20 kb/s as max with TCPonly

Guus Sliepen guus at tinc-vpn.org
Mon Dec 4 20:38:47 CET 2006


On Mon, Dec 04, 2006 at 06:42:25PM +0100, EleGoS wrote:

> Today I've tried a FTP connection (me with TCPOnly send file to another 
> no TCPOnly), but the upload bandwidth was about 20 kb/s, while 
> connecting to the other directly (I upload a file to him via FTP) the 
> connection was about 5 times faster... what's wrong?

Because you are using TCPOnly, your FTP connection, which is a TCP
connection in itself, is being tunneled over another TCP connection.
This is bad for performance, see:

http://sites.inka.de/~W1011/devel/tcp-tcp.html

-- 
Met vriendelijke groet / with kind regards,
     Guus Sliepen <guus at tinc-vpn.org>
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