I can confirm that nemo sftp is painfully slow. I hadn't paid attention to it until recently, but it's transferring at around 30 kb/s. The same transfer using filezilla fstp is at least 10 times faster.
Ubuntu 15.04 AMD 64 Nemo 2.2.4 GVFS 1.24.1-1ubuntu1
I can confirm that nemo sftp is painfully slow. I hadn't paid attention to it until recently, but it's transferring at around 30 kb/s. The same transfer using filezilla fstp is at least 10 times faster.
Ubuntu 15.04 AMD 64
Nemo 2.2.4
GVFS 1.24.1-1ubuntu1