Slow Download Speeds

[pdxgy]

I recently purchased Yummy watcher.  After I got it all setup I've noticed that i'm getting super slow transfer speeds compared to my previous client.  My home connection is 50/10 and the server i'm downloading from is 10Gbit/s.  When i'm using yummy watcher, i'm averaging about about 250 KB/s using SFtp.  When I switch back to my old client (LFTP) I average 1.5-3 Mbps. Items that used to only take a few minutes are taking hours.   Any suggestion on settings i could change to speed things up?

[JD]

Watcher doesn't use multiple connections for a transfer job with multiple files, whereas Yummy FTP itself does (and probably LFTP too) but then Watcher isn't really just a client, it's an automated transfer agent. If you're seeing this difference with a single large file that would be a different matter - is that the case? If so, please test the same with Yummy FTP and any other FTP client for Mac to see what speeds are reported.

[pdxgy]

Thanks for the reply.  Its was a single file.  I tested several FTP clients including Yummy FTP.  All of them performed pretty slow when i use SFTP.  When i go to standard FTP i get 1-1.5mbps.  Not sure why LFTP performs so much better using SFTP.  I'll keep playing with it.

[JD]

I'll have a look at LFTP. Command line only is a bit of a put-off but I'm intrigued how it can be so very different in speed to every other client without compromising security / encryption along the way.