On Fri, 2003-03-07 at 18:14, Chad Skinner wrote: > Does anyone know why there would be a 8500KBs difference between scp and > ftp. I was downloading an 80MB file over ftp at 120KBps and when I uploaded > the same file from the same server using scp it completed the upload in > 7seconds? I've tried both vsftpd and proftpd with the same result.
You have not provided enough information to be sure. However, a 120 KBps (note B for bytes, as opposed to b for bits) connection implies that you have roughly a 1 Mbps link. Normal for a DSL line at home, or perhaps a T-1 at work which has some other users on it. So that part sounds reasonable. However, 80 MB = 671,088,640 bits (not including parity checks or stop bits or anything else, just the data). For that kind of data to be transferred in 7 seconds, you need to have AT LEAST 95,869,806 bits/second of bandwidth available, which works out to 91.4 Mbps. At a guess, I'd say that something is wrong in what you're doing (i.e. it's not the answer that's wrong, there is something wrong in the question). Nowhere on God's green Earth do you find one protocol in the modern Internet being 90 times faster than another. So what bandwidth do you have? That alone will tell you a great deal. -- Rodolfo J. Paiz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
