Brock
I find it varies sometimes slow sometimes fast, I have experienced this on many database applications I have worked on in the past and the explaination in those cases was purely event driven basically the more that is going on the host hardware the slower the system.
Don't know if this is the case on your system, I am sure you know it better than anyone, one soultion we did find was to remove any unrequired system functions, and slow the refresh rates of routing tables etc.
Like I say, I don't know your setup and I am sure you have all of these things worked out anyway.
The one thing I would say is if michael is getting a consitenly slow rate I would say it is not the host system, but something between his system and the host system, unless everyone is getting the same rate. The trouble as I am sure you are aware is there is an aweful lot of system between us and the host.
On your network issue the symptom you describe is typical of an ethernet network, it is a contention based protocol, which means that if two computers on the network try to transmit at the same time they will both excercise a random delay and retransmit their data, so it is not unusual to have differences in speed around a network as the different segments can be busier or quieter.
Ok I will stop talking in martian now, I am suppose to have forgotten all of this, when I gave up real work to make guitars !!!"
