Poor for high speed connections () or very unreliable connections. ) compared to when TCP was invented. When I started at university the ftp speed from the US

Poor for high speed connections () or very unreliable connections. ) compared to when TCP was invented. When I started at university the ftp speed from the US during daytime was 500 bytes per second! You don't have many unacknowledged packages in such a connection. Back then even a 1 megabits/sec connection was super high speed and very expensive.