Johnny Billquist <bqt@update.uu.se> wrote:

> You are seeing more than 3 Mb/s, but it looks like your close to
> 4 Mb/s, not 5... 

Just to be blindingly clear could you please post 
(perhaps again) how you calculated "close to 4?"  

> And to the ISPs servers, you should probably be able to
> get more. The latency interested me. Do you know how many 
> hops you have to that ftp server? (You can check it out with 
> traceroute).

aluminum: {1} traceroute -I -n 207.172.2.141
traceroute to 207.172.2.141 (207.172.2.141), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  10.18.224.1  8.309 ms  25.364 ms  36.551 ms
 2  10.18.224.1  9.392 ms  16.449 ms  7.969 ms
 3  209.6.160.100  6.440 ms  8.941 ms  12.470 ms
 4  207.172.15.146  5.935 ms  6.441 ms  7.966 ms
 5  207.172.19.2  16.495 ms  19.541 ms  15.852 ms
 6  207.96.92.134  17.451 ms  17.451 ms  19.200 ms
 7  208.59.255.70  17.234 ms  18.462 ms  17.982 ms
 8  207.172.2.141  19.461 ms  19.965 ms  21.519 ms

aluminum: {1} traceroute -I -n 207.172.2.141
traceroute to 207.172.2.141 (207.172.2.141), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  10.18.224.1  6.734 ms  16.379 ms  5.424 ms
 2  10.18.224.1  6.426 ms  7.458 ms  6.456 ms
 3  209.6.160.100  5.927 ms  6.948 ms  6.964 ms
 4  207.172.15.146  10.933 ms  7.944 ms  7.466 ms
 5  207.172.19.2  15.465 ms  15.476 ms  15.945 ms
 6  207.96.92.134  19.449 ms  17.957 ms  23.993 ms
 7  208.59.255.70  17.481 ms  25.438 ms  28.501 ms
 8  207.172.2.141  19.953 ms  17.464 ms  20.030 ms

I think 1 and 2 are my router and modem, respectively.  
The times on hop 1 vary from 5 to 36 ms.  

Kindest regards, 

Tom

aluminum: {2}