> Do a quick test to see if the blowfish algoritm gives higher speed. This > takes less cpu power to process than the default one. > I usually use that on low-end machines (I don't have a Mac, but I have > Amigas, 486's and 133MHz RS/6000's which sometimes need it, and an > AmigaOne which kinda doesn't need it (as it's running rather fast at > 700MHz :-) ) > > thanks for the reply,
after doing this, what sort of xfer speeds do you usualy get on your low-end machines? i still find it odd that i would get the same transfer speeds using sFTP on these two machines: the 8500/250 is nearly 3x faster than the 8100/100! any other ideas? thanks dylan