Re: What ids the performance comparison of FTP to other transfers?

John Earl wrote:
> 
> About a year ago, on a couple of V3R1 AS/400's I benchmarked a very large 
>file (I
> don't remember the file size) using both SNADS and FTP over a 4MB tokenring.
> 
> Using SNADS it was just under 45 minutes.
> Using FTP it was just over 6 minutes.
> 
> 18 years of being an SNA bigot went right out the window.  I embraced TCP/IP
> wholeheartedly.
> 
> jte
> 
> boothm@ibm.net wrote:
> 
> > How does the performance of FTP compare to other methods used to transfer
> > large files from one AS/400 to another?
> >
> > --
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> > boothm@ibm.net
> > Booth Martin
> > -----------------------------------------------------------
> >


YES FTP is faster...SNADS is purposly(sp?) detuned if you will so will
not impact other functions. I feel there is a time and place for both. I
used to know how to DE-DETUNE it but it's long gone from the grey
matter...

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