Subj : Deliberately, purposefully slow telnet
To   : fission
From : Darklord
Date : Fri Jun 23 2023 11:29:50

On 20 Jun 23  15:12:17 fission wrote...

FF> Howdy folks,
FF> 
FF> This might be a silly question, but I figured if anyone might know,
FF> it could be this group here. :-)
FF> 
FF> I want to telnet to things but have the connection feel slow, as if I
FF> were dialing on an old modem. Eg it would be nice to be able to
FF> simulate 300, 2400, 9600, etc, speeds.
FF> 
FF> My internet searching didn't come up with anything, except "rate
FF> limiting" telnet connections, which is not really what I want to do.
FF> 
FF> Does anything like this exist? I'm normally using macOS or Linux as
FF> my telnet client, so I'm ideally looking for something that runs on
FF> those.
FF> 
FF> Many thanks!
FF> 
To which Darklord replies...

Run SyncTerm, set the speed individually for each BBS entry and you
should be good to go. SyncTerm will allow you to configure many, many
options and it even "feels" like an old school (think DOS?) app.  :)

HTH's.


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