Low Bandwidth on intercontinental connections

[Ingo Flaschberger]

Am 23.11.2012 13:47, schrieb Marc Peters:
> PR filed: http://www.freebsd.org/cgi/query-pr.cgi?pr=173859 

Downloads from ftp1.us.freebsd.org to Europe (ping time ~170ms), I see 
up & down ramping of transfer speed (600kb/sec - 50kb/sec)
over serverall releases:
FreeBSD 6.3-PRERELEASE
FreeBSD 7.2-STABLE
FreeBSD 8.2-STABLE
FreeBSD 9.1-PRERELEASE

Linux performs much better, max speed was 1.2Mb/sec, and is not as much 
up & down ramping as freebsd.

Can anyone compare how other *BSD performs?

Kind regards,
     Ingo Flaschberger