Re: [JoLUG-General] FTP Question

[Ammar Ibrahim]

This is due to the fact that every file sent over FTP has a number of things to be done before being sent. Many FTP clients check if a file with the same name exists to warn you if you want to overwrite the file, check permissions, and so on. And of course it varies from one client to another, but there are things that are common, which is specifications of FTP.

The best thing would be to tar( zip | rar ) the collection of files, and then to un(tar|rar|zip) the files using SSH( or telnet or whatever )

Ammar

On 6/11/06, Al-Faisal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

Hey guys,
I have been using FTP a lot lately to upload/download files from a web server, and i have noticed that when you download or upload one large file, it takes less time (far less time) than a group of smaller files with the same total size.

Since i am not much of an expert in networking, I just started wondering as to why that happens? is that normal? does perhaps initializing the streams for every file consume that much time?

I tried it using a Java applet provided by the web hosting provider, and the FTP command on the shell.

Just a curious mind wondering, thanks in advance.

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