unfortunately there are now a lot of services offered where ftp access is not provided, or not available, or even blocked. About 90% of the servers I mirror fit into this category
On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 6:43 AM, Fernando Cassia <[email protected]> wrote: > On Wed, Nov 9, 2011 at 23:24, Andrew Daviel <[email protected]> wrote: >> When downloading a large file over a high-latency (e.g. long physical >> distance) high-bandwidth link, the download time is dominated by the >> round-trip time for TCP handshakes. > > Which is why large files should be stored on FTP servers, not http. > > FTP was designed for a reason: to transfer large binary files reliably. > > http was designed primarily to serve web pages, not large file downloads. > > But try telling that to today´s sysadmins and webmasters educated aften > Win95... > > FC > > -- > "The purpose of computing is insight, not numbers." > Richard Hamming - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hamming_code >
