Fast file transfer: How to upload & send large files quickly

Fast file transfer: How to upload & send large files quickly
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Data is getting larger and larger. Upload speeds are also increasing: Rollout of glass-fibre techniques bring upload speeds up to par with download speeds, easily allowing up to 100s of Mbit/s or even 1 Gbit/s for regular home usage. Even for mobile communications, 4G upload speeds often significantly beat the upload capacity of older ADSL techniques. TransferXL enables you to use 100% of your bandwidth to transfer your data as fast as possible.

Fast file transfer

Fast file transfer: Impact of upload speed

As an example, a 10 GB transfer at 125 Mbit/s upload takes about 10 minutes compared to almost 2 hour at a speed of 12.5 Mbit/s. And even if you have the high upload capacity, there are many services that take no advantage of higher upload speeds so you are not getting any benefits.

By taking full advantage of your upload speed TransferXL gets your data at your destination 1.5 hours faster!

Fast file download: Instant download availability

Other services often have long intermediate steps and processes in order to create a zip file before they will send you a download link.

TransferXL offers another advantage here for a fast file transfer: Due to the on-the-fly zipping feature of TransferXL, the download is immediately available once your upload is completed.

Sending large files quickly: Compressing of the data

Compression of the data before uploading can give more performance. For instance (alpha)numeric text data can regularly be compressed several times (e.g. going from 100MB uncompressed to 30 MB compressed). This directly translates into 3x faster upload and download times.

Note that although some other services offer similar compression on the server (in the cloud), this still means that you upload uncompressed and therefore are only speeding up the download.

To be fair most photos and videos are already compressed and cannot be compressed any further. There are however also some notoriously poor image formats such as TIFF or TARGA where you can still experience significant speedups.