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Re: Whatever happend to compression?
> telnet
>
> This is hard to compress since the packets are already so small to
> begin with, and the traffic is fairly low speed anyway.
My experience from SSH is that for terminal sessions, compression
reduces the amount of data transmitted in the server->client direction
to about a third. That is the direction in which most of the data
flows. You update the entire screen very often.
Tatu
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