Faster FTP uploads

[Barbouille]

Hi

Is there any way to increase the speed of FTP uploads.

When FTP downloading with FileZilla, the speed is in the range of 200mbps/sec. However, when uploading, I do not seem to be able to break 82 mbps/sec.

Is there any way to upload faster ?

Thank You

[agcssautomotive.com]

You kidding right?


Im uploading at around 3.0 KB/sec

[areidmtm]

82 mbps/sec is probably the limit that your ISP allows you. IE comcast allows 6MBPS down and 800KBPS up

[Barbouille]

You kidding right?


I am uploading at around 3.0 KB/sec


I carried out another test this morning just to double check the numbers I quoted. Here are the numbers:

FTP client used = FileZilla

Uploading a 26624 KB .zip file took 5 min 21 sec or 321 seconds
26624/321 sec = average of 82.94 kb/sec

Downloading the very same file back to my PC took 2 min 12 sec or 132 sec
26624/132 sec = average of 201.69 kb/sec

Have a great day

[DarkBeer]

What is your internet connection speed? As areidmtm pointed out, if you are on a cable connection, your download speed is normally much faster than your upload speed. If you have a 800kbps upload speed from your ISP, you are hitting your max. that is provided by your ISP. I have previously uploaded stuff from one webhost account to another and received much faster speeds, but that is because they are both using much larger pipes than I have at my house.

[Barbouille]

What is your internet connection speed? As areidmtm pointed out, if you are on a cable connection, your download speed is normally much faster than your upload speed. If you have a 800kbps upload speed from your ISP, you are hitting your max. that is provided by your ISP. I have previously uploaded stuff from one webhost account to another and received much faster speeds, but that is because they are both using much larger pipes than I have at my house.


I have a DSL connection. When I connect, a box opens up and tells me I am connected at 10.0 MBPS with my ISP.

Regards

[DarkBeer]

I suggest you try out a speed test site such as http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest
and see what your speed is there. That will give you several places to test against, and tell you if it is a ISP limit, or a restriction from BH servers, but I doubt that is the case.

[areidmtm]

That 10 MBPS is more than likely your download speed. Most people really don't care about uploading, so ISP's reefer to speed in the downloading speed. Upload speeds is always lowers on DSL and cable.

[computerCPU]

That 10 MBPS is more than likely your download speed. Most people really don't care about uploading, so ISP's reefer to speed in the downloading speed. Upload speeds is always lowers on DSL and cable.


not ALWAYS slower... you can get sDSL with up/down speeds that match [if you really want to] ;)

but you're most people only care about download speeds.

10Meg's down must be awesome!!! how much a month for that service? and location?

[Early Out]

10Meg's down must be awesome!!! how much a month for that service? and location?Well, yes and no.

I get those kinds of speeds quite often on Comcast cable in No. VA, where Comcast is going head-to-head with Verizon FIOS, and it runs about $43 month (if you also have TV with them). At quiet times, like after midnight, the connection sometimes tests out at over 16Mbps (legit tests, like downloading a very large file from a fast FTP host).

It's great for doing downloads, but only from a few sources. What you discover is that most websites, including anything at BH, can't pump stuff out at that speed. And for surfing most websites, like, say, msnbc.com, it's pretty much the same experience at 10Mbps as it is at 2Mbps.

[redsox9]

I've had Verizon FiOS installed recently and the download speeds are tremendous! I don't really have numbers per se but I know that sites load a lot faster than when I had DSL (not knocking that - DSL is far superior to dial-up). If it's available in your area and, like me, you don't want to hassle with cable, go with fiber optic!

Just did a speed check with SpeakEasy.net and it reports 4.6 Mbps download and 1.8 Mbps upload; Verizon claims up to 5 Mbps/2 Mbps so I'm happy! ;)

[Early Out]

A collection of speed tests... Some are reliable, but some are too short, and get fooled if you have something like Comcast's Powerboost, which provides a little speed boost at the start of a download (good for pics on a website, but that's about it).

A couple of these (shaw and optonline) are places where you can download large files - save the file to disk, watch the download speed in the progress window, multiply by 8 to get bits/second from bytes/second, rounding up for overhead.

Your measured speed on any of these will, of course, be affected by how close you are to the test source.

http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest

http://myspeed.visualware.com/

ftp://ftp1.optonline.net/

http://www.pcpitstop.com/

http://support.shaw.ca/troubleshooting/speedtest2.htm

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

http://www.speedtest.net/index.php

http://www.testmy.net/

http://performance.toast.net/

[winnie]

Hi

Is there any way to increase the speed of FTP uploads.

When FTP downloading with FileZilla, the speed is in the range of 200mbps/sec. However, when uploading, I do not seem to be able to break 82 mbps/sec.

Is there any way to upload faster ?

Thank You

Because of the nature of the fTP (moreover in passive mode!) protocol , when you upload a lot of files, for each new file a new data connection is initiated. This slows down tremendously the upload speed; I am a web designer and what I usually do, is zip the files and upload by ftp, then ssh (http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/putty/download.html)and unzip or unzip with ZipDeploy (http://ftp-unzip.com/ZipDeploy/about-zipdeploy/features/zipdeploy---a-ftp-with-unzip-option-client) if no ssh.

[Larsanna]

I just uploaded a test file to my BH account:
Result: 12.1 M byte(s) in 01:45 (121.28 KBps) (one big file)

Right after that I tested my DL/UL at a Speakeasy server:
Download Speed: 10,477 kbps (1,309.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 998 kbps (124.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Clearly my BH upload is quite close to my max UL.
My connection is a 10Mbit/s DL & 1Mbit/s UL.

[pel]

doesnt matter which time i upload to my bluehost space i have always ecaxtly 60,8 KB/s max using a 12 mb file.

My maximum is 128 KB/s upload which i can exhaust fully uploading to a free file hoster having no upload bandwidth limitation. So i ask myself why can i only upload with 60,8 KB/s all day to bluehost space if i can upload with about 120 KB/s practically to more than 10 file hosters i tried. :rolleyes: is it possible that bluehost servers are a bit overloaded... :D