If you wondered why your Seedbox is slow, you came to the right place.

Upload speed depends on a lot of factors. From our end, short fluctuations of the network connection will also in a turn cause a sudden drop or burst in speed.

If they occur, they will be short-lived and will stabilize in just a few minutes. If a serious drop in network speed happens, we always get a report of this incident so we can respond and resolve the issue at the soonest possible time.

Seedbox Statistics

To monitor your speeds for the past days, please use the “Statistics” tab from your Control Panel and choose the time span from a few hours to a few days. Click here to learn how to monitor your Seedbox speed.

It’s a good idea to check the speeds on a daily basis rather than in an hourly time span considering temporary fluctuations that happen during some hours of the day.

Demand and Peering

A few other things that affect your speed outside our scope are the demand of the torrents and the peering from your tracker.

A decline or increase in speed for a torrent in a matter of a few days to a week is quite common.

If you are seeding new torrents, the demand from peers is very high and the response of your BitTorrent client will be to connect and seed data as much as possible.

After a few days, a lot of your peers will become seeders themselves thereby increasing availability and greatly decreasing demand.

Server Downtime

One important factor from the tracker side is the downtime of their servers.

This may not mean the complete unavailability of the tracker.

A lot of times, only a few torrents experience peering issues for a few hours. Hardware used on servers have their own limits and handling hundreds, if not thousands of torrents daily will surely bring temporary issues to trackers.

A combination of other little factors that contribute to variations is speed. If you feel the overall usage of your seedbox is very slow, let us know by opening a ticket in your client area.

FTP Slow speed

Increasing speeds and performing speed tests:

The following guides may solve your issue with slow FTP downloads:

Switch Between FTP, FTPS, and SFTP Protocols

Different protocols can yield varying speed results based on your network and system configuration. Try switching between FTP, FTPS, and SFTP to see which protocol offers the best performance.

Use Multiple Connections in FTP/FTPS

Enabling multiple connections during file transfers can significantly increase throughput. Configure your file transfer client to allow multiple parallel connections when transferring files via FTP/FTPS.

Clarify Speed Metrics: MB/s vs Mbit/s

Speed is often measured in either Megabytes per second (MB/s) or Megabits per second (Mbit/s). Check the unit being displayed, as this could lead to confusion about actual transfer rates.

Is There Any Throttling?

No, RapidSeedbox does not throttle the transfer speeds for FTP/SFTP connections. Any consistent or slow speeds experienced are likely due to other factors, such as protocol settings, your internet connection, or client configuration.