Low Bandwidth on intercontinental connections

[Andre Oppermann]

On 23.11.2012 15:46, Ingo Flaschberger wrote:
> 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.

It's about 168ms for me and I don't see the problem here.
Speed is about 18.4Mbps.

-- 
Andre