Why is Windows Explorer a lot slower than FileZilla when doing FTP transfers?
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I created an FTP mapped drive on Windows 7 "add network location". It works fine except for one problem. The file transfer rate is way slower than FileZilla. Same local machine, same remote server, 45MB takes 5 minutes with the Win7 Network Place and 1:20 with FileZilla. I repeated the test 5 times…
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Fix for: Why is Windows Explorer a lot slower than FileZilla when doing FTP transfers?
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You can't do this, it has to do with very low buffer sizes that you can't change. Internet Explorer and Windows Explorer have a static buffer size of 4096 bytes that can't be changed, in comparison to that Filezilla has a buffer size of 256 KB. The …
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