Andrew
If you are using "consumer' broadband you are sharing this connection with 50 other users - the contention ratio. This will be why you experience slowdowns. 256k / 50 = 5k
Your alternatives are go for lower contention ratios - Bulldog and Demon offer such packages and most ISPs offer Business Broadband at 20:1 contention ratio.
You might also look at SDSL which offers the same upstream speed as downstream.
BT is also not the speediest ISP - there are league tables which might give you a better idea.
HTH
Richard Earney
-- http://www.method-photo.co.uk
On 7 Jul 2004, at 9:26, Andrew Woods wrote:
I was wondering if any of the ftp users have tips for quick and sustained
uploads, I have been using ftp recently (I have BT broadband) but have found
that firstly I get very diminished upload times during the day and a lot of
broken connections which together mean impracticably long times to transfer
files.
It appears from my conversations with BT that 256 up is the limit unless I
use a dedicated bandwidth (starting at �170/month for the 512/256). Indeed
256 would be ok if I could get that all the time. Any suggestions for
increasing this speed economically?
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