ftp transfer eats all my bandwidth
Every time I use Nautilus in my fedora 16 to connect (ftp with authentication) to a remote server and make an upload, it works but while the file is transfered from my machine to the remote server I have my upload bandwidth totally used (which I believe is the expected behavior) but downloading bandwidth is almost unused.
Here's come the annoying part: as a side effect my web navigation and any other incoming network traffic is incredibly slowed down. Loading a 100KB html page may take minutes.
Of course everything gets back to normality once the ftp upload ends. I already tried to re-nice (20) the ftp process to see if this will give a little more space/bandwidth to other processes (for example firefox) but it didn't work...
Any thoughts?
Are you on xDSL?
I recommend using FileZilla instead, with it you can limit your upload rate, and this way you will not choke your BW.
P.S Rule of thumb, limit your upload to 80% of your total upload BW.
i.e I have a Cable connection of 2.5Mb/250kb so i limit my upload to 25KiB
@The IceMan Blog Nice option, I did not know Filezilla had that option. I usually use scp .