Bandwidth - it's not what you think

[Duane Attaway]

On Sat, 14 Sep 2002, Jonathan Hutchins wrote:

> Pulled the same download from sourceforge.net this morning, ~2.3MB, on both
> a system on my home network served by RoadRunner (standard domestic service)
> and a system that sits on a tri-redundant DS3 backbone.
> 
> DS3: 	35.31KB/s
> RRCM:	28.29KB/s

I just tried this with RR:

mget linux-2.4.19.tar.gz? y
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for linux-2.4.19.tar.gz (32219641 
bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
32219641 bytes received in 131 secs (2.4e+02 Kbytes/sec)