#1 2016-02-18 22:55:19

Dord

Member

From: The mountains

Registered: 2015-11-03

Posts: 17

Slower FTP speeds on BL

Hey guys,

I have this problem that's driving me crazy. When I download a file using Filezilla, the speed seems to be set at max 2MB/s per file. I have more bandwidth than that, a speedtest give me roughly 7MB/S max download speed. If I download multiple files from the server at the same time, they will all simultaneously download and reach my max bandwidth, but each of them won't go individually higher than roughly 2MB/s. And the weird thing is that if I boot windows (dual boot here) filezilla will reach 7MB/s per file no problem. lftp on BL will reach roughly 4.5-5MB/s (Still not max bandwidth, though). I checked all the settings, no limit is set anywhere, tried reinitializing my settings, even reinstalling fz, no luck.

And these numbers are pretty consistent, multiple tests:

BL: FZ 2MB/s - LFTP 4.5 MB/s
Windows: FZ 7MB/s

Any ideas? I just don't get it, this isn't making any sense to me.

ohnonot

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Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 5,592

Re: Slower FTP speeds on BL

just one additional thought:
how do you obtain these numbers?
i know from experience that windows likes to pretty-print (i.e. make them appear to be larger) such stats. that might explain the 4.5/7 difference, but not the FZ limitation on linux.

Dord

Member

From: The mountains

Registered: 2015-11-03

Posts: 17

Re: Slower FTP speeds on BL

Thanks for the input, guys.

I'm not on wifi, good old ethernet cable. I did not try wget, but lftp, which is a fairly simple client, and getting much better speeds, so I assume the problem comes from filezilla. I am just getting the speed from the software itself.

Thanks for the tip that windows might make the speed appear bigger, but as you said, it still doesn't explain why filezilla and LFTP are getting very different speeds when downloading from the same server in the same environment. 

No other ideas?

ohnonot

...again

Registered: 2015-09-29

Posts: 5,592

Re: Slower FTP speeds on BL

^ not to mention passwords in plaintext...