Also, there are other factors which may affect the speed: The number of clients that currently are using the FTP service. This may be affected by multiple network factors such as hop count and local connectivity.
You could try downloading via HTTP, for example, if you were previously using FTP/SFTP.FTP upload and download speed depend mainly on the client’s connection to the server. At that point it might be worth changing the protocol up to see if that would help. It can sometimes happen that a particular protocol is being throttled or managed in some way and cannot provide good speeds, despite trying all the things above. By default, the port number is 21 for FTP and 22 for SFTP, but you can try 22221 for FTP and 22222 for SFTP as this can sometimes bypass throttles. Switching portsĪnother thing you can try when downloading via FTP/SFTP is switching the port. Having more transfers running mitigates this, though once you're down to the last segment you may see the speed drop sharply. If you are very close to the server it's not that much of a problem, but the higher the latency the more you have to wait for each little bit of data to be acknowledged. It's this mechanism that's responsible for the loss of speed. If (for instance) it announces to the server that it's willing to buffer 256kb of data, the server will send 256kb and then wait for the client to report that it received the 256kb in good order. Your downloading FTP client specifies a "receive window" - this is how much data it is willing to receive before reporting back to the server that it received the data correctly. You should be able to use parallel downloading in most browsers and programs, simply by selecting multiple files to download.
You should look at the documentation for your client for help on setting it up, as well as the software guides linked to on the main Feral FTP guide page. Not every piece of software can support multisegmented downloading (for example FileZilla). The difference between multisegmented and parallel downloading is: multisegmented a file is split into segments and downloaded parallel multiple files are downloaded at the same time Multisegmented and parallel downloading are two methods of boosting download speeds when downloading via FTP/SFTP or HTTP(S). To find the fastest route, please try switching routes and downloading from your slot. Rerouting can improve streaming speeds with software like Plex and can also be combined with the other improvements in the sections below.