[Ssh-sftp-perl-users] sftp to a Microsoft server regularly hangs

[Howard, C. <Ho...@pr...>]

I'm trying to use perl sftp to connect with a remote site
and upload/download some files.  The remote server says
it is SSH Windows NT Server using protocol version 2.0.

If I do this in the middle of the night, presumably things
are quieter,  it usually goes through without a problem.
If I run my script during the day it gets through a few
steps (I have debugging turned on) but eventually just
seems to peter out during the negotiations, frequently
while doing something about "NEWKEYS".

Is there anything I can do on my end to make the protocol
negotiation and all of this stuff go more quickly?  in
the hopes of getting the connection established and 
my traffic completed in a reliable fashion.

Chris Howard