[ale] KPPP/modem init string & fonts under web browser.

[Brian J. Dowd]

Go to http://homepage.tinet.ie/~leslie/testpage/testpg5.htm from both OS's and
see what your actual modem throughput is.
-Brian

> I installed Mandrake 6.1 on a system last night and set up a dial-up
> connection to the I-net.  Not something that I had ever done before under
> Linux and I am very pleased with how little time it really took.  I have one
> little question.  I noticed that web pages load slower than on my Windoze
> machine.  Now, I know it's not the OS so it must be the settings in the KPPP
> program.  Specifically, my guess is that I need a good init string for my
> modem.  It seems to me that KPPP just loads a generic string.  I have a USR
> 56k V.90 modem (external).  Anyone have any suggestions about settings under
> KPPP that would improve performance??
>
> Second question, I have noticed in the past (on several machines actually)
> that on many web pages under Netscape/Linux the fonts are all screwy.  It is
> really tiny and really hard to read.  Now, I have even found some pages
> under IE and Windoze that do the same thing.  Any suggestions???  Its
> driving me crazy!!
>
> Thanks
>
> Keith Murphy