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

Look at this page - http://www.ietf.org/rfc/rfc959.txt

It says of using different port when connecting to be able to reuse the connection.
Does that work?