[NTLUG:Discuss] File transfers rehashed

[Courtney Grimland]

I started a thread a couple of weeks ago about file transfers on my home
LAN, and how SCP was ungodly slow, and FTP was only marginally better.

Well, I have since set up a Samba share, and file transfers using Samba
are much better, 2200 kilobits/sec compared with 500 with FTP and around
50 with SCP.

Still not what I would expect with the hardware I have, but much better
nonetheless.  I never would have thought that the SMB protocol would be
faster than FTP.

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