bird - 11:43 pm on Jul 12, 2004 (gmt 0)

It's small files where the problem lies, especially when compared to dial up in a website management situation using FTP.

Ah now I see why you're worried about productivity loss there. Of course, any decent FTP software will automatically up/download whole directory hierarchies of files at the press of a button. So the only thing you lose is about half a second per file on top of the "normal" transmission time. Your really need a *huge* site for that to matter.