Slow transfer rates with FTP and Fish on Intrepid and Hardy

[Nigel Henry]

I'm getting very slow transfer rates 10 - 50KB/s when transfering data using 
Gftp on my local network. This is specifically with Kubuntu and Ubuntu 
Intrepid, and Kubuntu Hardy.

I also have Kubuntu Dapper on this machine, and get the full transfer rate 
that my realtek 8139 card is capable of (10007.26KB/s as an example).

Network manager is on Intrepid, and Hardy, but I have it disabled, as it 
wasn't working properly, and have set up static addresses on these distros.

Internet access is ok, but as I'm on dial-up it's difficult to know if that 
would be affected as well, if I had broadband.

Checked vsftpd config file, and uncommented a couple of things that are on 
Dapper's vsftpd config file, but no change in the transfer rates on Intrepid, 
and Hardy.

Does anyone have any idea what the problem may be?

Nigel.