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Re: Whatever happend to compression?
>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.
I can buy that. Of course, you probably aren't saturating your link
(unless it's very slow) since at some point you have to read the stuff
you're receiving. Also, I'd expect that compression in ssh, which is
the application layer, works much better than compression at a lower
packet level since it can work on a very long stream. Anybody have
more precise figures on this point?
Phil
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