Fetch Softworks

uploading problems (5 posts)

• Started 18 years ago by sparky
• Latest reply 18 years ago from Jim Matthews

• sparky Member

  I downloaded (from another ftp site) a 795, 230k audio wav file in about 40 minutes but uploading the same file thru fetch to my ftp site is taking 8.5 hours. There is nothing else on this server so i have space. i tried the automatic and raw data file types. i have a very fast cable connection.
  any suggestions?

  Posted 18 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  What sort of bytes/second number do you see? Are you able to upload other files?

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 18 years ago #

• sparky Member

  right now one of files is trying to upload. It says:

  File
  Binary data 729, 125, 104K
  Transfer 27,787,363 bytes
  30,422 bytes/s.
  6:21:28 time left

  I just tried one of my files and it never got past 27,815k on the ftp site.

  and yes I can upload other files. I just uploaded a whole web site of html and jpg/gif images last week.
  thank youi

  Posted 18 years ago #

• sparky Member

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  sorry........

  I just tried one of my files and it did upload fine but it took over 7 hours on my cable connection......

  Posted 18 years ago #

• Jim Matthews Administrator

  The speed you are seeing -- 30 kilobytes/sec, or about 240 kilobits/sec -- is a typical upload speed for a cable modem connection (download speeds are often 2-4 times as fast). So yes, an 800MB file will take 7 or so hours to upload. You might try compressing the file with StuffIt or (since it's an audio file) with FLAC or some other audio compressor before uploading, to save some time.

  Thanks,

  Jim Matthews
  Fetch Softworks

  Posted 18 years ago #