Eko wrote:
>Not really. Both FTP and news are inherently too slow to be
>done sequentially.
Huh? In my experience this is the order: (fast first, slow last), most of
the time of course.
1. FTP - max that your connection can give you
2. HTTP (or www if you prefer that) - 80-90%
3. Mail (smtp/pop3) - 50-80%
4. TelNet/SSH - probably the max, but response times are often sluggish
making it act slow since it's on-line (every characther is sent to the
server and then back without the users view being updated until the
characther return)
5. News - NEVER above 100bytes/sec (if you even get above 50 you are in luck)
Of course if you connect to a FTP server that is in itself slow (ie. mp3
and warez servers) then that's another thing, but in general FTP servers
from companys and organizations are giving you max speed here.
>Virtually all FTP and news servers allows
>you to open multiple connections with the *same* account at
>the *same* time.
So you aren't talking about warez sites afterall then ;-)
>For example, when uploading new materials to SurvPC site (*),
>I usually opened three or more WS-FTP windows at once,
UUUGGHHHH!!! WS-FTP!! You have extremly fast lost my respect Eko. Try a
real FTP client instead (you could just as well have said that you used
FrontPage to make the SurvPC pages - that's how bad I think WS-FTP is).
I'll try and forgive you since you give good bug-reports for Arachne ;-)
>each
>goes to different directories. That way, I don't have to
>wait for directory changes anymore, all accessible at once.
If you have Win9x/NT try BulletProof it's much better in this aspect and
CuteFTP can be changed into not showing every change (no new LIST command).
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