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Quoting Josiah Ritchie <jritchie at bible.edu>:

> > I ended up capping the upload rate at 20KB/s and leaving it running on a
> VNC
> > session... took maybe a week to get the thing downloaded
>
> Your ability to pull down is affected by how much you put out. You will
> be slow at first, but it picks up pretty quickly. It may have gone
> slowly because you capped them out at 20K.

I don't think that this was the case this time... I started out without a cap
and was uploading at 70KB/s for about 12 hours with only about 3 or 4 KB/s
download rate for that entire time.  After that I put on the cap, and my
download rate was still the same abismally slow speed.

David