Rogers... or what?

Mon Apr 7 11:52:46 UTC 2008

On Sat, Apr 05, 2008 at 12:06:17PM -0400, Zbigniew Koziol wrote:
>To check if something is perhaps wrong with the internet connection, I
>went to download an iso file of ubuntu. At the same time when my scp
>was 40 kB/s I got 600 kB/s from http download!

Comparing ssh and http is somewhat of an apples to oranges moment.
There is a lot of overhead in ssh compared to http.  Ssh is further
degraded if any Windows hosts are involved.

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