James Sharp writes:
> On Sat, 12 Feb 2000, Paul Kranenburg wrote:
> > You may want to experiment a bit with the number of descriptors
> > allocated for packet reception: bump _HME_NDESC to a higher multiple
> > of 16.
> 
> I twiddled with it for a while and found that a setting of 64 for
> _HME_NDESC seems to be the Right Thing.
> 
> From ftp:
> 
> 4690400 bytes received in 2.7 seconds (1.7e+03 Kbytes/s)

which ftp client are you using here? the ftp client in netbsd hasn't
reported xfer rates like that for a long time. also, the netbsd-current
ftp client has been tweaked a bit to attempt to get the best xfer
rates possible (including allowing you to set the socket buffer sizes)