May be NCSU limits download speed on the bittorrent protocol, so that the
servers are not loaded heavilly. Did you try comparing a normal file
download?

> Something I don't understand...  If I download, say, a Linux
> distribution from USENET or via a torrent, I can reach speeds around 1
> MB/s  (RoadRunner at home).  But using sftp/scp from my NCSU machine, I
> can only reach speeds around 100 KB/s.  Why is this so?  Any ideas?
> --
> Daniel Underwood
> North Carolina State University
> Graduate Student - Operations Research
> email: daniel.underwood@ncsu.[redacted]
> phone: XXX.302.3291
> web: http://www4.ncsu.edu/~djunderw/
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