I agree with Paul. It's almost certainly hour WAN link. My own at home often gives sustained downloads in excess of 2Mbps, This seems to be throttled by the cube of the difference between upload speed and 16kbps. When I get up to 10kbps up, it's still useable. At 12, it's like a 21,400 dialup, at 14, it's like amateur packet radio, and at 15-15.9kbps upload, all downloads cease... even name resolution fails. Sprint Broadband Direct is an extreme example, but most home broadband has similar linkage between the pipes. You are likely to actually improve your overall performance by throttling the rsync with the --bwlimit= option. Turn the upstream one's speed down to about 70% of its maximum alone, and it should leave enough for the downstream to do well.
Tim Conway Unix System Administration Contractor - IBM Global Services desk:3032734776 [EMAIL PROTECTED] 2. Line speed is around 100 kbps but halves when transferring files in both directions. -- To unsubscribe or change options: http://lists.samba.org/mailman/listinfo/rsync Before posting, read: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html
