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Speed up your FireFTP connection in Firefox
This might be obvious for most of you, but I’ve always found FTP to be quite slow. When uploading 3-5 files, why do I have to wait for them to upload one after the other? Well it turns out I don’t. I use FireFTP for ftp uploads which runs inside Firefox and I just found an option in its settings which enables simultaneous file transfers (up to 10 at a time).

Install it, and go to the addons page, find FireFTP, click on options and go to the connections tab. Set max simultaneous uploads to whatever you need and hey presto, you’ve just increased your ftp speed by a factor of 10. That may have been obvious, I just found it though so I’m enjoying my new found speed. If you have hundreds of files to upload, you’re better off zipping them and extracting them on the server if you can.

3 Responses to “Speed up your FireFTP connection in Firefox”

  1. hal9000 Says:
    November 13th, 2008 at 11:48 am

    I have used Fireftp for some time and results vary on multuple file uploads.
    I have found that when uploading lots of files to my server with the multiple upload selected cause problems with my server including flooding the ftp server and twice getting locked out of my own server for a possible DOS attack.
    By all means give it a go but be warned that if you find yourself locked out then you will probably hyave to contact your server support to get the block lifted.

  2. Daniel Pataki Says:
    November 14th, 2008 at 9:36 am

    That’s some great advice hal9000, thanks for sharing!

    I’ve been using FireFTP for ages now without porblems, however I have never uploaded many files with the multiple upload option enabled, I usually top out at about 10. If I upload large amounts I zip them and upload the zip.

  3. dale Says:
    June 5th, 2009 at 8:23 pm

    I love and use FireFTP as well, but you need to understand that the max upload does not increase speed by any means. what it allows the user to do is load up to 10 files by splitting up the bandwidth into 10. so if you upload at 100kbs and are transferring 10 files each one uploads at a “shared” 10Kbs, if it’s one file then it gets the full upload speed of 100Kbs. Thus you can have “multiple” uploads “sharing” one parsed bandwidth, sometimes helpful if you want to grab different files from different directories while adding them to your queue.

    Thnxzz - remember to make a small donation to this awesome FF Plugin!

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