# Weird winxp FTP thing

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**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [November 3, 2005, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-winxp-ftp-thing/329267 "2005-11-03T09:14:38Z")\
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**Author:** ![abby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@abby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abby)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 9:14am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-winxp-ftp-thing/329267/1 "2005-11-03T09:14:38Z")

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Hi

So, I got this new interesnt connection at work - fibre, 10Mbit sychronous. It’s awesomely fast and fantastic.

However, when I go to upload a file in FTP Voyager, or a host of other FTP apps, the max upload speed is 47.x kb/second. I can set about 20 files to uplaod at the same time, so I am using most of my available 10Mbit pipe… but no one file will go above 47.x (x can be 1 thru 9, but it never goes above or below 47).

I try the same thing in commandline FTP, and I get 273kb/second (about the same I get for downloading - that’d be a limit of some other node on the network (it’s around 25 hops, so not surprising).

But what is it about windows GUI FTP apps that limits the upload channel?

a

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**Author:** ![Harmonious\_Discord](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/h/74df32/32.png) [@Harmonious\_Discord](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Harmonious_Discord)\
**Post date:** [November 3, 2005, 4:39pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-winxp-ftp-thing/329267/2 "2005-11-03T16:39:28Z")

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The server for the download could very well have a maximum rate set for downloads. They limit the speed so their service isn’t overly taxed by a few people. Are all the downloads from on place?

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**Author:** ![abby](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/48db29/32.png) [@abby](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/abby)\
**Post date:** [November 4, 2005, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/weird-winxp-ftp-thing/329267/3 "2005-11-04T02:27:01Z")

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> [@Harmonious Discord](#):
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> The server for the download could very well have a maximum rate set for downloads. They limit the speed so their service isn’t overly taxed by a few people. Are all the downloads from on place?

Um. I own the FTP server, and there are no limits on it - like I said, we’re UPloading, not downloading, and anyway, when I FTP upload from a DOS prompt, it’s hell fast. It’s windows FTP apps that are making this weird.

a