Darren R. Weber wrote:
On Mon, 17 Jan 2000, you wrote:
Since a long time I observed that my ftp transfer rates are not what they should be. I carried out yesterday a one-to-one comparison between Windows and Linux and the results speak by themselves. The test was done as follows: Download and upload between a Pentium II PC (200 MHz, 128 MB RAM) with either Linux (kernel 2.0.36 or 2.2.13) or Win98 operating system and a SGI Indy workstation, across an ISDN telephone line (max. speed 8 KB/s). and a pair of ZyXEL Prestige 100 routers, one at each end. A 3 MB file was transmitted to and fro. In the Linux case I used either plain ftp or the more comprehensive program nftp (www.ayukov.com). In the Windows case I used the very excellent Wincmd program (www.ghisler.com). The results (rates averaged over 3 MB transferred data): Linux OS : download 6.175 kB/s, upload 7.190 kB/s Win98 OS : download 7.746 kB/s, upload 6.721 kB/s For Linux, the above results are the best I got. Using Midnight Commander the results are slightly worse (e.g. 5.7 kB/s download) with kernel 2.0.36 and *catastrophical* with kernel 2.2.13 (practically unusable for download). For Windows, better results are obtained with Windows on both sides, using Laplink 7.5, the transfer rates are consistently 7.5-7.6 kB/s in both directions, so that I tend to think that the inferior upload result above is related to the Indy workstation.
I'm curious now. . .I have seen exactly the opposite. I have used plain old ftp also with no problems and it's faster and more reliable than my windows machine. I will have to do a side-by-side to prove it now though. I have an adsl connection and I hit a sustained rate of 800 kbps on a 100 M transfer I did the other day. Though I was not using the linux ftp client. I was connecting to my linux box as a host using ws_ftp on my winNT box at work and the host was running wu_ftp for the server at home. Still I thought that was an impressive rate. Maybe I can test the client some tonight to see if I get the same results you do there.
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