Transfer problems between Linux and Windows machine

From: Brent Hostetler (bren-dont-spam-met_at_hostetler.ws)
Date: 03/15/04 

Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2004 08:03:12 -0800

I am having some strange issues with transfer speeds between my linux box
and my windows boxes. The windows boxes transfer fine between each other..
At first I thout it was a samba problem, because I was using samba for the
file transfers... However, then I did some tests setting up a ftp server on
both windows and linux and got the following strange resulst....

Any suggestions??

ON LINUX MACHINE:

Download using FTP Firefox-win32.zip from ftp.mozilla.org:
    ftp> get Firefox-win32.zip
    local: Firefox-win32.zip remote: Firefox-win32.zip
    200 PORT command successful.
    150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for Firefox-win32.zip (13779496
bytes).
    226 BINARY Transfer complete.
    13779496 bytes received in 37.6 secs (3.6e+02 Kbytes/sec)

ON WINDOWS MACHINE:

Download using FTP Firefox-win32.zip from ftp.mozilla.org:
    ftp> get Firefox-win32.zip
    200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
    150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for Firefox-win32.zip (13779496
bytes).
    226 File send OK.
    ftp: 13779496 bytes received in 38.25Seconds 360.25Kbytes/sec.

ON WINDOWS MACHINE:

Download using FTP Firefox-win32.zip from local Linux Machine (Running
oftpd):*****BAD RESULTS!!!
    ftp> get Firefox-win32.zip
    200 Command okay.
    150 About to open data connection.
    226 File transfer complete.
    ftp: 13779496 bytes received in 1004.13Seconds 13.72Kbytes/sec.

Upload using FTP firefox-win32.zip from Window machine to Local Linux Server
(Running vsftpd);
    ftp> put Firefox-win32.zip
    200 PORT command successful. Consider using PASV.
    150 Ok to send data.
    226 File receive OK.
    ftp: 13779496 bytes sent in 94.88Seconds 145.24Kbytes/sec.

ON LINUX MACHINE:

Download using FTP Firefox-win32.zip from Local Windows Machine (Running
WARFTPD):
    ftp> get Firefox-win32.zip
    local: Firefox-win32.zip remote: Firefox-win32.zip
    200 Port command okay.
    150 Sending "C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents\temp\Firefox-win32.zip" (13779496 bytes). Mode STREAM Type
BINARY.
    226 Transfer finished successfully. Data connection closed.
    13779496 bytes received in 4.31 secs (3.1e+03 Kbytes/sec)

Upload using FTP firefox-win32.zip fromt Linux to Local Windows Machine
(Running WARFTPD): ***BAD RESULTS!!
    ftp> put Firefox-win32.zip
    local: Firefox-win32.zip remote: Firefox-win32.zip
    200 Port command okay.
    150 Ready to receive "C:\Documents and Settings\All
Users\Documents\temp\Firefox-win32.zip". Mode STREAM Type BINARY.
    226 Transfer finished successfully. Closing data connection.
    13779496 bytes sent in 1.35e+03 secs (10 Kbytes/sec)

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