When I was ranting about how bad the I/O had gotten it turns out ns/vt was
part of the culprit, the other was running over a VPN to the office from
home. Changing to telnet helped a lot. I did a little playing around with
hardwired and dial up connections and found that your trusty old dtc-48 with
a hardwired terminal was the best, followed by telnet, and in a very distant
3rd was ns/vt.

-Lane

on 1/24/01 6:50 PM, Ted Ashton at [log in to unmask] wrote:

> Just happened across one more data point worth mentioning.  I've been doing
> quite a bit of work in vi from home (via PPP).  Vi, as a number of you already
> know, uses single-character reads.  On NS/VT over a slow modem, these can been
> painfully slow.  So I tried switching to Telnet.  Much improved, thank you.
> It appears that Telnet is a significantly lighter protocol if the data is
> traveling at one character per packet.
>
> FWIW,
> Ted
> --
> Ted Ashton ([log in to unmask]), Info Sys, Southern Adventist University