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joetesta,

On a lan without going through a router, large block sizes will help, but once you use the Internet, the large blocks will cause fragmentation. Try using 1492 which is the most common packet size for routers on the Internet. If you are on a GigE Internet connection, I believe 14,920 can be used, but realize the first router that can't support that size will cause fragmentation.

Also realize that once more than one down-load is in progress, you may go over your bandwidth limit. On all of my Internet facing servers, I use the open source 'pure-ftpd' which allows bandwidth to be throttled by user, group, time of day, etc. You can chain-root the ftp session.

If you can't chance the server, then try to limit the number of concurrent ftp sessions and limit each individual ftp session to a value less than the max usage divided by the number of concurrent sessions.

Good Luck!

"Well done is better than well said." - Benjamin Franklin

In reply to Re: Using Net::FTP::Throttle by flexvault
in thread Using Net::FTP::Throttle by joetesta

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