Subject: Re: wavelan pcmcia card vs. telnet
To: None <current-users@netbsd.org>
From: Peter Seebach <seebs@plethora.net>
List: current-users
Date: 02/07/2000 13:12:49
In message <200002071901.OAA05083@jefferson.cmf.nrl.navy.mil>, "David W. Talmag
e" writes:
>
>If you use the wavelan ethernet card in your laptop, would you please write to
> 
>me?  I'd like to know if you can use telnet with them.
>
>I ask because I've tried telnet over a Metricom wireless IP modem and it's 
>unusable because of the delay between pressing a key and seeing the result.  I
> 
>can tolerate it for a little while if I'm just viewing a text file but I'd go 
>insane if I had to use it with emacs.

Okay, I just have to ask my superstitious question:  Does this change if you
turn off RFC 1323 support?  I had a problem where telnet was unusable (30
seconds or so of delay on individual keys) because of that.

-s