Hi Alfred, did someone forward the Problems written above to the proftpd "Engeneers"? As I know this pretty lightweight server is open source. Therefor I guess there´s @least a moderate Group who can give some input to problem (not the solution - this might be like christmas ;-)) greetz. Sven -----Ursprüngliche Nachricht----- Von: nas-2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx [mailto:nas-2000-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Im Auftrag von Alfred Bruckner Gesendet: Mittwoch, 27. Februar 2008 15:08 An: nas-2000@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Betreff: [nas-2000] Slow ftp bin transfer problem Hello, we are trying to find a solution for the "slow ftp bin transfer problem" There is also a German post at the nas2000 forum: http://nas2000.homeunix.com/thread.php?postid=464#post464 Many users have the problem that ftp download through an internet connection from the NAS may be very slow. Test setup: PC - Internet - ADSL modem - Router - Switch - NAS Port forwarding (20,21) is configured for modem and router. I traced the packets sent/received from NAS (connected sniffer with HUB between Switch and NAS) What I know already: - ascii mode transfer is fast, bin mode may be slow - on local net ftp is fast - it is caused from too large packets sent from the nas NAS always use packet size like if MTU=1500 e.g. NAS sends two large and one small packet - the two large ones are rejected with "fragmentation needed" and the smaller one passes --> retransmission... - MTU setting of ifconfig is ignored by ftp in bin mode In ascii mode packet size is reduced accordingly - MSS setting of route command is ignored - MSS setting with SocketOptions in proftpd.conf is ignored - most PPPoE connections need a setting of MTU=1492 because of 8 bytes overhead. That corresponds to MSS=1452. - same behaviour for Tinky and RS Firmware What I don't know: - how to tell proftp or the NAS to reduce the packet size as if MTU=1492 Any ideas? HWguru (Alfred)