[lug] ssh compression

[Hugh Brown]

I am doing an over the net backup of a mail server over an ssh tunnel. 
The bandwidth that it is consuming is killing me.  Is there any way to
throttle it down?  Would using the compression option in ssh help me or
hurt me (the man page says it would slow it down, but I don't know if
that means less bandwidth, longer download or same bandwidth, longer
download).

This is being done over a 1Mbps DSL line (on both ends).

TIA,

Hugh