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Hi Does edtFTPnet/PRO support simultaneous downloads?
can't find any mention of it...

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Malcom

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Through a single connection only one transfer is possible.
If you want simultaneous downloads, you'll have to implement a connection pool yourself I think.

An edt person could probably provide more info on that.

I have been thinking about that myself, but not implemented it yet as time constraints don't permit.
It seems to me the best way to go about it is to create a array of x connection instances and their availability (x = configurable, say 5)
Simultaneously, create a job queue.
Whenever the available connections >0 take a job from the queue and give it to an available queue.

The reason why I'm not going there yet is that currently, I don't even have enough ports available for Winsock to use one connection at full speed.
Because more simultaneous connections, means more used ports on your machine …
So you might consider looking in to that first, before you start this all.

Please keep me updated.
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Boris is correct - you need a connection pool which we don't yet provide.

It is coming soonish - we will in the next week or so release a new version of our Java product that supports connection pooling (edtFTPj/PRO 2.0) - and we intend to follow up with a connection pool model for edtFTPnet/PRO and edtFTPnet/Express.

Boris also has good advice re port usage - if a single connection is using up all of your ports because you are doing many rapid transfers, multiple connections will not help you.

In many instances asynchronous transfers on a single connection will provide much of what you probably require.
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Hi Bruce

Any update on the connection pooling / simultaneous downloads feature for ftpnet/pro?

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Malcom
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It's coming soon - in fact it is already implemented but needs a bit more testing before unleashing it.
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Would be nice :)
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Any anticipated time frame?

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malcom
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We hope by the end of Feb - if interested in beta testing please send an email to support@...
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Hi Bruce

Does 6.1.0 cover connection pooling?


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malcom
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No. It is coming soon though - already implemented and undergoing a lot of testing.
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The Concurrent Transfers (aka "connection pooling", aka "transfer queue", aka "simultaneous downloads") feature is now ready for beta-testing.

Please e-mail us at support@enterprisedt.com if you'd like to have a play with it.

Thanks
- Hans (EnterpriseDT)

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