PS3 [GUIDE] How to successfully FTP huge amount of files

Jason Radford said:
So my files and passwords dont get sent over the internet?
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No, since you're only sending files to and from the PS3 over your local network. Even then, you decide what's sent via over the network via FTP. The warning is simply that there's no encryption used for the FTP server (the PS3) and so it would only be an issue if you were uploading/downloading from a server outside of your network, since there's no way to prevent eavesdropping of the data being sent.
 
How I do this for large file sets is I just zip the whole thing using standard ZIP/Fastest and name the archive as the destination folder. (must be .zip)

Use MultiMan File Manager to extract :)
 
So i did everything mentioned in the post but I'm still getting a max of 1.5MB/s transfer speed while transferring a 17Gb game from my laptop to my ps3 over wifi. The router-laptop-ps3 all of those are placed in the same room as well. My internet connection is of 50Mbps both upspeed and downspeed so idk what's going wrong. Can anyone please help me with this?
 
On WiFi I get about 1-3MB/s. Using a Network Cable I get a solid 10MB/Sec

My actual Internet is only 8MB/sec. Your actual internet has nothing to do with this. It could be done without Internet at all. It is a LAN. Local Area Network. (Your PC, PS3 and a Router all talk to each other independent of your Internet.)
 
Beowulf said:
So i did everything mentioned in the post but I'm still getting a max of 1.5MB/s transfer speed while transferring a 17Gb game from my laptop to my ps3 over wifi. The router-laptop-ps3 all of those are placed in the same room as well. My internet connection is of 50Mbps both upspeed and downspeed so idk what's going wrong. Can anyone please help me with this?
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use a direct connection like an ethernet cable.
 
VTSTech said:
On WiFi I get about 1-3MB/s. Using a Network Cable I get a solid 10MB/Sec

My actual Internet is only 8MB/sec. Your actual internet has nothing to do with this. It could be done without Internet at all. It is a LAN. Local Area Network. (Your PC, PS3 and a Router all talk to each other independent of your Internet.)
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do u mean the network cable is directly form the pc to the ps3 or ps3 is connected to the router wiredly
 
"Settings -> Transfers (change red to ~90% of your max transfer speed between PS3 and PC)"

I'm new to this and need help calculating or how to figure out these download/upload limits between PS3 and PC? My internet package is 25Mbps / 2Mbps and speed test shows 27.9 Mbps / 3.5 Mbps.
 
jr666 said:
"Settings -> Transfers (change red to ~90% of your max transfer speed between PS3 and PC)"

I'm new to this and need help calculating or how to figure out these download/upload limits between PS3 and PC? My internet package is 25Mbps / 2Mbps and speed test shows 27.9 Mbps / 3.5 Mbps.
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it is not talking about internet speed. it means the speed between ps3 and pc. i dont use a max speed because mine is slow anyway. try without speed cap and see how fast it goes. if you have connection problems, then try setting a limit.
 
Personally i have that settings for "transfer speed limits" disabled in filezilla and works fine, i never noticed a problem related with it

Btw, to find the average transfer speed in between PS3<--->PC you need to transfer a big file of several GB (usually a game ISO) and check the speed at the middle of the transfer
 
i have only just found this thread.

basically if i do the same setting as OP then hopefully my transfer will be alot faster and no disconnection?
 
froggy8 said:
i have only just found this thread.

basically if i do the same setting as OP then hopefully my transfer will be alot faster and no disconnection?
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IF over WIRED (read: not wireless). then this configuration will speed up transfers. Wifi speed SUCKS no matter what you use/do. The wired is 1Gbps, whereas the Wifi tech tops at 54Mbps in that system, and in real world scenarios, more like 11-21Mbps
Gb = gigabits, GB = gigabytes, Mb = Megabits, MB = Megabytes (8 bits in a byte)
 
psykosis said:
IF over WIRED (read: not wireless). then this configuration will speed up transfers. Wifi speed SUCKS no matter what you use/do. The wired is 1Gbps, whereas the Wifi tech tops at 54Mbps in that system, and in real world scenarios, more like 11-21Mbps
Gb = gigabits, GB = gigabytes, Mb = Megabits, MB = Megabytes (8 bits in a byte)
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psykosis said:
IF over WIRED (read: not wireless). then this configuration will speed up transfers. Wifi speed SUCKS no matter what you use/do. The wired is 1Gbps, whereas the Wifi tech tops at 54Mbps in that system, and in real world scenarios, more like 11-21Mbps
Gb = gigabits, GB = gigabytes, Mb = Megabits, MB = Megabytes (8 bits in a byte)
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brilliant! yes mine is wired, for 19gb it would have took me 9 hours!

i have just found out about irisman so dont know if i will use filezilla now if irisman is like multiman for transferring files, its so much better using usb transfer.

many thanks again :)
 
froggy8 said:
i have only just found this thread.

basically if i do the same setting as OP then hopefully my transfer will be alot faster and no disconnection?
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Yes theoretically, but the stability of the connection and the "interrupts" that could happen in between the transfer of an individual file depends a lot of the health of the filesytem in the PS3, most specifically the filesystem of dev_hdd0
In my own experience i can say... when the filesystem have problems you are going to see in filezilla how the value that indicates the speed stops eventually... and 1 or 2 seconds after continues... then it stops again... then continues... and so on. But this doesnt happens all along the transfer, it happens only when you are writing in specific sectors of the hdd
Also, it could happen that the transfer stops completly... this creates a "orphan" entry in dev_hdd0 of a big size that needs to be cleaned up

All that problems are a clear indication that the filesystem is damaged (or the hdd have "vague" sectors)
At that point the only solution is to format the hdd in PC to create a fresh new filesystem. The option "restore filesystem" from the recovery menu is not able to fix this kind of problems

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But with a healthy filesystem it should be completly stable and the transfer should not be interrupted ever
froggy8 said:
brilliant! yes mine is wired, for 19gb it would have took me 9 hours!

i have just found out about irisman so dont know if i will use filezilla now if irisman is like multiman for transferring files, its so much better using usb transfer.

many thanks again :)
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Thats a lot of time... as far i remember... with a transfer speed of 11mb/s (as example, when configuring the network in "100 full duplex") you sould be able to transfer around 10gb in 15 minutes
And when configuring it at "1000 ful duplex" you should get around 21mb/s thats like the double

The values i said could not be completly accurate because im rounding numbers, and im not caring about the conversions in between megabytes and MiB because the difference is small



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And as far i remember.... when transfering files from USB/FAT to dev_hdd0 in ManaGunZ i have around 25mb/s (irisman or multiman could be a bit faster)
 
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sandungas said:
Yes theoretically, but the stability of the connection and the "interrupts" that could happen in between the transfer of an individual file depends a lot of the health of the filesytem in the PS3, most specifically the filesystem of dev_hdd0
In my own experience i can say... when the filesystem have problems you are going to see in filezilla how the value that indicates the speed stops eventually... and 1 or 2 seconds after continues... then it stops again... then continues... and so on. But this doesnt happens all along the transfer, it happens only when you are writing in specific sectors of the hdd
Also, it could happen that the transfer stops completly... this creates a "orphan" entry in dev_hdd0 of a big size that needs to be cleaned up

All that problems are a clear indication that the filesystem is damaged (or the hdd have "vague" sectors)
At that point the only solution is to format the hdd in PC to create a fresh new filesystem. The option "restore filesystem" from the recovery menu is not able to fix this kind of problems

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But with a healthy filesystem it should be completly stable and the transfer should not be interrupted ever

Thats a lot of time... as far i remember... with a transfer speed of 11mb/s (as example, when configuring the network in "100 full duplex") you sould be able to transfer around 10gb in 15 minutes
And when configuring it at "1000 ful duplex" you should get around 21mb/s thats like the double

The values i said could not be completly accurate because im rounding numbers, and im not caring about the conversions in between megabytes and MiB because the difference is small



Edit:
And as far i remember.... when transfering files from USB/FAT to dev_hdd0 in ManaGunZ i have around 25mb/s (irisman or multiman could be a bit faster)
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thank you for the explaination sandungas.

all i have done is installed filezilla and used it as it is, never changed any settings, i think if i did change the settings then what you said will be correct, it will transfer at a much faster speed

. i have just downloaded irisman and i will give that a go but if i like that then i wont be using filezilla again.

i did several transfers using filezilla last week and it failed a few times, does that mean i will need to format my ps3 hard drive on my pc?
 
froggy8 said:
i did several transfers using filezilla last week and it failed a few times, does that mean i will need to format my ps3 hard drive on my pc?
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Usually the option "restore filesystem" from recovery menu fixes most of the problems, i use to initiate it manually incase i have a ftp transfer interrupted
Also incase the games freezes or crashes whille im doing tests modifying some game files, this kind of freezes and crashes could damage the filesystem too

What i mentioned about permanent damage to the filesystem (software) is something i noticed in my PS3 after having a lot of freezes and crashes, and ftp interrupted transfers... there is a point where are cummulated many errors but the PS3 continues working normally most of the time... but eventually the XMB have lag or the xmbingame takes lot of time to load with spinning icons, also some ftp transfers does tiny "pauses" when is writing to the problematic sectors, etc...
Everything is related with a low access speed to the filesystem

Yeah, the hdd of my PS3 needs a format and a surface scan :D
Im aware that eventually is not going to be able to complete the "restore filesystem" and im going to lost all the hdd contents because is going to force me to format the hdd, but i dont care because i use to backup saves and trophies to PC
 
sandungas said:
Usually the option "restore filesystem" from recovery menu fixes most of the problems, i use to initiate it manually incase i have a ftp transfer interrupted
Also incase the games freezes or crashes whille im doing tests modifying some game files, this kind of freezes and crashes could damage the filesystem too

What i mentioned about permanent damage to the filesystem (software) is something i noticed in my PS3 after having a lot of freezes and crashes, and ftp interrupted transfers... there is a point where are cummulated many errors but the PS3 continues working normally most of the time... but eventually the XMB have lag or the xmbingame takes lot of time to load with spinning icons, also some ftp transfers does tiny "pauses" when is writing to the problematic sectors, etc...
Everything is related with a low access speed to the filesystem

Yeah, the hdd of my PS3 needs a format and a surface scan :D
Im aware that eventually is not going to be able to complete the "restore filesystem" and im going to lost all the hdd contents because is going to force me to format the hdd, but i dont care because i use to backup saves and trophies to PC
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I can confirm this, yesterday after switching from Ferrox to Rebug the UI started to be laggy (icons taking too much to load), i thought my HDD was going to die, but after restoring filesystem the problem disappeared right away
 
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