> 
> I'm confident it's not the Mac OS X box.
> If I'm logged directly into the NetBSD box and go to ftp a large file such
> as Mozilla or something, I see the same behavior in the ftp progress bar.
> 
> Transfer moves along at approx 230 KB/sec for a few seconds, then...
> Bzzzz, and it drops to zero for 10-15 seconds.
> 
> It only seems to happen on downloads.  Something with a large flow of
> data.  Intermittent and sporadic traffic doesn't seem to be affected.

Are you on some kind of asymmetric connection, with more downstream
than upstream bandwith?  Are you sending some other traffic upstream
concurrent with the large download?

David S.

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