I did not mean to say that HTTPS was a substitute for FTP. You said that FTP was the fastest protocol, and the only reasonable explanation for why FTP could be faster than anything else would be due to the lack of encryption.

Therefore, I asked if you also avoided HTTPS (and only used HTTP), since HTTP clearly is faster than HTTPS.

But if you didn't mean to say that FTP is the fastest due to the lack of encryption, then why do you think FTP is the fastest?