A few months ago we decided to run a comprehensive speed test of the best file transfer clients for macOS. During this process, we made some observations which allowed us to increase the file transfer speed of ForkLift even more. In this blog post, we’ll tell you what changes we’ve made to make ForkLift faster, and we’ll reveal the results of our speed test. Supporting a wide variety of file transfer protocols. With ForkLift – among many other things – you can copy, move or delete files on your Mac locally and you can also connect to remote servers to upload, download or delete files.
A lot of people have to connect to remote servers or cloud storages to transfer files on a daily basis, for example: • Web developers • Web designers • System administrators to move files to and from servers and even edit them remotely • Photographers to back up their photos to Amazon S3 or other providers • Bloggers to upload files to WordPress or other platforms • Everyday users who back up or store data on a NAS ( Network Attached Storage ), Google Drive or Dropbox Nobody wants to spend too much time moving files from one place to another. This is especially true when the actual work can only begin after the files have been transferred. That’s why performance is one of the most important factors of file transfer apps. Why we compared the best file transfer clients Because it’s important how fast you can transfer files, we have always monitored ForkLift’s uploading and downloading capabilities, but we hadn’t conducted a comprehensive speed test comparing ForkLift to several other top file transfer clients.
We knew that some of our competitors were also paying a lot of attention to the upload and download speed of their apps. Some of them even claimed to be the fastest file transfer client on the market.
LAN Speed Test (Lite) is a FREE utility designed from the ground up to be a simple but powerful tool for measuring file transfer, hard drive, USB Drive Now available for Mac users and soon Linux users. Incredibly small (120KB Windows, 370KB Mac) and can run from a hard drive, USB Flash drives, etc. Running a network speed test on a Mac is a simple case of going over to the official Speedtest.net website and taking things off from there. For starters, the Speedtest app lives in the Mac Menu Bar once you launch it, allowing you to run a test with just a click at any given moment.
We wanted to find out how fast these file transfer clients actually were and where ForkLift ranked among them. What started out as a comprehensive speed test, turned into a series of revisiting and rewriting of some of the file transfer frameworks we use in ForkLift. Thanks to these changes, ForkLift has become an even faster file transfer tool. In the next few paragraphs I’ll explain what and why we have changed during the testing process. If you want to go straight to the speed test, Transferring files Before I tell you how one file transfer client can be faster than the other, let me explain how transferring files works.
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You might better understand the process by imagining it like eating at a restaurant. Eating at a restaurant has its rules, just as the different file transfer protocols have their own rules. In a restaurant, you take a seat, wait for the waiter, order a drink, go over the menu and then you order your meal. When you have finished your meal, you have to wait for the waiter to clear the table and then you can ask for the bill, and you can only leave after you have paid. Transferring the file equals the consumption of the food, everything before and after the meal is what we call the overhead. In the case of the file transfer, the overhead is the indirect computation and communication time that is required to perform the file transfer.
It takes time to build up, to handle and to end the communication with the remote server just as ordering and paying at the restaurant take time. Transferring small files is like ordering peas one by one at the restaurant. You have to make the same routine as described above but all you will get at a time is a single pea. Because the pea is so small, you can eat it very fast, but if you want to eat more peas, first you have to pay for the first pea and only after that can you order a new one. When you are transferring small files, the transferring itself takes almost no time, just as eating a pea, but the computation and communication time is the same as with big files.
The time spent with “everything else” compared to the time spent with the actual transfer is too big, the overhead becomes significant. But luckily, we can solve this problem. You can finish your meal faster if more than just one waiter is serving you. That way you don’t have to wait for the waiter to return from the kitchen because there are more waiters attending to you simultaneously. Sending in more waiters to serve you is like opening new threads to transfer files. Multiple threads can transfer files simultaneously just as multiple waiters can serve you simultaneously. When you use more threads, you can transfer more data at the same time, and your transfer becomes quicker.