Re: [gftp] multi-threading downloads

[Bret Busby <bret@xxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, 29 Jul 2008, Kristian Davies wrote:

> Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2008 21:22:15 +0100
> From: Kristian Davies <kristian.davies@xxxxxxxxx>
> Reply-To: gftp-users@xxxxxxxx
> To: gftp-users@xxxxxxxx
> Subject: [gftp] multi-threading downloads
>
> Version: 2.0.17
> CentOS 4.4
>
> I'm having an issue downloading using sftp (in gftp).  It's slow.  I
> believe it have something to do with not using multiple threads to
> download as when i use cuteftp in windows i get 10x speed increase.
>
> If I had 10 directories to download i could drag each one over and it
> would start 10 transfers.  But I want it to start 10 transfers even if
> I pull 1 directory down (with many files in).
>
> I hope this make sense.
>
> Any help is much appreiciated.
>
> Cheers,
> Kristian

Hello.

I don't know whether they would work with CentOS, but have you looked at 
kftpgrabber (Homepage: http://www.kftp.org) and lftp 
(http://lftp.yar.ru/)?

Those are some of the FTP clients that I found in using Synaptic (the 
Debian Linux GUI package manager), when I searched for ftp client.

I switched to kftpgrabber, when I had my previous problem with gftp and 
Passive Mode (as I posted to the list).It was the only way that I found 
to upload files to my web sites, the hosting of which now requires 
Extended (?) Passive Mode.

I hope that this helps.

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Bret Busby
Armadale
West Australia
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