How to improve the Performance of FtpWebRequest?

Question

I have an application written in .NET 3.5 that uses FTP to upload/download files from a server. The app works fine but there are performance issues:

1. It take

Answer 1

Personally I have migrated all of our apps away from using FTP for file upload/download, and instead rolled a solution based on XML Web Services in ASP.NET.

Performance is much improved, security is as much or as little as you want to code (and you can use the stuff built in to .NET) and it can all go over SSL with no issues.

Our success rate getting our clients' connections out through their own firewalls is FAR better than running FTP.