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