naw... as i said.. it was up to about 10X that for a few of the files... then it went back down to the 60-70KBs... so i'm not sure why it changed either way!!! although there could be some conflict within the switch... both the windows/linux box are both set to full duplex 100Mbs... -bruce -----Original Message----- From: Jay Cliburn [mailto:jacliburn@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Sunday, June 11, 2006 2:39 PM To: bedouglas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx; For users of Fedora Core releases Subject: Re: windows/linux ftp question... ws_ftp/proftpd On Sun, 2006-06-11 at 13:58 -0700, bruce wrote: > hi... > > i've got a windows ftp client "ws_ftp (le)" that i'm using to connect to my > linux box running (i think) proftpd. both boxes are behind the firewall, > although they are both going through a switch... > > i was able to get (once) a throughput of ~600-700KBs for a few of the files. > (i'm moving some ISO files) however, for the most part, i can only get up to > ~65KBs on a consistent basis... 65 KB/s is pretty darn good. That's on the order of 500-550 kilobits/sec -- about what you might expect for gigabit Ethernet.