The remote link is an un-utilized T3. The downlink is a 3MBIT cable modem.
Ragnar Kjørstad wrote: > On Thu, Aug 01, 2002 at 11:48:56AM -0600, Andreas Dilger wrote: > > > Problem: The pget -n feature of lftp is very nice if you want to maximize > > > your download bandwidth, however, if getting a large file, such > > > as the one I am getting, once the file is successfully > > > retrived, transferring it to another HDD or FTPing it to another > > > computer is very slow (800KB-1600KB/s). > > > > I find it hard to believe that this would actually make a huge > > difference, except in the case where the source is throttling bandwidth > > on a per-connection basis. Either your network is saturated by the > > transfer, or some point in between is saturated. I could be wrong, of > > course, and it would be interesting to hear the reasoning behind the > > speedup. > > If some link is saturated with 1000 connections, you will get 1% of the > bandwith instead of 0.1% if you use 10 concurrent connections. right? > > -- > Ragnar Kjørstad