tom@insolvencyhelp.org ("Thomas Miller") writes:

>of the 610 KB/sec capability of my "up to 5 Mbps" 
>connection.

A "up to 5 Mbps" connection cannot deliver 610KB/sec
via FTP. Something like 550KB/sec is more realistic,
but it could be lower depending on the encoding used
on your uplink.

Can you verify that you use binary FTP transfers ?
Do things change if the file is written to a RAM disk (mfs) ?

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