Transmission

Hello mathew
Thanks for your tests. Well you compare ftp with http. Note that this is about ftp vs TRANSMISSION DAEMON!
Best

renderbilly

I would like to add that in this scenario there is only one seeder and one leacher. Later there will be more but for us it is very important that is also works only with one seeder and one leacher. We use Transmission-daemon 2.84 and Ubuntu 14.04.2 LTS.

We tried it on a 1 Gig connection and found that we cannot max out the connection. For reference we download via FTP from the same server and this is usually 2 times faster. What were your experiences in the meantime?

We would like to use transmission to transfer very big files (6GB+) reliably from one to an other host. We work with very fast connections. In all our test setups FTP is about twice as fast as transmission torrents. For example:

6 GB file
FTP Transfer speed: ca. 45MByte/s
Transmission Torrent ...