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Re: How to improve scp speed?


lin q wrote:
> Hi,
>  I have 2 Windows XP machines installed with latest cygwin. In using scp
> to copy some large chunk of data, I find that the speed is never over
> 180KB/s. The 2 machines are on the same giga bit sub network.
> 
>  I wonder if I can do something to improve the speed?

Perhaps enabling compression will help: scp -C ... (same network speed but
faster transmission times).

That is if the scp process is not CPU limited (either side).

HTH
-- 
René Berber


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