Please consider using Unison or rsync for this. Both can use block-level checksums to make updates far more efficient. And unison handles the issues with merging changes very well.
Regards, Tyler On 2013-06-17 11:08, Nigel Verity wrote: > Hi > > I use Filezilla a lot to transfer data between a desktop and a netbook, via > a wireless router. Sometimes these files are big (> 300 MB). > > With small files there are no problems regardless of which direction the > transfer goes, or whether I am "pushing" or "pulling". With large files, > however, the transfer often stalls and the connection times out if I am > "pushing" the data from the desktop to the netbook. The same file "pulled" > from the netbook end always transfers trouble-free. > > My instinct suggests that there is something wrong with the SSH server > running on the netbook - a configuration setting perhaps. Unfortunately I > don't know enough about the finer points of SSH to take it any further. > > The netbook has 1 Gb RAM, while the desktop has 4Gb. Both are running 12.04. > > Any suggestions, please? > > Thanks > > Nige > > -- "It is an interesting and demonstrable fact, that all children are atheists and were religion not inculcated into their minds, they would remain so." -- Ernestine Rose -- ubuntu-uk@lists.ubuntu.com https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-uk https://wiki.ubuntu.com/UKTeam/