Help with slow transfers from pc to pc

From: Pepebuho (p1e2p3e4b5u6h7o8_at_pananet.com)
Date: 07/26/03 

Date: Fri, 25 Jul 2003 22:55:40 -0500

Hi
I have two computers running RH8.0, connected to a 10Mb hub.

The network cards are 10/100 Mb. I feel that file tranfers between the
systems are kind of slow.

For example, I did ftp on one of them and a 1474560 byte file took
274 seconds (5.3 Kbyte/sec) according to ftp.

Is it "normal"? How can I improve the transfer speed?
I know I could maybe cook up a direct link cable between the two
lan cards or get a 100Mb hub. But before I start throwing money
at hardware I wonder if this is the best I can get with my current software.

Thanks!

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