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Re: (ASCEND) Net Medic and My Max 4K



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On Sat, 9 Aug 1997, Eric Reeves wrote:

> I've read up just a little bit on what LQM is (Line Quality Monitor), but
> I'm not seeing why it would improve performance across a connection.  I
> didn't do much research on this, so if I'm missing something completely
> obvious, fergive me.  If you wouldn't mind going into a little bit of
> detail regarding LQM for me, that'd be great.  Any info appreciated in
> advance.

The reason it works is that echo-requests can't be buffered. Every time an
echo-request gets transmitted, this apparently forces the Max to dequeue
anything waiting for a particular connection.

This has the side-effect of keeping latency down.

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