Slow FTP transfer on all clients [mint cinamon]

[WhyCheese]

Normally i used windows for my work. When transfering about 10 (10-20mb) files winSCP on windows transfers them in one minute.

Transfering same files, to same server, on same hardware on linux mint takes more than 10 minutes.

Tried with FTP clients:

• WinSCP with vine

• Filezilla

• crossftp

Somehow i can't connect to server using default "File > Connect To Server..." on Nemo.

Any suggesions?

[Welcome]

Hi WhyCheese,

I just tried some ftp transfers, and I get decent performance. But, I've used different methods than you've used. And I was using WiFi for these tests, which typically is much slower than a gigabit LAN.

The first test was ftp with Firefox. The "File > Connect To Server..." ftp connection on Nemo actually uses the browser (or is supposed to). Using Firefox, I typed in a URL to my ftp server something like...

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ftp://192.168.57.134

I entered my username and password, and then navigated to a 30MB file I placed there for testing. I downloaded it and it was fairly fast (before I could check the download speed).

Next, I tried a terminal window with the ftp program. In a terminal I entered something like ftp 192.168.57.134 to access my ftp server. Here's a snippet of that session:

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ftp> ls
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening ASCII mode data connection for file list
-rwxrwxrwx   1 root     root     30852399 Dec 31 18:52 1976_Porridge_cell_hi048682280.jpg
226 Transfer complete
ftp> get 1976_Porridge_cell_hi048682280.jpg
local: 1976_Porridge_cell_hi048682280.jpg remote: 1976_Porridge_cell_hi048682280.jpg
200 PORT command successful
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for 1976_Porridge_cell_hi048682280.jpg (30852399 bytes)
226 Transfer complete
30852399 bytes received in 10.03 secs (2.9334 MB/s)

As you can see, it took 10.03 secs with a transfer rate of 2.9334 MB/s. Not super fast, but not too bad either.

Maybe you could try these two methods?

[WhyCheese]

Similar speed on nemo. Will try on terminal later but i doubt it will change anything...

[WhyCheese]

Somehow transfer speed are way better on my old laptop on same network using mint mate. Maybe it's driver issue with pc wifi dongle ?...

update: so i connected my phone to share internet via USB and speeds are fine (and better when browsing net). Any way to configure tp-link TL-WN822N dongle? Or different workarounds?

[mikeflan]

FWIW, on LM19.3 hard wired network with Clonezilla I transfer 167 MB of about 28 MB zip files in 10 minutes, so my system is consider slow by you and me. Another server did the same - 275 kb/sec.

But if I download the same files I get 10 times that rate - 2,700 kb/sec.

I think this has everything to do with the limits imposed by our ISP's. Not with our hardware.

[WhyCheese]

FWIW, on LM19.3 hard wired network with Clonezilla I transfer 167 MB of about 28 MB zip files in 10 minutes, so my system is consider slow by you and me. Another server did the same - 275 kb/sec.

But if I download the same files I get 10 times that rate - 2,700 kb/sec.

I think this has everything to do with the limits imposed by our ISP's. Not with our hardware.

As mentioned in my recent post, speed is normal (about 900kb/sec.) on my old laptop on same network. So i made conclusion and partly solved problem by pluging my phone (phone is using wifi not mobile network) via USB to share network to computer.

I also get good speed on windows on same hardware, including same wifi dongle.

In my opinion problem that linux somehow poorly comunicates with my wifi dongle wich is tp-link model TL-WN822N. Any suggestions for better wifi dongle? A have no option to use my main pc with LAN cable.