Download speed limit capped with PogoPlug?

[evhoria]

My PogoPlug seems to have a capped speed limit downloading files from the internet and even from local machines. I'm using deluge and ProFTP to test. Every time I download a file into PogoPlug, the max speed I get is 3 MB/s. When I upload a file from PogoPlug to another machine, I'm able to get 10 MB/s. I don't think this is a network issue. Is this an expected behavior with PogoPlug? If so, are there any work around to increase the download speed?

[moonman]

look at the CPU load when you download/upload. If it's at 100% then there is your cap.

[WarheadsSE]

What is the file system on the destination drive @ the pogoplug?

[evhoria]

What is the file system on the destination drive @ the pogoplug?

I'm using ext2. I still need to figure out how to convert it to ext3 to avoid file corruption.

BTW - Yes download uses 100% CPU. Good call on that. Why does that happen for download but not upload? Is there any way around that?

[WarheadsSE]

Are you using SFTP/FTPS ?

[evhoria]

I'm using SFTP. The CPU download performance is not exclusive to the FTP server. I also have deluge running and I am experiencing the same issue when I have torrents downloading.

[WarheadsSE]

So you are using ProFTPD to do SFTP ... instead of just sshd?

Does deluge do anything cryptographic ?

[evhoria]

So you are using ProFTPD to do SFTP ... instead of just sshd?

Does deluge do anything cryptographic ?

ProFTPD is setup to the defaults as of now. I'm not sure if deluge is doing any cryptographic.

[moonman]

Deluge does crypto either way because many people on the other end require encryption. You may want to install openssl-cryptodev

[hpglow]

Deluge does crypto either way because many people on the other end require encryption. You may want to install openssl-cryptodev

I put cryptodev on my device and the CPU% went way down. I would recomend it to anyone.