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On Sun, Oct 12, 2014 at 1:17 PM, Josh Reynolds via Af <[email protected]> wrote: > He needs a multi-threaded FTP client. > > Josh Reynolds, Chief Information Officer > SPITwSPOTS, www.spitwspots.com > On 10/12/2014 08:05 AM, Ken Hohhof via Af wrote: > > I have a customer who keeps asking for more upload speed because it takes > too long to upload a bunch of files to his server at a datacenter.� He > thinks this should not cost a lot because he is just "bursting", > unfortunately what he wants would require a dedicated link from the tower > to his house.� He will upload around 100 files when he finishes a project > and it takes about 20 minutes, apparently that's a problem.� What I see > when he is uploading is about 50% duty cycle, apparently a file uploads, > then dead time, then another file.� So I'm thinking he first needs to > improve how efficiently he uses his Internet connection. > > He says he is using drag and drop in Windows 7.� I assume this means he > is using Remote Desktop and using drag and drop within the RDP session from > his local drive to a drive on the remote server. > > Would I be right that RDP drag and drop is not an efficient way to > transfer lots of files?� (I've never done that myself.)� What would be > the best way? > > Personally, I would just use FTP, maybe create a tar archive first, but he > is using Windows.� If he needs security, it seems there are choices like > SFTP, FTPS, SCP.� If HIPAA level security is not required, vanilla FTP > would avoid the encryption overhead.� I found an article on how to set > the number of concurrent connections in Filezilla to something like 10, > would that keep the link 100% utilized?� My other FTP client is WS_FTP, I > don't know if it can do concurrent file transfers. > > >
