Slow FTP?

I apologize if this isn't appropriate for this category. I'm new to the Mac, have had my MacBook Pro less than a year, and continue to be delighted. But I'm still new enough that I don't know where to look or whom to ask when a problem comes up.
I want to share a very large file (200mb) with my family, and I thought I'd just put it up on my own personal web site. Even given how huge the file was, I really was astonished at how long it took to upload -- hours and hours. But then when at last the bytes uploaded equaled the bytes to upload, to my utter dismay, instead of just telling me that it was complete, it _started over_ for crying out loud!
I went through that a couple of times, thought maybe Dreamweaver had a problem with big files. So I downloaded a freeware FTP program (One Button FTP) and tried it instead. This program said I was uploading the file at between 35-40 kbps! I canceled the upload, checked my dsl speed on a web site, and it said that my upload speed was over 300 kbps, so my ftp upload speed was almost 10X slower than my http upload speed! The provider of my personal web site said they were getting very much faster FTP speeds on their end, and didn't think they were the problem. I tried uploading it to another site I manage on a different server and the speed was the same, so it wasn't the receiving server. That's why I'm wondering if there's something funny on my Mac.
Is it normal for FTP to be drastically slower than http? I also noticed that while uploading by FTP it slowed drastically anything on my web browser, taking several minutes to load a simple page, so this FTP communication at a meager 35-40 kbps was completely tying up my internet connection.
Can anyone tell me if this is normal? Or if there's a problem, and if so, what?
Thanks!

In order to prevent spam, and overuse of bandwidth on shared internet services cable and DSL providers typically provide a much slower upload versus download speed. Don't get byte and bit confused. http speeds typically are mostly download, with very little upload involved.
8 bits = 1 Byte.
If the measurer is using a lowercase 'b' that indicates bits.
If the measurer is using an uppercase 'B' that indicates bytes.
Unless you are using SDSL, or FiOS, chances are your upload speed is typically limited to 768 kbps or about 90 kBps. A 200 MB file would take 200 x 1024 /90 seconds.
FiOS at its fastest is 2 Mbps upload, or about 256 kBps.
SDSL at its fastest is about 8 Mbps upload or about 1 MBps upload.
Dedicated T-1 connections are about 10 Mbps upload or about 1.25 MBps.
Dedicated T-3 connections are about 45 Mbps upload or about 5 MBps.
etc...
So unless you have a dedicated line, a 200 MByte file is going to take a long time.
The best FTP programs for the Mac I've found for normal active or passive FTP are http://www.rbrowser.com/ 's FTP programs. For SFTP there is Fugu:
http://rsug.itd.umich.edu/software/fugu/
Best to send any nontext file as a Binary FTP transfer. ASCII/Text only works with files that contain nothing but standard typewriter text characters.
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