You need to ensure that you are downloading from a server capable of serving 8Mbits (most are not). In the continental USA I use gatekeeper.dec.com, which is very lightly loaded (nobody remembers it these days) and has at least an OC-3 connection. I have seen 40Mbits/s via FTP from this machine. _______________________________________________ LARTC mailing list / LARTC@mailman.ds9a.nl http://mailman.ds9a.nl/mailman/listinfo/lartc HOWTO: http://lartc.org/