slower FTP
Sun, 2006-03-19 00:30
I wonder if anyone else had a problem like this. I've had it for some time already that my FTP transfers are way slower than normal.
For example, when I am uploading something, instead of having at least 10 kb/s I have barely 5 or less. It's really crawling.
I am using krusader as my FTP client. Now I wonder if FTP is really slower at upload or there must be something wrong with krusader or my setup. I'm not sure because I use a default krusader setup and I haven't really done much in that regard to my system that should affect FTP transfers in ways that I know of, so it really comes as a bit strange to me.
Anyone can shed some light on it and has some advice?
Thanks
Daniel
FTP is an extremely high latency protocol due to the number of commands needed to initiate a transfer.
Why not HTTP?
Why not HTTP?
How can I transfer files to my server with HTTP? Who does that? What clients are there?
The same way you'd upload any Web page, put it in /var/www/html/.
You messing with me a_thing?
Of course I would put my files to a server root. That's not the point. You apparently say I could transfer files using HTTP protocol the same way I send them using FTP now, but I don't yet know of a client like krusader that manages file transfers, but using HTTP instead of FTP.
I don't think it would be hard to get HTTP(S) support in Krusader, it looks like just adding the HTTP(S) kioslave to the list.
gFTP can use HTTP(S).
Oh well, ok thanks. I've just got something better, SSH access. I am trying sshfs and shfs with it.
I can now also use sftp too, which works quite well. I would just like it if thunar file manager had sftp support. I think nautilus does, but I'll have to check..
Thanks