I stay in Germany from time to time and in the course of my work I download fairly large files from the laboratory on Centennial Campus (trace and log files). Well, the link in the lab can upload to my Home U-Verse link in Cary at 9mbps. However, from Germany with a 6mbps internet connection that same upload caps out around 0.6mbps. I can only think the problem is with the atlantic ocean. However, I can download from my U-verse connection to Germany at the U-Verse VDSL line cap of 1.5mbps. Clearly AT&T has a better routing path to Europe than NCState does. Any way to influence that?

1/29/2011 2:17:56 AM

Can you just install an FTP server on your home machine?

Then you can use command line or whatever is convenient (ftp works with every OS I can think of) and then just cue it up to download overnight. Sounds like the effort will double or almost triple your speed.

1/29/2011 2:24:04 AM

^ !!!! WINNER !!!!!

But ya you want to look into doing ftp, that or maybe RDP/SSH to a machine at home, and then pulling it from there and then to germany.

Ya Im like a block from where campus uplinks, and Im on TWC, I bounce to Charlotte before I get connected back to campus. Dont you love how the internet is setup somedays.

1/29/2011 9:17:16 AM

True...I could set up a proxy server at my home in Cary then stream it at once (NCSU->Cary->Germany). But there I would still be capped at the 1.5mbps VDSL line cap. I would really love to get to the 6mbps limit of the Germany DSL line. But you got me thinking...maybe I should try some commercial proxy/VPNs here in the states and see if I can get a good link through any of them.

[Edited on January 29, 2011 at 9:30 AM. Reason : ...]

1/29/2011 9:29:37 AM

SCP or SFTP would work as well.

1/29/2011 9:29:40 AM