Feature Request: Automatic Handling of Throttled Bandwidth

[joshuao3]

I have Comcast in the US and they provide me with a 2mbit upstream pipe that is burstable to about 8 mbit. The burst lasts roughly 8 seconds or so before the bandwidth is reduced and eventually throttled down to 2mbit. I say all this to mention that if I manually halt and restart the queue many times, my files get to the server much quicker. I would like to see the client intelligently detect the throttling and pause/restart the uploads automatically to maximize the transfer speed.

Thoughts?

Thanks.

Josh

[botg]

Comcast is violating net neutrality which sadly isn't enforced. Write to your congressman and tell him about net neutrality and how it would help the internet.

[joshuao3]

Though I share your sentiment, that is not a particularly helpful or enlightening response.

Regardless of Comcasts failings, burstable bandwidth is a very real thing for a lot of ISPs. If there is a way to maximize overall throughput but evaluating and taking advantage of the burstable rate automatically, I believe this would be an incredible feature. Would the developers be willing to consider this as a legitimate feature request?

Thanks for making such a great FTP client!

Josh

[botg]

As the throttling is done by your ISP, FileZilla has no influence over it. As such there's nothing I can do about it, outside my sphere of influence.