Re: slow speed between ftp server and client

<jameshanley39@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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> my ftp server is in britain, and my friend is connecting in the USA.
> We are getting speeds of 14KB/s
>
> We both have broadband, we should be able to get at about 64KB/s, or at
> least 30KB/s, what we have seems very slow.
> These numbers i'm itnerested in are throughput.
>
> tracert only shows latency, not throughput. similarly with pathping.
>
> Is there any prog that shows throughput?
> how can I diagnose what is slowing this down?
>


Broadband connections are Assymetric.
That is to say, the upload speed is less than the download.
This will be the limiting factor.

For example:
UK ADSL typically uas an upload of 256Kbit/sec, even if you have 2Mbit down.
This will limit your FTP upload to around 30KBytes/sec.

An upload rate of 128Kbit /sec will give you around 15Kbytes/sec.

You need to determine the supposed upload speed of your connection.

Also, any other concurrent upload will throttle back the FTP speed.
For example, if 2 FTP users were uploading, or if you have a
P2P filesharing app running at the same time.

If you determine that you should be getting more than you are,
then you need to see where the bottleneck is.

Try connecting from another user on the same ISP.
Ths will determine if the bottleneck is within your ISP or externally on the
Internet.


--
Best Regards
Ron Lowe
MVP - Windows Networking


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