[thelist] why ftp?

[Head Dragon:)]

FTP maintains a control signal during the transfer on one port and
uses another port for transfer.

FTP at 15K on a t1 means somewhere, throttling of bandwidth is going
on.  I worked for an ISP and was one hop off the end of a T3 and
pulled data from Ascend's support server (200Megs) at 40Mb a sec.

FTP is very low overhead the control signal tells the other end to
send or resend at the end of each buffer fill.  The transfer signal
just pours the data until told by the control signal to stop.

At 2:22 PM -0800 12/2/02, Chris W. Parker wrote:
>hi.
>
>hey i am currently downloading disc one of redhat 8 and it seems to be
>going really slowly (t1 here at work, looks like it's only getting about
>15k a sec. on average) i was just thinking, why ftp? why not just put
>all the files in a web directory and download it that why? not just
>specifically with the redhat site, but what are the advantages to using
>ftp over http? is there less over head overall with ftp?
>
>what do you think?
>
>thanks,
>chris.


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