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From: Jonathan Morton <chromatix99@gmail.com>
To: Dane Medic <dm70dm@gmail.com>
Cc: "cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net"
	<cerowrt-devel@lists.bufferbloat.net>
Subject: Re: [Cerowrt-devel] PPP compression
Date: Sun, 17 Apr 2016 22:12:38 +0300	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <79641B7F-2530-4FE1-9FB3-1887242083BD@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CABsdH_FqT1BQn0CQ76KkUqJRCN0ksFWjPZPtYb6u6nYzSSBQFg@mail.gmail.com>


> On 17 Apr, 2016, at 21:14, Dane Medic <dm70dm@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> to turn it on or off?
> how to even change this option on Openwrt?
> I'm using pppoe in my setup.

PPP compression is potentially useful at analogue-modem or ISDN speeds, since even relatively small transfers such as Web pages (which are often uncompressed from the server) benefit from it.  It should be used as an alternative to modem compression, rather than in conjunction with it; double-compression tends to be counterproductive.

However, it is basically useless for PPPoE, which is typically used on higher-bandwidth links where latency is a bigger contributor to Web performance and only larger transfers (which tend to already be compressed) would benefit.  I suspect most PPPoE endpoints in the wild won’t accept compression negotiation.

The default is almost certainly off, and you should keep it that way.

 - Jonathan Morton


      reply	other threads:[~2016-04-17 19:12 UTC|newest]

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2016-04-17 18:14 Dane Medic
2016-04-17 19:12 ` Jonathan Morton [this message]

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