Re: [LegacyUG] uploading woes part II
cable - Original Message - From: Mike Fry mike...@iafrica.com To: LegacyUserGroup@legacyfamilytree.com Sent: Friday, October 02, 2009 6:27 PM Subject: Re: [LegacyUG] uploading woes part II Michele Lewis wrote: I am uploading my files via FileZilla instead of Ipswitch and it is just as slow. My internet connection registers as fast (using the free utility that someone posted). I can't for the life of me figure out why it takes so long. I have approx 7500 pages (pedigree style) with no photos. Remind me, what type of connection do you use? If DSL over cable, then the speed quoted to you would be for the area cable itself. That gets shared amongst everyone using that cable. Think of cable as like a LAN. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp No virus found in this incoming message. Checked by AVG - www.avg.com Version: 8.5.409 / Virus Database: 270.14.3/2409 - Release Date: 10/02/09 06:46:00 Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] uploading woes part II
Michele Lewis wrote: I am uploading my files via FileZilla instead of Ipswitch and it is just as slow. My internet connection registers as fast (using the free utility that someone posted). I can't for the life of me figure out why it takes so long. I have approx 7500 pages (pedigree style) with no photos. michele Michele, As I mentioned before, your upload times are comparable with mine. The speed of your upload connection is not the only factor. Your program should tell you how long it is taking to upload each page and the total time it has taken so to do. However, during this time process the data has to be taken from you PC which also takes time and the Server then has to accept it and process it. You will see during the upload short waiting periods. Thus, the total time depends on the speed of your PC, the upload speed and the Server speed. You may like to think of it as downloading and installing a program, but with a much slower connection speed. Ron Ferguson _ New Tutorial: Embed Blogger RSS feed into your Website http://www.fergys.co.uk Includes the family tree for Alan J Grimshaw http://www.fergys.co.uk/Grimshaw/ For The Fergusons of N.W. England http://myweb.tiscali.co.uk/fergys/ Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] uploading woes part II
Will say that FileZilla works better in the background than Ipswitch did so it isn't that much of an issue. I just go right on with what I am doing and it is fine. Ok, no more whining from me :) michele Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
Re: [LegacyUG] uploading woes part II
Michele Lewis wrote: I am uploading my files via FileZilla instead of Ipswitch and it is just as slow. My internet connection registers as fast (using the free utility that someone posted). I can't for the life of me figure out why it takes so long. I have approx 7500 pages (pedigree style) with no photos. Remind me, what type of connection do you use? If DSL over cable, then the speed quoted to you would be for the area cable itself. That gets shared amongst everyone using that cable. Think of cable as like a LAN. -- Best regards, Mike Fry Johannesburg. Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
RE: [LegacyUG] uploading woes part II
I think Ron's analysis of this is much in line with the scenario that I talked to Michele about off-line a week or so ago. She originally mentioned something like 2 hours for the upload. I created a similar number of files and of similar size and uploaded them to my own server. With my upload speed slightly slower than Michele's, I can't remember the exact time but it was something like 20 minutes or so compared to her 2 hours. Her web server is hosted by Charter Communications which is not known for being cutting-edge when it comes to providing quality web-servers. So the bottom line is that regardless of how you have Legacy create HTML pages, and regardless of which FTP client you use, you are still at the mercy of the processing speed of the host web server. If it is busy and overtaxed, or running on a slow processor with slow hardware, your upload times will vary greatly. On the brighter side, just think of all the months it took you to get the info into Legacy. A few hours of upload is nothing compared to that. :-) Brian in CA -Original Message- snip However, during this time process the data has to be taken from you PC which also takes time and the Server then has to accept it and process it. You will see during the upload short waiting periods. Thus, the total time depends on the speed of your PC, the upload speed and the Server speed. You may like to think of it as downloading and installing a program, but with a much slower connection speed. Ron Ferguson Legacy User Group guidelines: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Etiquette.asp Archived messages: http://www.mail-archive.com/legacyusergroup@legacyfamilytree.com/ Online technical support: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/Help.asp To unsubscribe: http://www.LegacyFamilyTree.com/LegacyLists.asp
