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What does an Internet speed of 4 Mbit/s mean?
This speed refers to the link between you and your ISP. It does not guarantee than you can get that speed from any place on the Internet.
Lets create the example where you upload a file from your ...
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Router restarts after big git push or big file upload
You’ve made a well written, descriptive post. But, it’s written from the perspective that there must be something external to the modem causing the problem.
You wrote
I am able to see a log of ...
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What does an Internet speed of 4 Mbit/s mean?
Bits vs Bytes
Bit = A Single 1 or 0
= _
Byte = 8 1's or 0's
= _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
To get [Bytes per Second] (or megabytes, giga, etc) Simply take ___ Bits and divide by 8
Storage is measured in ...
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How to upload all the files from local to host using Curl?
I would change you script like so:
#!/bin/sh
for file in /folder/path/*
do
curl -u username:password -T ${file} http://www.example.com/folder/${file}
done
Note that the for-loop variable file is ...
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How do I upload files using the command line on Windows?
While, in some cases, you can use the Windows command-line ftp.exe client, as the answer by @nixda shows (except for the quote pasv part, which is wrong), in most cases you cannot. The ftp.exe does ...
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Uploading files to S3 account from Linux command line
Alternatively you can try https://github.com/minio/mc
mc provides minimal tools to work with Amazon S3 compatible cloud storage and filesystems. It has features like resumable uploads, progress bar, ...
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Shutting down computer during dropbox synchronization
Dropbox uses chunks to upload files in segments. When a file transfer is aborted, it will reupload the chunks that were not uploaded succesfully, but not the whole file.
See also dropbox api: ...
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Myths and facts about network speed
There are two different things that you can measure. One is the line speed, typically measured in decimal bits per second. The other is the effective data rate, usually measured in binary bytes per ...
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What status code does the server need to send when a file upload failed?
If you are programming a NodeJS server yourself you can decide what error code to return.
But you have to know what error code stands for what. e.x If I mail you about getting error code 406 you ...
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Upload file to ftps from command line
ftps:// is implicit FTPS (port 990).
To use explicit FTPS (port 21), use --ssl switch (or even better --ssl-reqd to enforce FTPS):
curl -T testFtpFile --ssl ftp://host --user my_user
Note that -P ...
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File transfer 1 Tera Byte Bim file
Depending on the speed of the connection between locations, it could take ~1 day on a 100mb connection end to end, to ~10 days on a 10mb connection.
Your best best for tranferring by Internet, as ...
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Does downloading a file, requires the server to also upload it to the client
You should not confuse BitTorrent with regular downloads.
Yes, when you download a file from a server, there are two parties involved and they must cooperate. In the "real world" you could come and ...
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File Upload speed factors
File upload speeds generally depend on two factors:
Network upload speed (ability to transfer data).
Application speed (ability to process data).
Network upload speed can be limited by:
Physical ...
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How to upload big files to S3 on a flaky connection?
You can use FileZilla Pro to transfer files to and from a S3 bucket. FileZilla Pro supports multipart upload and in case of failure it will resume the transfer.
For the records it comes with a lot of ...
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Allow Dropbox to finish uploading even if file is editted
That's just the design of Dropbox and your slow upload speed. You can try splitting up your text file into different names and that will make it easier to upload files in smaller parts.
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Myths and facts about network speed
Specifying capacity in bits/s -
David Schwartz is right that bits/s predate the Internet - and this is part of the answer - old systems did not always use 8 bits to represent data - For example, ...
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What does an Internet speed of 4 Mbit/s mean?
I'm assuming the file size is 4 mega bits, even though file sizes are usually measured in bytes (8 bits). this means the file is 4,000,000 bits large.
If the connection between you and the receiving ...
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Should I connect a NAS to a router, switch or access point for optimal in- and outbound performance?
Your Internet connection is almost certainly the limiting factor for upload speeds so the location wouldn't matter for that.
Access to the NAS from wireless clients will be limited by the Wi-Fi ...
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What are the different ways to transfer a a large (5 Gb) file between two Windows systems?
I use Resilio Sync (formerly Bittorent Sync). It is free for non-business use and works extremely well with large files and multiple locations.
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How to limit upload speed in Windows 10?
Try NetLimiter (http://www.netlimiter.com/).
With NetLimiter, you can see your running programs and apply a DL/UL limit to any of them.
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How to limit upload speed in Windows 10?
I'm afraid you may need to use dedicated third-party softwares (with specialised bandwidth filtering service). One that'd come to mind is Netbalancer
NetBalancer is an internet traffic control and ...
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Is there a cURL command line to create a folder in Box.com storage?
The URL you are accessing (https://dav.box.com/dav/) is the URL for WebDAV support from Box. Therefore, you should be able to use normal WebDAV requests with it.
In your case, to create a folder, you ...
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How to programmatically upload files to Telegram?
I found a solution! The official client probably doesn't allow it (all known command line arguments are unofficially documented here), but for Linux and Mac (and probably also Linux subsystem on ...
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I took pictures of documents on my iPhone and I want upload them onto my Mac and then what do I need to do next if I need edit the documents?
What you need is Optical Character Recognition (OCR) software which attempts to recognize characters and punctuation in an image of a document.
Tesseract or an alternative for the Mac needs to be ...
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Router restarts after big git push or big file upload
It's faulty firmware, this did not happen with CH7465LG-NCIP-6.12.18.24-5p4-NOSH. This issue is causing router restart when hairpin or loopback is being performed. With this error, you cannot use ...
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Uploading large folders to Onedrive
You can make a symbolic link in your Onedrive folder and point to the folder you need to upload on your external drive. The following steps should work:
1. Open command prompt
2. Change to your ...
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Why is uploading files from a browser always slow?
There are two separate attempts:
Via the browser.
Via API.
And possible factors:
a. The difference is when they are tried. (say 3 hours or 5 minutes
apart)
b. General internet status in related ...
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Microsoft Teams image upload: "Something went wrong while sharing. Let's try again."
Microsoft cloud services (365, Teams, etc) have been experiencing problems for much of the day today. Our users are also submitting tickets about problems like what you've posted:
https://...
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What to do with upload ID beginning with dash (hyphen-minus)?
This problem is mentioned in the bug report
aws glacier fails to work with archiveID's which start with a hyphen (-) #1319 .
This post relates to archiveId, but the suggested syntax
will probably ...
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