Re: Slow SCP speeds

From: bards (bards1888_at_yahoo.com.au.au)
Date: 09/28/04

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    No More Spam wrote:
    > I've got a nagging problem that I just cannot seem to solve. I have
    > three machines all attached to a Dell 2216 switch. I get fantastic
    > speeds over FTP between the XP and Debian machine - 95 Mb/s up and 99
    > Mb/s down. This leads me to believe all the cables, nics and hardware
    > are good.
    >
    > The problem is between the XP and OBSD 3.5 machine. If I try to transfer
    > data using the SCP protocol I cannot get better than 7 Mb/s. I do not
    > want to run FTPD on the OBSD machine since it acts as my DSL firewall.
    > The OBSD machine is a P3, 500Mhz Celeron, 256MB RAM, 15GB ATA/66 drive
    > and a dual port Intel server nic running OBSD 3.5 and OpenSSH 3.9. I've
    > tried setting the nic to auto-select, and 100 Full-duplex. Either way it
    > makes no difference.
    >
    > I suspect it is something in software configuration, but I've run out of
    > ideas on what to check. Anyone here have some suggestions?
    >
    > Steve

    Are you using 'winscp' ?

    I had exactly the same issues using winscp.

    HTH.

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