Bluehost : Please help on techniques for faster uploads

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This is a bluehost question posted by jolo on 11 July 2008

To be honest, what most frustrated me in using my Bluehost web site is the slowness in which uploads are done. Could be me, could be my provider.
But I would like to make a list of potential techniques or software than can help this situation. I would greatly appreciate your thoughts and experience in this

* Would it be faster to upload going directly into Bluehost Control Panel and using the file Management options ?
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* Are there some configuration settings that I can make in my Bluehost setup that might help ?
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* Are their any software applications or add-ins that might make for faster uploads ?
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* Are their any superior FTP software products that focus on faster uploads ?
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* Is it a thought to see about switching Bluehost servers that I might want to access that have faster uploading times ?

Which all sorts of security settings that are put into email clients these days, many times attachments will not reach some of the people I am sending a photo or short Divx video too. Even documents and certainly any .zip files.
I have been uploading files more and more to my Bluehost web site and referencing the files via a hyperlink rather than sending an attachment.

I just started an upload of a short 4 minute home movie of my son’s graduation, which is in Divx format. That really is irrelevant, what’s is important is that it is just a binary file.
I am using WS-FTP Pro and the file is upload at 29.60 KBps. It is at a time at 3:28am U.S. Mountain Time where there should be very little traffic
My ISP is Comcast in Colorado, cable modem access.
I just did a test using speedtest.net and here are the results:
Download –> 17321 kbs
Upload 359 kbs

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