Chris comments:

>The posix shell is so slow in reading my keyboard input that I am
>forced to type _slowly_ otherwise characters will get lost at random.


One thing to check is that you're not getting line editing mode set by
default. This is single character IO stuff that as we know, performs
real bad over any type of link. To disable this, type:

set +o vi

To enable it:

set -o vi



Regards,


M.