Greetings to all!
I have a question, and I feel really stupid for asking it because I
feel like I should know this answer. Here goes...
I have two servers, one on the east coast and one on the west coast,
that I was trying to transfer 6+ GB worth of information between. The
source server is Win2k and the destination server is Win2k3.
Initially, I was using robocopy to transfer the information because I
wanted reliability; however, the transfer speed was very sluggish and
it seemed as though robocopy was not utilizing the bandwidth correctly.
I did a little research and found an MCP article suggesting that some
servers do not utilize the full TCP window. I did not modify the
registry as that article suggested, but I did try transferring the
information over FTP and received severely increased speed.
My question is why is it that FTP is faster than robocopy in this case?
Is it because robocopy is attaching a lot of information to the packet
that it's sending out, decreasing the amount of bytes available for the
actual data? Does SMB come into play here?
Thank you in advance for your input and answers,
Kyjan
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