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Why can Dropbox be super fast compared to FTP?
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Mar 15, 202626866 viewsConfidence Score0%
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I'd like to know why technically Dropbox is much faster than FTP? What kind of technology does it use? I'm not talking about diff files, I'm talking about transferring new files in both cases, Dropbox is much faster. I mean it, very much faster, maybe 10 times faster than FTP for files I uploaded. …
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There could be a number of reasons for this. The FTP protocol is far from efficient. An FTP transfer needs at least two connections (one for control and one for data) where DropBox may be using just a single HTTP connection. Also the data connection…
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