TCP connections are inherently throttled. (see 'TCP throttling' thread) Although redesigning the TCP stack from scratch, to circumvent this and other quirks, is probably to much to ask for, would striping the connection, over i.e. a tunnel, be a reasonable workaround? Thanks! -- Al - : send the line "unsubscribe linux-net" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html