HCSuperStores Posted February 16, 2005 Posted February 16, 2005 With all the talks of backups, I've realized that I'm a guilty party in not doing them often enough. So I'm attempting to create a backup plan for my accounts (I'm a reseller). So, I made a backup of the accounts and am downloading them now. But I notice the speed is pretty slow. about 13-14kbs. I'm on broadband and I usually see 2-5mbps download. I thought maybe there might be a cap if an FTP process or the disk thrashing caused too much of a hit on the server. Or, maybe there's something wrong with my throuput on this end. Anybody have any info on this? Thanks! Quote
Head Guru Posted February 16, 2005 Posted February 16, 2005 As we have said time and time again, the forums are not an official means of support. However, with that said I logged into your FTP account and was able to download a 5.14MB file from your account using my home 'adsl' connection. I was able to pull over 5mbps download. Tested 3 times, each time same result I would think it would be a routing issue or connectivity issue with your ISP. Here is the FTP sampling from the download session, just so there are 'no' questions. I have sent you a PM bill with the complete FTP sampling, however I have removed your username, IP, and username on the forums to protect your identity. Also, I have accented the download speeds in the FTP sampling. Resolving host name *******... Connecting to (*******) -> IP: ***** PORT: 21 Connected to (*******) -> Time = 46ms Socket connected waiting for login sequence. 220---------- Welcome to Pure-FTPd [TLS] ---------- 220-You are user number 4 of 50 allowed. 220-Local time is now 17:43. Server port: 21. 220-This is a private system - No anonymous login 220 You will be disconnected after 15 minutes of inactivity. USER ***** 331 User ****** OK. Password required PASS (hidden) 230-User ****** has group access to: ****** 230 OK. Current restricted directory is / SYST 215 UNIX Type: L8 FEAT 211-Extensions supported: EPRT IDLE MDTM SIZE REST STREAM MLST type*;size*;sizd*;modify*;UNIX.mode*;UNIX.uid*;UNIX.gid*;unique*; MLSD ESTP PASV EPSV SPSV ESTA AUTH TLS PBSZ PROT 211 End. Detected Server Software: PureFTPd PWD 257 "/" is your current location Cached directory reloaded. Cached directory reloaded. CWD /.spamassassin 250 OK. Current directory is /.spamassassin PWD 257 "/.spamassassin" is your current location Cached directory reloaded. TYPE I 200 TYPE is now 8-bit binary PASV 227 Entering Passive Mode (********) Opening data connection IP: ********* PORT: 29121. RETR auto-whitelist 150-Accepted data connection 150 5140.0 kbytes to download 5263360 bytes received successfully. (642.50 KB/s) (00:00:08). 226-File successfully transferred 226 8.267 seconds (measured here), 0.61 Mbytes per second Quote
HCSuperStores Posted February 16, 2005 Author Posted February 16, 2005 Hi Bill, I didn't even think this was necessarily a problem, so I wasn't expecting an immediate response as it were. It's been a while since I've done any large FTP download. In short, you definitely answered my question ... if there is any cap (which there doesn't seem to be) that it's well above the 14kbs or so that I'm still experiencing. If there happened to be a cap on FTP transfers, I have no doubt it would be there for good reason ... to keep the servers stable and free from abuse. So it appears that I am having an issue, and that issue is something related to me on my end. Software, ISP, OS ... who knows. But it is worth looking into since it is having quite an effect on me. I have a download that will take an entire hour when all is said and done. Thanks for the detail on this. Forgive me if it was a silly question. But it really was a question, and not a gripe, problem, complaint or anything else of the sort. I leave a little smarter now! Thanks for passing on the knowledge! Bill Quote
TCH-Bruce Posted February 16, 2005 Posted February 16, 2005 I downloaded a 114mb backup on Sunday and it only took 3 minutes and 9 seconds over my cable connection. Quote
HCSuperStores Posted February 16, 2005 Author Posted February 16, 2005 Ugh ... I wish ... The 56MB file download I just did took an hour ... I just did some download test and they check out just fine ... still looking at things on my end. Quote
HCSuperStores Posted February 17, 2005 Author Posted February 17, 2005 For the record, looks as if my router is doing something to slow things down. Took a while to figure that one out. It's just FTP traffic. Go figure! Quote
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