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From: cracraft@ccicpg.UUCP (Stuart Cracraft)
Newsgroups: comp.protocols.tcp-ip
Subject: Re: Internet Uselessness
Message-ID: <1168@ccicpg.UUCP>
Date: Fri, 10-Jul-87 12:24:37 EDT
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Posted: Fri Jul 10 12:24:37 1987
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In article <8707090344.aa02151@SEM.BRL.ARPA> dpk@BRL.ARPA (Doug Kingston) writes:
>Well, I am again trying to use the Internet to accomplish real
>work and finding it almost impossible due to the almost none-existent
>throughput.
>
There have been some real performance problems lately. Multi-second
delays between characters on TAC access from a TAC local to the area
code of the destination host.

>Lest some of you misunderstand, there are parts of the Internet
>that are reasonably healthy, such as the MILNET proper...
>But the MILNET is only a part of the much larger Internet.  
>The MILNET alone is of little use to us if we cannot talk 
>successfully to the rest of the Internet.
>
The situation described above occurred on a MILNET TAC.
Response from NIC and the host (a central hub) indicated
that it was a known problem that BBN is actively working on.
TAC performance has improved somewhat since then though
multi-second delays still occur, frequently.

>...
>Who do we have to push to get this fixed?
Talk with NIC and BBN.

    Stuart