Confirmed that the speed is faster with very old hardware:
With an old HP Vectra VL400 desktop with Pentium III (733 MHz) the speed is a quite lovely 270 kB/s. OS was an up to date Hardy Heron 8.04. Linux xxx 2.6.24-27-386 #1 Mon Feb 22 18:19:33 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux.
Confirmed that the speed is faster with very old hardware:
With an old HP Vectra VL400 desktop with Pentium III (733 MHz) the speed is a quite lovely 270 kB/s. OS was an up to date Hardy Heron 8.04. Linux xxx 2.6.24-27-386 #1 Mon Feb 22 18:19:33 UTC 2010 i686 GNU/Linux.