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Author Topic: FTP client Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 09-26-2013 04:04 PM                     I'm fairly new to FTP transfer but I have done them before. I'm using Filezilla now. Our internet at the theater is 25MBS download speed. Filezilla is transferring at an average of 800KBS. Is there a faster service?  |  IP: Logged Rick Raskin Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1100 From: Manassas Virginia Registered: Jan 2003 posted 09-26-2013 04:13 PM                     Probably not. Your theater internet is probably 25 Meg bits per second (Mbps). The FileZilla rate is 800K bytes per second MBps which translates to 6.4 Mbps (8 bits per byte). Your transfer speed will be limited by the slowest link or host. I use ftp quite a lot and rarely is the transfer even close to my internet link speed (35Mbps bidirectional). FileZilla is really quite good and the best part is its free.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 09-26-2013 04:21 PM                     Well that's disappointing. Thanks anyway Rick.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 09-26-2013 05:28 PM                        Depending on what you're doing, you may (or may not) get better transfer speeds using scp with compression enabled instead of plain old ftp. scp's native compression method is gzip, so it's great for some types of files and substantially less impressive for others. Of course, transfers of large, uncompressed files will show more of an improvement than transfers of small or previously compressed files.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 09-26-2013 05:48 PM                     It will mostly be for DCP trailers.  |  IP: Logged Justin Hamaker Film God Posts: 2253 From: Lakeport, CA USA Registered: Jan 2004 posted 09-26-2013 06:24 PM                        Richard, are you talking about the speed for sending something out from your theatre, or downloading something to your theatre. I you're talking about sending out (upload), you're speed will normally be significantly lower than your download speed. This is something tied to your ISP and has nothing to do with what FTP client you're using. If you are talking about download, it could be slow because it's downloading from a computer that has a slow upload speed, or the bandwidth is being used by multiple users downloading at the same time. About the only thing you can do is make sure you're not trying to download multiple files at one time - or that your connection isn't being used to steam media or any other bandwidth intensive activity by another user.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 09-26-2013 07:11 PM                     This is for downloading trailers. There is nothing else on our network to slow things down. It must be on their end.  |  IP: Logged Frank Cox Film God Posts: 2234 From: Melville Saskatchewan Canada Registered: Apr 2011 posted 09-26-2013 07:29 PM                        I'm interested in Justin's "steamed media". It must look something like this:  |  IP: Logged Leo Enticknap Film God Posts: 7474 From: Loma Linda, CA Registered: Jul 2000 posted 09-27-2013 10:59 AM                        If you're using Windows XP or later, you can just type the FTP address into the Windows Explorer address bar, and use the remote site as if it is a local folder, dragging and dropping as reqiured. That won't work with FTPS/FTPES, but for unencrypted FTP I've found it to be much less of a faff than Filezilla.  |  IP: Logged Marcel Birgelen Film God Posts: 3357 From: Maastricht, Limburg, Netherlands Registered: Feb 2012 posted 09-27-2013 12:35 PM                     FileZilla is a very decent FTP client, probably one of the better ones currently out there. It beats the integrated FTP clients in recent Windows version hands down on may aspect. If you don't need those features, the one integrated in Windows is fine, but... The nice thing about FileZilla is that it supports queues and can reliably resume file transfers if they were interrupted. It also understands passive FTP without causing headaches, which is important if you're behind a non-supportive firewall/NAT setup. Also, you can download multiple files at once (configurable), which can highly improve your overall up-/download rate, for both small and large files. If you're experiencing high latency to your up-/download location and dynamic TCP windowing isn't available or broken, having multiple TCP data streams can dramatically improve your overall transfer speed. Obviously that only works (with FTP) when transferring multiple files, not just a single big one.  |  IP: Logged Scott Norwood Film God Posts: 8146 From: Boston, MA. USA (1774.21 miles northeast of Dallas) Registered: Jun 99 posted 09-27-2013 01:03 PM                        It could be that whoever is running the server is using traffic shaping or per-connection bandwidth caps to limit the amount of traffic that one user can create. Depending on the server-side setup, you might be able to open multiple connections (in the same or different client(s)) to transfer multiple files at once.  |  IP: Logged Richard May Phenomenal Film Handler Posts: 1057 From: Floral Park, NY USA Registered: Aug 2004 posted 09-27-2013 01:18 PM                     Scott. That's what it sounds like. It definitely is on their end. I downloaded files from somewhere else and it went much quicker. Since these are single large files, I will just have to deal with it.  |  IP: Logged Steve Guttag We forgot the crackers Gromit!!! Posts: 12814 From: Annapolis, MD Registered: Dec 1999 posted 09-28-2013 05:49 PM                     I used to use Filezilla...until a corrupted software update (upon transfer) caused two servers out of 8 to die. It was a couple of years ago and I heard similar stories about a generation of Filezilla that had issues (PC version). I switched to WinSCP and never looked back (version 4.19). Never an issue.  |  IP: Logged Bajsic Bojan Expert Film Handler Posts: 190 From: Ljubljana, Si, Eu Registered: Aug 2008 posted 09-29-2013 01:44 AM                     Total commander, it's stable, have no issues. Interface is clunky but if you remember the Norton Commander of DOS fame, this is it.  |  IP: Logged Brad Miller Administrator Posts: 17775 From: Plano, TX (36.2 miles NW of Rockwall) Registered: May 99 posted 09-29-2013 04:38 AM                     You are welcome for the recommendation, Steve. WinSCP version 4.1.9 is indeed flawless. I'm not sure how easy it is to find anymore, but it's here if anyone wants to grab a copy. WinSCP is freeware.  |  IP: Logged

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