Hello, I appreciate any light someone could show me on this. An asp.net application i run allows downloads and uploads of files. It runs on IIS6.0 / win2003 server web edition. The problem I have is that the performance of uploading a file (using HTML input box) is incredibly slow (I am getting 37.5kb/s) whereas when downloading from the server it runs very fast (over 200kb/s). As very large files are being transferred it makes it useless when file uploading is this slow.

The file download is done using the Response.WriteFile() method.

The file upload is done using the HtmlInputFile saveas method as below:

Protected WithEvents UploadedFile As HtmlInputFile
UploadedFile.PostedFile.SaveAs(Path.Combine(destDi r, fileName))

My question is, is there a performance issue using the above command - is there a faster method, or a configuration in the web.config file perhaps that could increase the speed?

Many thanks for any pointers.

Regards,

Doonbug

The more significant question is what kind of network connection are you dealing with here? That's where the problem is it sounds. I don't think that either of those methods are going to hurt your performance.

We run a 2 mb leased line, but even internally the upload speed to the web server (IIS 6.0) is still only peaking at around 37Kb/s. Downloading from the same application I get maximum performance. Internally though it does go through a firewall and into the DMZ and back to the web server again, so I am checking the firewall for any bandwidth throttling configurations though have yet to see anything that might cause this. I think you're right though. I can't seem to think of any reason why a default settings in the web.config file or the 'html input file' method may hurt the performance.

its ok - Ive found the prob in the firewall causing this. Nothing to do the the web app itself. Thanks for the help anyways Planoie