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Thanks Bernhard,
I will now concentrate on sftp conections over the Internet.
Please note that occasional dropped packets over the Internet is a fact of life, not a comment on the quality of connection (unless it gets bad).
The fact that it sometimes works and sometimes doesn't is what leads me to believe it's a random event that causes it and the network is the "usual suspect". I'm not sure yet but it just seems most likely.
We can estimate the dropped packet rate with ping. Ping the server and let it run for oh 20 min then hit cntrl C. You'll get a report like:
204 packets transmitted, 204 received, 0% packet loss, time 203321ms
rtt min/avg/max/mdev = 23.048/
Some routers do not pass the ping (ICMP) packets but if it works for you it will give us an idea of how well it works.
One more thing we can try is the command line sftp. Do you have any problems connecting and doing an ls command. That is how Nautilus gets its list of files to display, pretty much. I'm not sure if there's any difference in error handling.
Joe