Increasing the maximum number of simultaneous transfers?

[wtzouris]

Hi everybody. I am new here. I have been using Filezilla with great success to upload from NY to CA, every night, through my very fast FIOS fiber optic connection 20/20 Mbps upload/download. I am getting between 1.5 and 2.4 MB/sec upload when I add the two upload speeds overall. Last night was a big night, 10.95 GB transferred in 2 hours, 20 minutes. So I am averaging 4.7 GB/hour.

Specs for last night:

1144 files total
1128 of them were 5 MB jpegs - they show 1.2 MB/sec speed per file being uploaded x 2
16 of them were 275 MB .wav files - they show 750-800 Kbps speed per file being uploaded x 2)

I have the Preference of maximum number of simultaneous transfers (1-10) set to the default of 2.
I increased the timeout in seconds setting to 90 seconds from the default of 20 (I don't know why but that seemed better)

Will I do any better if I increase the number of simultaneous transfers?

Any other advice would be appreciated.

[botg]

Maybe, maybe not. Impossible to tell, best would be if you just try it out.

[wtzouris]

Is there any way to know the elapsed time of a que that was processed the night before?

[boco]

If you enabled file logs, yes, otherwise no.

[wtzouris]

Setting the maximum number or transfers to 8 was a bad idea, caused all sorts of errors and failed transfers. I'm back to the default setting, maybe tomorrow I will try 4 simultaneous transfers, but having to erase the cue and start over was a real time waster this evening. Transfering 14.4 GB in 3 hours tonight.

Verizon FIOS 20/20 service is awesome.

[wtzouris]

OOOH I think 4 simultaneous transfers is the magic number. I did a quick test and with 2 transfers or larger files (300 MB) I average 1.2 MB/sec combined (about 600 Kb each) but with 4 transfers I get closer to my maximum upload connection speed of 2.4 MB/sec

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[Hrvoje]

How to increase the max number of simultaneous transfers in the latest Filezilla server?

[boco]

Answered here. Please do not cross-post.