[lug] Is ssh alway slower?

[Michael J. Pedersen]

On Mon, Oct 09, 2000 at 08:59:45AM -0600, Glenn Murray wrote:
> 1. Does ssh have much overhead (vs. telnet)?  What about scp?

They, by their nature, must be slower, though not necessarily in doing
staright data transfer. The slow down happens becaue all data is encrypted,
and even very fast encryption goes very slow. While I'm not sure of the speed
difference, I know that they are slower, even though I've never actually
observed the difference in my usage.

> 2. What sort of things were you doing with MindTerm that you would notice
> it being slow?  I've mostly used ssh for opening remote terminals, but
> haven't noticed that MindTerm is slower than OpenSSH.

Using mutt, and scrolling through lists of email messages. Page Up/Page Down
was broken, so I had to use the arrow keys, and deliberately release them
periodically, so that the display could catch up. Not something I'm used to,
and not something I like. Screen updates were noticeably slower than with
other ssh tools.

> 3. Is there a nifty gui for scp like gnome ftp (gftp) is for ftp?  Or 
> is there some way to get gftp to work through ssh?

Not that I'm aware of.

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