Re: FTP versus HTTP

Timothy Murphy (linux@infi.dyn.ml.org)
Sat, 14 Feb 1998 15:43:21 -0500 (EST)


On Sat, 14 Feb 1998, Timothy Murphy wrote:

> Could some expert tell me why I get significantly better throughput
> with http than ftp ?
> [I think the ratio has got worse with more recent linux-2.1.*'s,
> thought that is only a feeling.]
> I am running Linux on an ancient Pentium with IDE discs,
> and as far as I can see ftp is interrupted by disc-transfers.
> Is that nonsense?

im not sure, but it may have to do with the ftp client..

on my isdn masqing machine, i can get 6.0k/s ftping to a host
but going through masq, to the same host, in the same time frame, windows
can get 7.5k/s. im not sure why, and thats just my .02.

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