[X-Unix] Re: Pokey LAN transfers (Resolved)

[TjL]

On 12/27/07, Richard Hartman <seasoft at west.net> wrote:

> - Unmounting the LAN volume and instead using scp or rsync (and the
> IP address of the source mac) produced the expected transfer rate of
> 100 megabits/sec, which was the speed limit expected by the slowest
> network element in the loop (the 100 mbps nic on one of the macs).


Someone else had suggested FTP.  Would it work similarly well?

I don't know much about this, but it would seem to me that scp would
be slower if there's encryption going on.  rsync would, I assume, be
faster than scp, but would rsync and ftp be comparable?

Am I off-base?

Thanks

TjL