45KB/S Up ?

Albert Fish · 30-09-2009, 20:22

20 meg BB - 20,000 files to shift - and I'm only getting 45KB/S up (FTP)

Any ideas why ?

**Hugh** · 30-09-2009, 21:45

Normal upload speed should be 768Kb/s (96KB/s), but if you have uploaded more than 1.4GB between 4pm-9pm, you will be throttled by 75% (to 192Kb/s, 24KB/s) for five hours from the beginning of the throttling.

Traffic Management

Albert Fish · 30-09-2009, 22:03

Quote:

Originally Posted by foreverwar

Normal upload speed should be 768Kb/s (96KB/s), but if you have uploaded more than 1.4GB between 4pm-9pm, you will be throttled by 75% (to 192Kb/s, 24KB/s) for five hours from the beginning of the throttling.

Traffic Management

It's not STM, there are a lot of files but they are all c50KB i.e 790 files, 59MB in total - but there are an awful lot of them and I'd like to get through them twice as fast.

The FTP server isn't throttling/managing me and I get full expected upload on speedtest (although half d/l)

Not sure I could upload 1.4GB in 5 hours at 45KB/S anyway ...

Graham M · 30-09-2009, 22:53

Smaller files will always upload slower due to the communications required in between uploads

Albert Fish · 30-09-2009, 23:04

Quote:

Originally Posted by Graham M

Smaller files will always upload slower due to the communications required in between uploads

duh - overheads, yah, but shirley not 50% of the payload ?

Graham M · 01-10-2009, 07:41

For a start I don't particularly like the attitude, I'm trying to be helpful here and I don't know what you know, "duh" wasn't at all called for. Anyway, forgetting that, what FTP client are you using? Don't forget that setting up an FTP communication can take around a second and your actual upload will be twice what's given, so it probably doesn't get a chance to go any higher, i suspect if you zipped everything up into a single file and uploaded them, you'd get near enough your full speed.