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Pallieter · 04-14-2005, 04:59 PM

When transfering many small files there is significant lag due to the inefficiency in the FTP protocol. It would be very useful to setup something like Parallel Transfers when there are multiple files (set a default threshold at like 35 files). I now usually do it manyally by opening another session to the same FTP account and send/receive half the files via session 1 and the other half via session 2 (because I have a limit to my bandwith, I often do not get twice the throughput, but I am sending/receiving files more continuesly - eg: there is no wait between files, as most often the wait does not coincide with the second session).

Any reason why this is not a good idea? I believe it would be easy enough to implement.

04-14-2005, 04:59 PM
Pallieter Junior Member Join Date: Sep 2004 Posts: 4	Parallel Transfers When transfering many small files there is significant lag due to the inefficiency in the FTP protocol. It would be very useful to setup something like Parallel Transfers when there are multiple files (set a default threshold at like 35 files). I now usually do it manyally by opening another session to the same FTP account and send/receive half the files via session 1 and the other half via session 2 (because I have a limit to my bandwith, I often do not get twice the throughput, but I am sending/receiving files more continuesly - eg: there is no wait between files, as most often the wait does not coincide with the second session). Any reason why this is not a good idea? I believe it would be easy enough to implement.