I am recalling getting "insane" speeds during site-to-site warez transfers on the BBS's, upwards of 200kbps a second, capping the CPU on most machines, but we a

I am recalling getting "insane" speeds during site-to-site warez transfers on the BBS's, upwards of 200kbps a second, capping the CPU on most machines, but we also used shotgunned modems on the main trading hubs, and a packetizing ZModem-like protocol to separate the transfers into 64Kbyte chunks so I am most likely misremembering a number of misadventures and smushing a few of the details together.