On 2009-06-20, Markus Hennecke <[email protected]> wrote: > Jesus Sanchez schrieb: >> Jean-Frangois SIMON escribis: >>> Hi all, >>> >>> It looks like the max bandwidth of ftp is somehow 350 Kb/s. >>> Is this normaland if so can it be increased ? >> >> ?? it must be your bandwidth limit, there's nothing >> about a 350 kb/s limit anywhere. please, read carefulle >> the ftp manpage. > > As there are some information missing, I look into my crystal ball and > see that Jean-Frangois is downloading with help of the ftp program via > DSL which is either 6Mbit or faster. > > Due to the latency of the DSL line the standard settings for > net.inet.tcp.recvspace (see sysctl) are not correct for this kind of > setup. He should try to increase it, for me 65536 works on 6Mbit DSL.
65535 works better in the presence of certain broken network equipment (because it avoids bumping wscale).
