On Aug 27, 2010, at 5:24 PM, Mike Miller <mbmiller+l at gmail.com> wrote:
> It is tricky to time it, though.  If I do this:
> 
> time dd if=/dev/zero bs=1M count=1000 | ssh user at server cat - > /dev/null
> 
> The time to enter the password gets counted in the "real" time.
> 
> Anyway, testing from office (at the U) to home (Qwest 40 Mbps, 
> supposedly), it is *way* faster with -C than without.  It took about 50% 
> longer to send 20 MB without -C than to send 200 MB (ten times the data) 
> with -C.  So I can get up to 15x improvement with -C.
> 
> Mike

What about using an ssh key so you don't need to enter the password.

-Adam