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Re: Low Transmission speed



Hi Thorsten,

On 02/18/17 23:47, Thorsten Nicklaus wrote:
> last day I register to tarsnap. Everything works, except the speed thing.
> Yesterday there was a upload rate around 0,5 MB/s.
> 
> Is the service everytime that slow? Because of the Amazon cloud I would expect
> a full upload rate about 3-5 MB/s. What is normal for this service? I'm from
> Germany, could that the reason?

Being in Germany will contribute -- your data needs to reach the tarsnap
service in the AWS us-east-1 region, not the region in Frankfurt.  You might
also find that the --aggressive-networking option helps, depending on exactly
where the bottleneck is.

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Colin Percival
Security Officer Emeritus, FreeBSD | The power to serve
Founder, Tarsnap | www.tarsnap.com | Online backups for the truly paranoid