 | 1574727 21636 0 0 21636