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Re: Wierd FTP rates: incoming/outgoing >>>>>
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Alan Cox)
Fri Apr 19 05:48:29 1996
From: Alan Cox <alan@cymru.net>
To: naderr@topaz.cqu.edu.au
Date: Fri, 19 Apr 1996 10:01:18 +0100 (BST)
Cc: linux-net@vger.rutgers.edu
In-Reply-To: <199604190520.PAA00239@linuxbox.nse.com.au> from "root" at Apr 19, 96 03:20:20 pm
> a 200k file from another host at a different uni,
> further away, that also has a ping reporting of
> 20% packet loss, in 5 mins flat via the same port?
>
> that is ... outgoing is slow, incoming is fast? weird?
No. Wan links have both incoming and outgoing wires. Its quite common
(especially with dialup ISP's) that the incoming is at 90% load the
outgoing at about 20%.
Alan
