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Dave Fitch wrote:

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> Last Wednesday evening (~6pm) I ftp'ed several files from ANU's
> sunsite mirror (as announced here a couple of days ago, thanks!).
> I was fairly consistently getting 3.2 Kbytes/sec as reported by
> ftp when it finished getting each file.  What sort of rates do
> other people get??
> 

That`s really about it. You're modem is running at 28.8 Kbits/sec,
which is 3.6 KBytes/sec.

There are both IP & TCP headers on each packet that will eat into
your (limited) bandwidth.   

** This is assuming that your modem is unable to do any of the magic
compression that they can do if you are dowmloading already comressed
files.

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> 
> Dave.
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