comp.os.linux.networking

"Ignoramus16148" wrote in message
news:EqWdnYILIYOE-HXanZ2dnUVZ_v_inZ2d@giganews.com...
> On 2008-03-25, AZ Nomad wrote:
>> On Mon, 24 Mar 2008 20:35:11 -0500, Ignoramus16148
>> wrote:
>>>I am on a good network here. I need to copy a bunch of AVI from a
>>>laptop to my basement server. Wired network. HTTP test yields about 6
>>>megabytes per second transfer speed.
>>
>>>SCP is only doing 188 kB per second, or 36 times slower.
>>
>>>I am copying from Ubuntu Hardy to Fedora 7.
>>
>>>WTF, how can I debug this. Thanks.
>> do a google search for "scp performance"?
>>
>> Use NFS instead of SCP?
>
> I want to use SCP. It is a bad security to se NFS in this manner.
>

if you don't get it sorted out, I've had pretty good luck with:
rsync -e ssh ...

there's some documentation referenced from:
http://rsync.samba.org/documentation.html

regards,
mark