Server is running OpenSSH 6.7p1 (Debian) client is FileZilla on Windows. If someone has a good explanation of why transfers peak at 1.3MB/s I'd really like to know, and if its possible to increase this without resorting to using segmented downloading. So at 1.3MB/s constant transfer FileZilla is pretty good compared to the other methods of transfer.

I also tried WinSCP and it was the slowest regardless of method SCP/SFTP. I know that I can use some other SFTP client that supports segmented downloads such as lftp, know of other good ones that are open source?īut I still want to know what is it that limits downloading one file to just 1.3MB/s, is it some technical limitation with TCP and buffers etc or some configuration issue? I checked and for sure there's no traffic throttling enabled at all for FileZilla.Īlso I tried rsync and it was worse than FileZilla/SFTP. So why can't I download just one file at faster than 1.3MB/s and get closer to saturate available bandwidth (~6+MB/s)?

I'm downloading from a server and downloads are maxing out at 1.3MiB/second with FileZilla but I can start concurrent downloads and they will download at 1.3MiB/second also.

Filezilla vs winscp vs putty