Subj : FidoGazette Vol 13 n
To   : Sean Dennis
From : Rob Swindell
Date : Mon Sep 16 2019 22:25:49

  Re: FidoGazette Vol 13 n
  By: Sean Dennis to August Abolins on Mon Sep 16 2019 08:47 pm

 > Hi August,
 >
 >  AA> Besides.. the modem technology is fickle, and slow.
 >
 > I disagree.  In all of the data centers I have ever worked at, there has
 > -always- been one POTS connection as an emergency backup.  The POTS system
 > is actually much more reliable than the Internet physically but yes, it's
 > slow, which is why it fell out of favor.
 >
 > Telnet is actually quite slow when you get into the specifics of it and can
 > be rather unreliable.

Telnet is very little on top of TCP/IP. It is 99.9% as fast as every other 
TCP-based protocol and 100% as reliable.

 > Technically, using SSH is much more secure and
 > reliable than telnet.

More secure, sure. More reliable, no.


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