Oleg Goldshmidt wrote:

> Are you sure you are not mixing units here? Geoff seems to quote
> everything in bytes (and I assume kB stands for kilobyte, as usual).
> 11 kB/s id _more_ than 50kb/s if kb stands for kilobits.

I have to. By the time I actually get the data the only unit of throughput
is BYTES per second. Since I don't have any tools to measure it,
raw line speed in BITS per second is irrelevant.

Yes, the raw speed is reduced due to the overhead of both IP and FTP.

Geoff.

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