ppp and omniweb

[Ben Bernhard]

Hi,
I grabbed ppp from cs.orst.edu over the weekend and installed OmniWeb at home.
Everything works fine, except that the ppp link is _incredibly_ slow.

My speed problem does not seem to be due to the modem (14.4), but to some  
problem with ppp.

Here is an entry from pppstats:
    in   pack   comp uncomp    err |    out   pack   comp uncomp     ip
 26271     86     36     20      0  |  12523    113     52     31     30
     0      0      0      0      0  |      0      0      0      0      0
    26      1      0      0      0  |     14      1      0      0      1
  2436      4      3      1      0  |    236      5      3      2      0
  3765      6      4      2      0  |    122      6      4      2      0
  1502      7      2      2      0  |   1904     10      4      3      3
  1796      4      2      1      0  |    369      6      3      2      1
    86      2      1      0      0  |   1163      4      1      2      1
    84      2      0      1      0  |    637      3      2      0      1
     0      0      0      0      0  |    555      1      0      1      0
     0      0      0      0      0  |      0      0      0      0      0
  1582      6      3      1      0  |    781      7      3      2      2
   133      2      0      1      0  |   1797      6      3      2      1
    16      1      1      0      0  |    670      2      1      1      0
    25      1      0      0      0  |     14      1      0      0      1
   690      4      2      0      0  |    821      6      2      2      2
    61      1      0      1      0  |   1185      3      2      1      0
    42      2      1      0      0  |    682      3      1      1      1
     0      0      0      0      0  |      0      0      0      0      0
     0      0      0      0      0  |      0      0      0      0      0

During this interval, I was opening a page using omniWeb. When I open this page  
from school (the site I ppp to) it is very fast. So I assume that my modem  
should be a serious bottleneck. However, there are long periods where the  
lights aren't blinking much and (as shown above) not much data is moving  
through.
What gives?
Is there some problem with the alpha ppp that kills performance? I've fiddled  
with the compression options quite a bit, but these seems to have only a small  
effect on performance.

I don't think this is an omniweb problem. I get the same performance problems  
when I ftp or rlogin.

Helo is much appreciated.
Thanks,
Ben