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Re: cURL downloading speed

From: Dan Fandrich <dan_at_coneharvesters.com>
Date: Fri, 1 Jul 2005 10:32:49 -0700

On Fri, Jul 01, 2005 at 05:01:51PM +0200, Gonzalo wrote:
> My problem is that I have an FTP server, and using the standard ftp
> windows client I am able to download files at 30 Kbps in average. But
> using cURL, I am not able to download them more than at 5 Kbps. Is there
> any way of configuring the speed (maybe resizing the TPC window)?

Are you measuring the speed consistently between the two applications? Are
you looking at just the data transfer portion or at the connection setup
time as well? Curl does a bit of automatic negotiation when it establishes
a connection which could affect the total time on a high latency link.

>>> Dan
Received on 2005-07-01