Maybe he needs to learn patience. 20 minutes sounds reasonable to me
unless he's doing it several times a day.
Windows 7 can make zip files without any additional third party
software. I think you right click the folder and select "compress
folder". In my experience, one big file tends to move better than many
small ones, so even if the data isn't very compressible it should help.
I have a customer who keeps asking for more upload speed because it
takes too long to upload a bunch of files to his server at a
datacenter. He thinks this should not cost a lot because he is just
"bursting", unfortunately what he wants would require a dedicated link
from the tower to his house. He will upload around 100 files when he
finishes a project and it takes about 20 minutes, apparently that's a
problem. What I see when he is uploading is about 50% duty cycle,
apparently a file uploads, then dead time, then another file. So I'm
thinking he first needs to improve how efficiently he uses his
Internet connection.
He says he is using drag and drop in Windows 7. I assume this means
he is using Remote Desktop and using drag and drop within the RDP
session from his local drive to a drive on the remote server.
Would I be right that RDP drag and drop is not an efficient way to
transfer lots of files? (I've never done that myself.) What would be
the best way?
Personally, I would just use FTP, maybe create a tar archive first,
but he is using Windows. If he needs security, it seems there are
choices like SFTP, FTPS, SCP. If HIPAA level security is not
required, vanilla FTP would avoid the encryption overhead. I found an
article on how to set the number of concurrent connections in
Filezilla to something like 10, would that keep the link 100%
utilized? My other FTP client is WS_FTP, I don't know if it can do
concurrent file transfers.
