lin q wrote: > Hi, > I have 2 Windows XP machines installed with latest cygwin. In using scp > to copy some large chunk of data, I find that the speed is never over > 180KB/s. The 2 machines are on the same giga bit sub network. > > I wonder if I can do something to improve the speed?
Perhaps enabling compression will help: scp -C ... (same network speed but faster transmission times). That is if the scp process is not CPU limited (either side). HTH -- René Berber -- Unsubscribe info: http://cygwin.com/ml/#unsubscribe-simple Problem reports: http://cygwin.com/problems.html Documentation: http://cygwin.com/docs.html FAQ: http://cygwin.com/faq/