This is mostly a desperate request for aid with an issue that has been bothering me for a week now. I couldn't express the amount of appreciation I'd have if someone could help me.
I've been creating my first GUI application using Qt, coded in C++, it's been going well, Google's been a great help.
I've been able to connect my application to a FTP server with both downloading & uploading capabilities. I mostly rely on an old Qt class called QtFTP for the handling of this.
The program I'm making is not a FTP client like FileZilla or anything, it just uses FTP.
My problem is the upload speed of files using my program in comparison to FileZilla's upload speed. It seems that my program won't upload with a speed faster than 240kbps. I've calculated this by the fact it takes exactly 90 seconds to upload a 21.55mb file.
I've been desperately looking for a fix because FileZilla manages to upload the same file with a speed up to 1.3mb/s. It's worth noting I have a 150/15mb dwn/up connection and I use Windows 7.
I downloaded WireShark to observe the packets and noticed a difference in the way packets were sent.
The FTP-data messages during the upload of my program reported a size that, slow-start wise would be small at the beginning (~3000 bytes) but would very rapidly turn into fixed messages of precisely 16384 bytes til the end of the transfer, alike: https://gyazo.com/5e5d22eddc692e8d891b3ba1de27fe07
Observing the packets of FileZilla showed that the FTP-data messages had a varying size, alike: https://gyazo.com/f42c87a2dd6968028cf78a7dee0b866e
I also looked at the threeway-handshake because after some Google research I found out about window sizes and how they could affect bandwidth. Because of this I also found an old post in which botg explains how to calculate max bandwidth: viewtopic.php?t=32591
Because of this I calculated that my RTT is: 128,697ms
And according to this handshake my window scale is 4: https://gyazo.com/934ed1425df3d2ed7fdfd001adf5a6ad
However, that thread describes downloading speeds, not uploading, but I assume the max window is still bottlenecked by the client, so still 4*65535=262140
Max bandwidth = 262140 / 128,697 = 2.04MiB/s = 254KB/s (surprisingly close to what my max upload speed seems to be).
FileZilla's handshake: https://gyazo.com/6f91543c554c50b03aac08628c99fbbf
One of the things I don't understand is how the window size value in the SYN packets is proposed or changed. My program shows Win=8192 in the SYN packet whereas FileZilla shows Win=65535 even after I tried changing the recv & send (v2) buffer sizes to random high-low values in Filezilla.xml. It always stayed as 65535. Changing the values did not seem to make any major effect upon the upload speed of the files via FileZilla either.
In my application I've even tried to set the send buffer at various stages of the socket class, pre-connection (gave 10038 error) and post connection (no result) using the following code:
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qint64 send_buffer_size = 0; // 0 was the last desperate thing I tried. I've set it to 4096, 65535, 512*1024 etc...
int send_err = ::setsockopt(socket->socketDescriptor(), SOL_SOCKET, SO_SNDBUF, (char *)&send_buffer_size, (qint64)sizeof(send_buffer_size));
int err = WSAGetLastError();
How does FileZilla cause for a higher upload speed while uploading the same files to the same server?
Is there anyone who could please help me? I have ran out of ideas.
Kind regards,
Sanchez