At 4:19 PM -0600 3/29/2002, Gerry Creager N5JXS wrote:
as an additional, but not objectively confirmed datapoint, scp and sftp
perform faster for me than ftp between identical machines.
scp/sftp typically compress the data before encrypting it though the
default setting varies by platform/version. Over a slow connection
but using fast machines this can greatly increase transfer rates if
your data is compressible by a large amount. If the machine is slow
and the network fast, then the overhead of the compression can
actually slow things down. compression can be enabled/disabled by
command line options.
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