On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, P Lanvin wrote:
> I Sent a 50MB file (from host a to host b) with scp and got ~185kb/s
> over a 100Mbit switched full duplex LAN.
>
> With ftp, the result is ~1000kb/s (10632.27).
ftp does not have to turn your files into carefully-crafted line noise
prior to delivery, nor turn it back when delivered. scp has an enourmous
overhead. 185k/sec is not so bad.
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