Hello,
I have searched the forum for similar question but did not find an answer.
Some download clients allow you to download the same file in a several connections. Under certain scenarios it can speed up the download speed tens of times. In particular when you are downloading a file from A to B, anywhere between A and B could be a place that is limiting the speed of a single connection. If, however you use 10 connections to download the same file you observe ten times the speed. This is based on personal observations.
I’m downloading files via syncthing, from A to B (that is there are only two peers here, for the sake of this post, A and B). And I can see that syncthing is only opening a single connection. Somewhere along the way there is a limit on this connection, I can reproduce the same limit by downloading a single file over HTTP(s) if I download 2 files or a single file with 2 connections I can double the speed.
I’m looking into what I can do with syncthing so that it uses more than one connection between A and B instead of trying to transfer everything in the confines of a single connection.
Any help is welcome.
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