[geeks] Network Slowness

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Caleb Shay wrote:
> On 5/24/07, Sridhar Ayengar <ploopster at gmail.com> wrote:
>> Patrick Giagnocavo wrote:
> 
>>> What protocol are you using for transfers?  SSH? FTP?
>> OpenSSH SFTP using Blowfish ciphers.
>>
> 
> SSH has a massive overhead in processing, data size, and checksumming,
> you can't use that for your testing.  For raw throughput, use
> something like netcat

Massive enough to slow a 1000Mbps connection to below 50Mbps?  No way.

Peace...  Sridhar