On Thu, Jul 8, 2010 at 12:19 PM, Mohamed Khaleel <[email protected]>wrote:
> Hi, > > I have 2 laptops and 1 PC at home running Ubuntu. All these are connected > to a wireless router for the internet usage. > When I try to copy a file from a shared folder of other laptop, the whole > of data passes through the router. > Yes, It should pass through wireless router unless you connect 2 systems via wired connection directly > This affects the internet bandwidth within the network. > > Is there a way to access the shared files without necessarily going through > the router and also without affecting the internet connectivity. > If you are using GUI to access files from different machine, then I do not know how to limit the bandwidth usage, but there is an alternate way using *scp *command which can be used to transfer files with *-l* option So I suggest you to use *scp -l* to find out more *man scp * > > Regards, > Khaleel > > -- > ubuntu-in mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.ubuntu.com/mailman/listinfo/ubuntu-in > >
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