secure file transfer?

[Cheetah8799]

FYI, there could be other hardware on the school network that limits bandwidth for certain connections and at certain times. You'll want to talk to the network admins about it. One such product is from Packeteer http://www.packeteer.com/


edit: You should talk to the school network admins and actually ask them if they can monitor the bandwidth for you. They probably already do and can show you actual graphs. They can also inform you of any other restrictions or issues you may not know about.

 

[destrekor]

problem is the network administrator isn't necessarily a genius, but he wouldn't support this even if we brought it to him.

so, hmmm I wonder if there is an upload limit implied by the NA himself.
and sure, we may not get 5mb...

and as far as the trillian/winscp thing, that would require each person pretty much maxing out their upload, wouldn't it? we really wont wanna steal eachothers up as, well, some of us do use the upload for other things.
i wouldn't want my upload being hogged by such a thing.

who knows, I'm hoping once we get WinSCP up it could change things. gotta wait 2 weeks though as school is out for christmas break and I dont have access to the server.
even if its only a megabit or two down, we'll all be happy. but 40kB/s is pretty pathetic considering the bandwidth available to us all. maybe it is the NA though...

 

[skace]

Originally posted by: hooflung
You will never tap 5 mb out of one connection client/server connection over most broadband companies where you data cap is 5 mb. Doesn't matter about the upload speed in this matter, cable and dsl companies limit you. Not to mention you want to use RSA encryption. You may tap 5 mb out of multiples however client/server connections. Seems to me you just need to use trillian and all have winscp connected to an STFP server on the win2k3 server at school.

That's what I was talking about in regards to internal testing. If you can prove the program works on an internal network then every single issue is pinpointed to the connection between the internal network and the home machines. This is the very first step we do in every single network application used in this manner. It is a very quick and easy test.

Then you can do tests on the home connection from any number of upload/download sites, get your theoretical maxes and then do tests from any server inside the school to get what you expect from your specific schools network.