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I just setup Apache 1.3.0 on a FreeBSD 2.2.6 server.  I have it
connected to the Internet by a 33.6 modem on a regular analog
telephone line. I can see the server from local machines on the
same network and can also see it across the Internet if I enter
the "dynamic" IP address assigned by by ISP.

So last night we were testing it for speed. Since the pages are
loading pretty quickly across the Internet, I figured, great the
FTP should go fast too.  So a friend of mine who has an ISDN
dial-up with his ISP logged into my Apache server from his house
many miles away.  He then tried to transfer a file of about 2 MB to
the server.  It took off likity-split, but then slowed down to an aboslute
crawl.  Another transfer I tried earlier in the day did the same thing
to me from my computer at the office.  Does this sound like some
setting I have wrong in the conf files?

Please help, we need fast FTP.

How slow is slow?  33.6 Kbps might give you 4 kilobytes/s, on a good day.
You might see a burst at the beginning, but then the numbers will stabilize
to some steady flow.

Oh, and AFAIK, Apache will have absolutely nothing to do with your FTP
server - Apache is an HTTP server.

HTH
- Arunas Salkauskas
High Point Designs
http://www.highpointdesigns.com/