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I'm assuming that there are others out there who use FTP to maintain websites via their Hughesnet service, so if this makes no sense to any non geeks, please accept my apologies in advance!
Recently I started using FTP to maintain my site and have found it to be slower than Christmas (maybe even slower)!
I've used Filezilla (software that downloads and uploads files to webservers) on DSL before and the speeds were way faster. It takes nearly all day to upload about 10mb of data...
Has anyone else had issues with FTP not working well with Hughesnet?
I'm not fapped and I have the Pro plan.
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I use CuteFTP and it works respectably. Where there are a lot of files to verify that they should be overwritten, it really slows things down. A few large files will update much faster than thousands of small files.
You do not receive benefit from Hughes proxy when using FTP. However, I have not found FTP to be a particular problem with Hughes.
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I use FireFTP (and free add-on to Firefox) to upload pictures for my website. The pictures are not large (45 KB each or so), each picture uploads in a few seconds. I can upload 10 pictures in a couple of minutes. FireFTP only refreshes the target (server) window after all the files are uploaded which saves some time.
I haven't uploaded files as large as 10mb but I have downloaded and uploaded web pages in relatively short time.
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See that you're using passive mode for FTP.
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One of the major issues with FTP is the handshaking for each packet group - the absolute delays with satellite can really slow things down. It does make sure stuff gets there correctly, however.
I found a program called Internet Download Manager that uses FTP's restart capability to effectively break a file into many pieces and transfer them in parallel, so the wait time for acks has way less impact. It flies on any connection, including Hughes!
Unfortunately, if does not seem to have an upload capability, so it won't help in your application unless you can somehow run it from the far end. Any chance of running an FTP server on your machine and pulling from a client running on the hosting server? (it's not as confusing as it sounds!)
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For whatever it's worth, I use Filezilla to upload to our website, and although I've never specifically timed it, it appears that the Hughesnet uploads take about as long as they do using the Verizon aircard. A typical upload is about 10-12 meg, and takes about 20 minutes.
-------------------- al Millenicom/Verizon - F1 on standby Posts: 176 | From: On the move | Registered: Apr 2007
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Just an other data point I use Ipswitch WS_FTP over a secure (SFTP) link using Starband without lots of delay. One site is about 4.4MB an other is ~43MB. It is slower than when I use DSL but what did I expect.
Total replacement of the smaller site takes minutes, not 10s of minutes.
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