On Fri, 16 Feb 2018, Pavel Sanda wrote:
There's little unit confusion here, I usually run wget which works in K(=*1024)/M/bytes (ironically it does not report the 'byte' part). Anyway the reported slowness of wget might be also due to ncftp really measuring in kB meaning 1000*bit, not byte...
Pavel, I was reporting in bits per second. Anyway, here's the wget report: $ wget ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0rc2/LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg --2018-02-16 10:01:35-- ftp://ftp.lyx.org/pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0rc2/LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg => ‘LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg.2’ Resolving ftp.lyx.org... 195.83.118.1 Connecting to ftp.lyx.org|195.83.118.1|:21... connected. Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in! ==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done. ==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD (1) /pub/lyx/devel/lyx-2.3/lyx-2.3.0rc2 ... done. ==> SIZE LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg ... 135668328 ==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg ... done. Length: 135668328 (129M) (unauthoritative) LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x 100%[===============>] 129.38M 808KB/s in 3m 20s 2018-02-16 10:04:58 (664 KB/s) - ‘LyX-2.3.0rc2+qt5-x86_64-cocoa.dmg.2’ saved [135668328] Rich