> maximum connections per second and the transfer
> rate. Latter to 500 B/s. However, the transfers take
> place much faster than that, at a horrendous 4-5
> KiB/S (so it says in the progress page). Am I
> misunderstanding what the transfer limit does? How
The 500 is the average read rate. The progress is the current read rate.
If the files are small, the turn around time will dominate. If it takes 2
seconds to receive the file, then you should see a current rate of 1000.  The
transfer rate only affect large files. For small files (<65kb) the entire file
is sent since it's smaller then the IP window size.

The connections/sec is the most important from the web site point of view. The
transfer rate becomes important only for large files, large pipes, and many
connections.

-qiC1%Ps2u1%s%uN0%I0p3DaK0c1H0%kf2A500%c.2%f#f -F
-%c.2   .2 con/sec
-A500   500 b/s
-c1     one conneciton