> It seems that Plan9 is not at fault per se I think it probably is. Here's another data point (same ADSL connection) -
#l0: i82579: 1Gbps port 0xFE500000 irq 10: 386077f0e800 0.09u 0.08s 182.26r hget http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/kertex_bundle.tar But on the same machine, using linux instead: $ time wget -o /dev/null http://downloads.kergis.com/kertex/kertex_bundle.tar real 0m9.134s user 0m0.048s sys 0m0.186s
