Everyone wants faster transfers. Here are a few pointers on the things that affect your FTP transfer speed:
1. Bandwidth
If you have other internet-based applications (like online games, P2P clients, Torrent) running while transferring, your bandwidth is naturally compromised, because you are sharing it with others, making for a slower transfer.
2. ISP
Some ISPs provide slower uploading speed compared to downloading speed, so you may want to clear this issue up with your ISP provider if this is indeed the case. Your ISP may also have a speed limit, which, of course also limits your FTP transfer speed.
3. Multiple connections to the same server.
If you have more than one connection open to the same server that hosts the FTP, then you transfer rate will also be slower. The same goes when people other than you are connected to the same server.
March 18th, 2009 at 1:05 pm
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