Subj : Telnet/Rlogin speed?
To   : Kirkman
From : Digital Man
Date : Tue May 22 2018 04:02 pm

 Re: Telnet/Rlogin speed?
 By: Kirkman to Digital Man on Mon May 21 2018 09:21 pm

>   Re: Telnet/Rlogin speed?
>   By: Digital Man to Kirkman on Mon May 21 2018 04:50 pm
>
>  DM> So even if you could somehow test the connection and determine its
>  DM> speed upon connect, it would likely change (up and down) later. RLogin
>  DM> does include an optional terminal speed field, but its not really
>  DM> relevant or useful over the Internet.
>
> I guess what I'm looking for is not necessarily an exact bits-per-second,
> but just the difference between someone who's connecting over telnet with a
> Lantronix at 57.6k or slower, versus someone using a plain terminal at
> normal telnet speeds.

But there's no such thing as "normal telnet speeds". :-(

> Is there an ANSI sequence I could send through Javascript that returns an
> automatic response from the remote terminal, and I could time that?

There's the ANSI cursor position report - but that's not a lot of data sent
back by the client: http://ansi-bbs.org/ansi-bbs2/control_seqs/

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