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Re: Transfer of files from laptop to desktop



On Fri, 10 Oct 2003 at 01:35 GMT, Naitik Shah penned:
> Easiest would be to install ssh on your linux box, and use a SFTP
> client (many freely available) to connect to your linux box, and well,
> copy the files as if you're using ftp!
> 
> Can you get online from your laptop? I mean, can you ping anything
> else on the internet from your laptop? If not, the network
> configuration might not be working too well.
> 

Two things: 

One, ssh adds encryption overhead (I believe), so it will be slower than
a non-encrypted transfer (am I wrong here?)

Two, a friend sucked down a bunch of large files from my machine using
SFTP, then scp, and deemed scp much faster.

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