Direcway 6000 - MEGA-SLOW ftp help?

[ngcomputing]

Maybe someone can help me out here. I'm running OS/x 10.3.9 and have a direcway 6000 installed. Fetching http requests are super fast.

However, if I ftp into servers (even hosted with different companies) the connection is slow, I mean slower than dialup.

I'm using RBrowser as an ftp client, and if I download an entire backup of my site (say about 2 megs) it takes about 5 minutes to "prepare" before transferring. In addition, my clients (I'm a web developer) use Contribute 3 to manage their site content. I was setting up a new connection and it takes about 15 minutes of waiting versus about 3 minutes on dial up.

This is the case when connecting to different servers at different locations, so I'm sure I've ruled out the remote server and the client causing the trouble.

Has or is anyone experiencing this?

Thanks much!

 

[sonjay]

Sorry, can't help, but I can sympathize. Yep, ftp connections over satellite are slower than molasses. That's just the way it is, and there's not a darn thing you can do about it. The worst are connections via Dreamweaver or Contribute, because they make so many calls back and forth to the server.

I lived with the exact situation you're in for nearly two years. I would sometimes dial in over my modem because it was actually faster than the satellite.

Was I ever glad when DSL finally made its way into my neighborhood.

 

[ngcomputing]

Sorry, can't help, but I can sympathize. Yep, ftp connections over satellite are slower than molasses. That's just the way it is, and there's not a darn thing you can do about it. The worst are connections via Dreamweaver or Contribute, because they make so many calls back and forth to the server.

I lived with the exact situation you're in for nearly two years. I would sometimes dial in over my modem because it was actually faster than the satellite.

Was I ever glad when DSL finally made its way into my neighborhood.

Thanks for confirming my sanity. Direcway support didn't offer anything regarding ftp.

I had DSL at my location, after some tenants moved out, I had the power and DSL cut off for a month (to pay the $800 bills and assess the $8K worth of damage in 4 months). Called bellsouth to have my DSL re-activated...finally had to contact their corporate headquarters to find out that I could no longer get the service because the "placed a load coil router on the slick bock to improvide voice quality."

Thus, after being on dialup, and running a web development business, I had to go with a satellite connection. Btw, I put F-Bellsouth DSL in big stick letters on my dish and now provide FREE broadband to everyone in my neighborhood (within a mile). ::ha::