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Is your feature request related to a problem? Please describe.
Improving file transfer speed. The object of this application is to provide a fast and secure alternative to file transfers and management.

Describe the solution you'd like
In order to improve speed and performance of file transfers I'd like to create a transfer socket. The socket could be linked to the existing transfer manager.

Each transfer socket could handle a one way file transfer and use the TCP stream as a dedicated source for the files data. This would remove the need to parse the file chunks as part of the regular FFT Protocol commands. Ideally these sockets should be configurable from the preferences menu in order to control many sockets are allowed to be created and any additional settings.

Describe alternatives you've considered

• UDP Sockets for File Transfers (can be unreliable and require additional changes to the transfer system)
• Disable all other TCP traffic while a file transfer is in progress to allow the the transfer to take full control of the tcp network stream

Additional context
If implemented, additional constraints may need to be investigated as utilizing multiple sockets and io streams could cause degraded performance on lower end systems that wont be able to handle that much data I/O (network, memory or even disk related).