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Better Support Large File Transfers

Matthew Swanson 9 years ago updated by Dan Cauchois 3 months ago 12 2 duplicates

We regularly transfer fairly large files from our customers to our agents (typically large log files or database files) using the file transfer controls. During the transfer, the session become very laggy and unusable. We suspect this is because all of the available bandwidth is used for the file transfer.


We'd like to see an enhancement to restrict file transfer bandwidth either per session with an in-session control or to detect when other activity is happening in the client and implement a QoS-like solution to protect the control traffic.

Duplicates 2

Better Support Large File Transfers is essentially a duplicate of this request.

Until ScreenConnect can implement something I would suggest using QoS on your firewall to prioritize certain types of traffic or put file transfers at the bottom of the list and give everything else priority over it.

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I'd like to add that what was considered to be a "large" file six years ago when this suggestion was added is probably no longer considered a large file by 2022 standards. Internet speeds have increased dramatically since then. The remote connection is sluggish and slow even for small file transfers. 

Just adding onto this post. We have been using Automate with ScreenConnect for years and the file transfer has been great, we have always used the toolbox and transferred files where required to the remote computer.

We are moving away from Automate with ScreenConnect to another product with ScreenConnect and therefore have needed to setup a brand new ScreenConnect instance. We have been slightly disappointed that file / toolbox transfers via ScreenConnect sessions with the new instance is drastically slower than before. We have tested with the same computer on a 1GBps connection each side and the old ScreenConnect session transfer would max out at about 100mbps, our new ScreenConnect instance max's out at about 20mbps. When transferring installation files etc this is noticeably slower.

It would be great to see the increase in bandwidth able to transfer via a remote session to something similar to what we had before.