B2 vs GCS speed expectations

[cdhowie]

This thread might be helpful, as it documents the restriction and the future plans to solve it.

-o b2.connections=N seems to have no impact

Hi, (latest restic: 0.9.3, on debian 9, sufficient RAM and disk space) as I’m in EU and ping delay to backblaze is about 180ms, I need concurrent connections. Having tried settings of 10, 50, 100 and 500, I see no difference: the number of connections really open to backblaze (as reported by netstat -an | grep EST | grep 443 and filtering out the non-backblaze connections), is mostly 3, and sometimes goes to 5. Irrespective of -o b2.connections=... Also (but that is not the issue, my questio…