Bug: transfers are incredibly slow about pairdrop HOT 10 OPEN

Thanks for reporting! The slow speed is browser specific as the bottleneck is the webrtc implementation. I will play around with the code to try to increase the webrtc bandwidth and keep you updated.

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Same here, pairdrop.net and self-hosted docker transfer from mobile to desktop and other devices getting capped at 300-400KB/s.

I tested on another app called sharedrop.io and got full speed of the device connection. I looked around at their code seems like something to do with the webrtc chunks setting https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop/blob/master/app/services/web-rtc.js

I prefer pairdrop ui/ux over others, hope the speed issue can be resolved.

Yeah, and I am using LocalSend. You may want to have a try because of its ui.

:)

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Does this only happen on paired devices?
Devices that are behind a NAT need a TURN server to establish the peer-to-peer connection. Apparantly the public turn server is quite slow.

Try this to bypass the need for a TURN server: https://github.com/schlagmichdoch/PairDrop/blob/master/docs/faq.md#transferring-many-files-with-paired-devices-takes-too-long

If you self-host you can also run your own stun and turn server which should increase the speed a lot if done right.
See this issue for more info: #32

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I tested on two different browsers on the same PC and still experienced the slow speeds

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Is this still the case for you? Have you done some additional testing? Have you tried hosting your own instance?

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Same for me. Tried to send a 200MB video but it was indeed incredibly slow. Devices are on the same network. Any way I can tell if it's using a direct connection or if it's trying to use the public turn server?

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I have since added a new TURN server for pairdrop.net that should increase the transfer speed.
Could you try again @chadoe @nealhead ?

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I have since added a new TURN server for pairdrop.net that should increase the transfer speed. Could you try again @chadoe @nealhead ?

Sorry but the speed is still very slow (about 2M/s even 500k/s) although I am using my mobile's hotspot (wifi6 5ghz).

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Same here, pairdrop.net and self-hosted docker transfer from mobile to desktop and other devices getting capped at 300-400KB/s.

I tested on another app called sharedrop.io and got full speed of the device connection. I looked around at their code seems like something to do with the webrtc chunks setting https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop/blob/master/app/services/web-rtc.js

I prefer pairdrop ui/ux over others, hope the speed issue can be resolved.

from pairdrop.

Same here, pairdrop.net and self-hosted docker transfer from mobile to desktop and other devices getting capped at 300-400KB/s.

I tested on another app called sharedrop.io and got full speed of the device connection. I looked around at their code seems like something to do with the webrtc chunks setting https://github.com/szimek/sharedrop/blob/master/app/services/web-rtc.js

I prefer pairdrop ui/ux over others, hope the speed issue can be resolved.

Yeah, and I am using LocalSend. You may want to have a try because of its ui.

:)

And high speed

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