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Erlkönig: bits-flowing.shtmlPath: news.dell.com!natinst.com!cs.utexas.edu!wupost!uunet!olivea!hal.com!decwrl!looking!funny-request Message-ID: <S56e.2674@clarinet.com> Date: Sun, 6 Jun 93 19:30:14 EDT Newsgroups: rec.humor.funny From: opedroso@osiris.b29.ingr.com (Osiris Pedroso) Subject: FTP xfer speed Keywords: chuckle, computers Approved: funny@clarinet.com Lines: 32 Question on one of our corporate groups: ---------------------------------------- Noticed something weird today. Was using FTP to xfer some files around and noticed that "getting" files resulted in a transfer rate of about 15kb/sec while "putting" files resulted in a transfer rate of about 400kb/sec?!?! Both sending and receiving nodes were C4's, but one is a server and one is a WS. What gives?? Answer some 10 minutes later: ----------------------------- The remote system is downhill from your system, resulting in a faster rate of transfer when you "put" files, and a lower rate of transfer when you "get" files (since you have to pull the bits uphill). Remember, you should _never_ stack two systems on top of each other. Bits cannot handle vertical acceleration, and you could actually cause a bit overflow. That's why you should always back away from a machine that has an "overflow error", because, chances are, it's about to explode. Jeeze, you're working at a computer company and you don't even know the basics? -- Selected by Maddi Hausmann with Brad Templeton. MAIL your joke (jokes ONLY) to funny@clarinet.com. If you see a problem with an RHF posting, reply to the poster please, not to me. Ask the poster to forward comments back to me if this is necessary. |