Long-distance transfers slow due to connection cap
Syncthing transfers over a long-distance link stay slow because the 128 parallel connection cap cannot be raised, and users ask how to speed it up.
Tier II · Emerging Problems that are still building up.
4 public reports · first reported 31 August 2026 · last reported 31 August 2026
What's going wrong
A user syncing archives between two sites on different continents finds throughput rises as they add parallel connections, but the tool caps them at 128.
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