[geeks] Network Slowness

[der Mouse]

> I have used these *same machines* running on the *same OS loads* with
> 100Mbps FDDI cards instead of gigabit ethernet cards and gotten
> better performance (2x faster) than I am getting now, *using
> OpenSSH*.

Ugh.  Then yes, the hardware, the driver(s), or both must be pretty
much crap.  (Or, I suppose, the cables or switch....)

It certainly does seem to eliminiate ssh overhead as the culprit. :)

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