> Did you ever figure out what was going on? Cache/
> compression of some kind?
>
> Sean

Nope - still happens too. Some pdfs from an ftp site the
other day came into the PC almost 4x as fast as their sizes
suggested they should have, ie transfer was 1 minute/meg.
I'm convinced that on odd occassions a 56k modem can
go faster, but I appreciate there are Doubing Thomases
amongst you with good technical reasons/opinions why it
shouldn't happen

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