Has FTP been "promoted" to forbidden?

[jmn]

Anybody tried FTP recently? I tried one site local and one international, very slow if I can connect in both cases.
Will waste time on this later today again...

 

[alchamy]

I have had problems with FTP for some time now, given up on it a while ago, I can connect to the site, move a folder or 2 and then it hangs. Local FTP still seems fine though

 

[WitWolf]

Same here, ftp speeds sucks compare to normal internet speeds. I can download 10 x faster on http then on ftp.

 

[regardtv]

Well, I have a feeling that can be addd to the same thread concerning pop3 outside of their own network ....

wtf is going on with their international partners ... are we getting cogent bandwidth ... gggrr

 

[BicPen]

shees guys, things seem to be falling apart...it’s one problem after the other, I’m constantly getting the feeling that wbs is trying to degrade the service behind the clients back...maybe they are struggling financially? It will explain the lack of staff, the constant degrade of service, and the disconnection of "abusers"

If this is the case what future do we have with a company going bankrupt anyway? We might just as well start looking elsewhere.

 

[bb_matt]

They are doing a "Sentech" and gearing toward the email/light surfing brigade - it's a simple as that.
95% of internet users in this country don't have a clue what FTP is and don't use it.

 

[slimothy]

ftp is fine for me, good upload speeds to NL and US and downloads are cool too, so I dont think its an official policy, probably just that your connections are sucking anyways regardless of what protocol you use now anyway

 

[BicPen]

@#&@^% MORONS!!!!!!!!

thats all i can say

 

[BicPen]

Slim i hope you are correct, i really do....

 

[LandyMan]

My connection is currently 400kb/s, FTP'd a file from a London server at 23KB/s ... it is not over the default port though, running through a secure connection on a non-standard port

 

[jmn]

Now I get up to 36 kBps, average about 30 kBps on download (single thread from USA), upload runs at average of 15 kBps, so it's probably been network congestion this afternoon, but then, why the (much) higher HTTP speeds?

 

[slimothy]

bad routing, bad tiem of day, congestion, bad port, it can be anything, but if it was forbidden you wouldnt connect at all

 

[Kei]

FTP seems fine- I moved some folders and deleted some files

 

[nocilah]

i was busy with ftp this whole evening and read this thread... i was getting incredible speeds uploading (45-58KB) and normal (90-112KB) speed downloading.

Perhaps the ftp/servers that are slow are crappy?

 

[ic]

It is also equally possible that someone @ WBS unchecked the option to throttle jmn's ftp to death, but as with most things iBurst related, it is really difficult to deteremine where a problem lies or what the exact cause is...

 

[nocilah]

well in the interim we are discovering that alot of these problems are generally the fault of iburst.

 

[slimothy]

actually its easy, its the bandwidth manager, simple as that

 

[nocilah]

but if we know this then why dont they (WBS) know this?

 

[slimothy]

well I say they do, but its either intentional and they are pretending they don't know or its not top priority, look for Roman's points and you can't doubt its not the bandwidth manager application for a second.

 

[Kei]

Well, FTP was fine last night. I didn't have the time to upload a 34 meg file but the files I moved and uploaded were fine and no disconnections.

I've had lots of problems with FTP in the recent past, and since a few other people work on my website we were having FTP problems in December. The others had ADSL and uploads were hanging. I also experienced "disconnections" last year on dialup. These problems were solved by moving to a new webhost. Maybe it's iBurst, maybe it's the webhost concerned.

I do know that FTP is really crappy if they should happen to run their backup tape at the same time you're accessing the site- but that seldom happens nowadays with the powerful processors they install in servers nowadays.