FTP transfer speeds..is there a better way?

[Robert Khouri 0]

Hi guys,I tried to use the FSD File manager to transfer about 120gig worth of roms from an external HDD, to my xbox 320gig HDD, but it kept failing.  I suspect trying to transfer thousands files at once probably causes memory issues.  I'm currently performing the same operation via an FTP client, namely, Filezilla, but I found the transfer speed to be horrible.  I was wondering what kind of transfer speed everyone gets over the wifi.  Right now I'm getting 1 mBps (mega Bytes) ...is that normal?  If so, does anyone know a better way to mass transfer? I'm very tempted to plug in my old cat5 cables...

Forgot to mention that my laptop wireless connection is at 54Mbps, so I would expect a theoretical transfer speed of 4.5 MBps on a strong signal :s

Edited June 7, 2013 by Robert Khouri

[Anosserp 1]

I get around 4 mbps wireless and around 11 wired. I think yours may be so slow because you are not transferring just from pc to xbox or vice versa. You are going there and back(I think that's how that works anyway). I'm willing to bet your transfers may be failing because you have some file names that are too long. Once the xbox sees a file name that's too long, it will stop the rest of the transfers as well. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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[croize 36]

Usb 3.0 & external is my advice  

[x0BlackTeresis0x 7]

Just use FSD File Manager or XEX Menu to copy , idk why people use on xbox ftp , i mean ok PS3 has games with data bigger than 4 GB and needs maybe NTFS but XBOX CMON thats not that way is made for

[Robert Khouri 0]

Thanks for the snappy response guys.  Yea that's right...I've got both devices (laptop and xbox) interfaced to my home router, which splitting up all the traffic.   I don't think I want to go through 20k rom files to sort out length issues either.  Might try the wired connection,...is your connected directly to the xbox ?

[Robert Khouri 0]

Errr sorry If I sound rude...but I specifically said in my initial post that I tried using the File Manager in FSD already, and that it was failing, possibly due to file names being too long.   Although xex menu sounds like an idea...I'll try that first! :3

[FaTaLiiTYz 56]

xbox file names cannot be more than 42 characters, use the tool Prexboxcopytool to rename them, also my max wired transfers dont go past 12mbps but thats because its xbox hardware related.

[Robert Khouri 0]

Thanks for all the useful posts guys.  After some head scratching, I realised that the file names contained illegal characters for use of the FATX partition, and that I could only have 4099 files in one folder at the same time. I interfaced the xbox hdd to my pc, and transferred everything via usb 3.0.I used the tools FatXrenamer, and FATXplorer respectively. <<--- Highly recommended!