I have a similar machine (Athlon 1.2, 1.25 GB RAM, 7200 RPM
IDE HD, running Win2K + Cygwin). I am able to pull nearly
wire-speed transfers on my 100 megabit lan from my Linux box,
which is actually running a pretty sluggish hard drive.
I can consistently send files to and from the Linux box from
the 2K box at around 6+ megabytes/sec using lftp-2.5.1. I
don't think there is any problem with lftp. I'm pretty sure
that if my Linux box had a better I/O subsystem, I'd be able
to get 8-10 MB/sec.
One possibility - and I have seen this several places - is
that one or more of your NICs is not set for full duplex
operation. This can turn a blazing fast network into a sub-10
megabit tar pit. There's a program for Linux, mii-diag, which
you can use on most NICs to check the duplex setting. In
general, most netcard modules take a "full_duplex" argument
which you can force to 1 to pin your card at 100/FD.
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