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

i was working a few days with that... and speed was really low, nothing to compare with FileZilla... finally i solved with multithreads. 10 threads making connections for download gives me a good rate, maybe even could be improved more.. with a standar ftprequest configuration

PeticionFTP.ConnectionGroupName = "MyGroupName"
PeticionFTP.ServicePoint.ConnectionLimit = 4
PeticionFTP.ServicePoint.CloseConnectionGroup("MyGroupName")

PeticionFTP.KeepAlive = False 
PeticionFTP.UsePassive = False

PeticionFTP.UseBinary = True

PeticionFTP.Credentials = New NetworkCredential(lHost.User, lHost.Password)