Subject: Re: ftp transfer speed anomaly
To: Space Case <wormey@eskimo.com>
From: Kevin M. Lahey <kml@nas.nasa.gov>
List: current-users
Date: 12/17/1998 19:06:35
In message <199812180206.SAA26700@eskimo.com>Space Case writes
>This is just so wierd.  I have this 250MB file that I transferred from my
>PC running NetBSD (1.3I, 11/26/98) to my PC running WinBlows 98.  The speed
>was a respectable 860KB/second.  I decided I needed to send it the other
>way (Win98 -> NetBSD) and got a dismal 4.8KB/second.  Any ideas on what
>might cause this or how to track it down?

Yow!  That's pretty awful.  Could you use tcpdump to see what is actually
going over the wire?  Are both of these on the same LAN?  Wierd.

Kevin
kml@nas.nasa.gov