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dp

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From: Aarau, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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sftp speed with different clients (filezilla, kde kio, ..)

when i connect with kde's kio with sftp to a server in the local LAN, i get transfer speeds of 7-9 mb/s. when i use filezilla (same network, server, everything) i get per transfer slot 17-21 mb/s

is the kio using a different implementation of sftp? what are the bottle necks of sftp on the client and server side?

the network is very simple, gigabit, nfs speed tops at 95 mb/s

any input welcome!

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jb

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From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

Re: sftp speed with different clients (filezilla, kde kio, ..)

If it's still the same issue when I tried to find a fix about 2 years ago, the problem is that kio, unlike the others, relies on libssh.  libssh has had this open ticket for five years now.

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dp

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From: Aarau, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: sftp speed with different clients (filezilla, kde kio, ..)

wow, the bug was posted against 0.5.x and now we have 0.7.4 with the resemblingly same issue.
can anyone verify my observations?

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jb

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From: Florida

Registered: 2006-06-22

Posts: 466

Re: sftp speed with different clients (filezilla, kde kio, ..)

I moved some data around my office this morning.  I still see the same bug. To put some numbers on it:

Nemo: 114MBps symmetric
scp:  108MBps symmetric
Dolphin: 10MBps down, 24.5MBps up

Findings.
I didn't screenshot the uploads of nemo or scp since they were the same transfer rates as the downloads.

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dp

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From: Aarau, Switzerland

Registered: 2003-05-27

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Re: sftp speed with different clients (filezilla, kde kio, ..)

thank you. you verify my observation that it is still the issue and libssh still _broken_.

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kokoko3k

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Registered: 2008-11-14

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Re: sftp speed with different clients (filezilla, kde kio, ..)

Well, kde should really stop using broken and likely bad mantained software.

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Yamashita Ren

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Registered: 2013-08-26

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Re: sftp speed with different clients (filezilla, kde kio, ..)

Bumped into the same issue.
Seems like here "fish" gives decent speed while "sftp" gives abysmal speed (wifi).
Maybe "fish" will work as good on OP's network...