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How come putting files to a website with ftp is so slow?

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Felecha

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I'm kinda curious. I've recently begun doing a website for our church group, putting recordings of our weekly meetings up for people offsite to get. I have learned to do digital recordings and make mp3's of them, and have been putting the files up with Dreamweaver's put command. I also tried it from a command prompt but it's no faster. I have a cable connection with about a 500k download speed. Is uploading generally that much slower? I mean it's like 30 seconds to move a megabyte up, and 2 seconds to bring it down.

There has to be a simple explanation
 
Upload is always significantly slower on consumer broadband connections. There's nothing wrong with FTP.

It's because the average home user only needs to send http requests and emails, not large files, but they might well be downloading music, movies, etc.
 
Is it a function of what the website host provides, or my ISP? Or is the download using something other than ftp?

 
Your upload will be significantly slower than your download, as Atheus has said. This isn't something you can fix; it's up to your ISP.
 
Originally posted by: Felecha
Is it a function of what the website host provides, or my ISP?
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I think it's your own connection, your ISP, yes. If you have 500kb down you might have only 128 or 64kb up.

Or is the download using something other than ftp?
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Dunno what protocol you're using to download, you didn't say, but it shouldn't really matter.
 
Generally it's your ISP limiting you, of course there's always a chance that the webhosts network is saturated and causing problems too. And the download is using whatever protocol you specify, but it's usually either HTTP or FTP.
 
Yeah it could be your webhost too. I have a 10Mbit uplink but can only upload like 80kBps on some webhosts. sFTP is also a bit slower than unsecured FTP.
 
ok, thanks all.

Whatever it is has been pretty consistent for months. I called my ISP tech support and they told me to go to speakeasy.net and test the speeds. I get download of about 3800 and upload about 300. Ummm ... that's way off from what I'm used to seeing in my real downloads, where it reports 450 - 480 on a good one.

???
 
get download of about 3800 and upload about 300. Ummm ... that's way off from what I'm used to seeing in my real downloads, where it reports 450 - 480 on a good one.
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Are you sure you're comparing the right numbers? I would assume that speakeasy.net is giving you kilobits while you're looking at kilobytes for your download speeds.
 
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