David said.... > > Ok, I'm way out of my area of expertise on this one, and I'm > hoping someone out there can help me. It seems that there > are issues regarding using the VT-MGR protocol over a WAN. The > network guy here says... > > "The issue is that the vt-mgr application which rides on tcp/ip) > uses a small packet and each one of the packets needs to be ack'ed. > This causes the vt-mgr session to be very slow. In the case where [snip] I don't know where there is a spot to set the packet size, but I have not had any problems with VT-MGR over a slow speed link. I have found the packets to be close to 500+ bytes when data is pumping down from the HP. We have one set of users (5) coming over a bridge with a 14.4k modem. The users have not complained, but I can see the packet breaks when the screen paints. It seems to be about three packets for a full screen (1920) char. That averages out to better that 600 data bytes/packet. I don't think that's bad. Now if you have lots of prompt and response with short amouts of data, then, you will get lots of short packets. I don't think you can do much about that. On the other hand, I too would be interested to see if packet size is settable anyplace. Eero - Are you still out there? or is someone else from HP (or in the know) out there on this issue? /alan [log in to unmask]