By no means is this scientific, but here's how I see things:
ftp transfer: I get at least 50k-150k/sec to/from a server at university.
After if I telnet into that very same server, the connection is bad. I
type stuff, and don't see it update on screen until second or two later
(sometimes more). My system's got 48 megs of ram, and litterally nothing
running. 

On Thu, 23 Mar 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:

> How do you measure the speed that makes you think things are slow?  Do 
> you have a standard test others can run?  How much memory do you have on 
> your system?  What all are you running on it?
> 
> My Sparc IPX certainly seems a bit faster than my mac68k system, but not 
> that much unless I have the Mac doing something memory or CPU intensive.
> 
> -bob
>