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drewprops
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Join Date: May 2004
Location: Atlanta
 
2016-09-28, 10:57

I have about 2TB of data to upload to a cloud storage provider and yesterday I thought that I'd be clever and stop by a Google Fiber lounge in town to try out their lightning fast 1000Mb/s upload speed. I was surprised, however, to discover that my upload speeds were still nowhere NEAR the potential speed promised by Google Fiber.

Can you guys walk me through the vagaries of FTP and why the speeds I was getting weren't all that impressive?

I was using Transmit 4 and using an ethernet-to-USB cable that the Google folks provided.

I may have seen faster speeds by dragging/dropping into the browser window for the cloud service, so I'll be checking that out later today.

Edumacate me??!!!





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kscherer
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Join Date: Aug 2004
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2016-09-28, 11:06

Google is busy scanning all your files.

They have learned that you like cats and watermelons.
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alcimedes
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2016-09-28, 12:00

>Google Fiber lounge

Is it just a single shared pipe amongst anyone there? If so I wouldn't be surprised to find out they cap the upload of any one particular user.

Did you ask any of the folks working there?

The other thought would be depending on the speed of the USB port, that could *easily* be the bottle neck.

I know Apple has a long history of using older parts to save money, and I know they used slower USB2 connectors long after 3 had become the norm.

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drewprops
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2016-09-28, 13:10

LOL @kscherer

Alci:

I don't know if it's a shared pipe :/

The guy I spoke to didn't know about caps, but I highly suspect they'd use them.

My machine has USB3 ports, but I recognize that even with that there's an inherent chance of them being slow-ass-slow.

I do think that FTP is a slow method, but I have not studied the math/code behind it.


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drewprops
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2016-09-28, 16:11

Okay here's another observation.

I'm currently at the Gooble Figer location right now and it's MUCH faster using the browser for file uploads – I'm observing peaks of as high as 5MB/sec on this particular folder upload.

And this is on my WIRELESS experiment.

UPDATE: Using WiFi, I was able to upload 881MB of data in around 38 minutes.

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