[TriLUG] Ot: File Transfer

Warren Myers volcimaster at gmail.com
Thu Jun 16 15:11:22 EDT 2005


who has 16Gb TEXT files? good lord that's a lot of logs!

WMM

On 6/16/05, Jim Ray <jim at neuse.net> wrote:
> 
> 16 Gb/1.5Mbps=transfer time not including TCP/IP overhead
> 
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> 
> Mark Freeze wrote:
> 
> >I just had a client ask me a few questions about file transfer and I
> >wanted to ask everyone for ideas on the best way to handle the
> >situation:
> >
> >They are a 100% Mac shop and they want to transfer me a 16Gb text
> >file. If I have a dedicated T1 and so do they, how long might the
> >transfer take assuming that I download the file from their ftp server?
> >
> >If I were to use my 30gb notebook usb drive, (that I currently use
> >with my XP machines) could they just plug it into their systems and
> >copy the file over? I think that the drive is formatted with ntfs.
> >(This may be a silly question but I know nothing about Mac's, their
> >filesystems, etc...)
> >
> >Thanks,
> >Mark.
> >
> >
> 
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