How to improve the Performance of FtpWebRequest?

Question

I have an application written in .NET 3.5 that uses FTP to upload/download files from a server. The app works fine but there are performance issues:

1. It take

Answer 1

KeepAlive is working. FtpWebRequest caches connections inside, so they can be reused after some time. For details and explanation of this mechanism you can look to ServicePoint.

Another good source of information is to look into FtpWebRequest source (you can do it on VS2008).