From: Francois Felix Ingrand <felix@dial.oleane.com>
Subject: Re: ssh rulez
Date: 31 Mar 1998 18:37:36 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <8690pq95pr.fsf@dial.oleane.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen's message of "28 Mar 1998 10:16:13 +0200"
Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen <larsi@gnus.org> writes:
> Someone told me that ssh was quite good at compressing things, so I
> switched compression on and used the following select method:
>
> (nntp "news"
> (nntp-address "copper.uio.no")
> (nntp-rlogin-program "ssh")
> (nntp-open-connection-function nntp-open-rlogin)
> (nntp-end-of-line "\n")
> (nntp-rlogin-parameters
> ("telnet" "news.uio.no" "nntp")))
>
by default, ssh does not compress... you need to invoke it with -C or
specify Compression yes in the config file.
> And things go *way* faster over my 33.6k modem. I use the Gnus Agent
> to download, and this, like, halves the time it takes to download
> stuff.
You should thus get event a better thruput...
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~1998-03-31 16:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
1998-03-28 8:16 Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-28 16:43 ` Harry Putnam
1998-03-28 17:14 ` Bud Rogers
1998-03-28 19:17 ` Richard Hoskins
1998-03-29 8:04 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-29 19:39 ` Felix Lee
1998-03-29 20:12 ` Bud Rogers
1998-03-29 20:38 ` Felix Lee
1998-03-30 20:05 ` Richard Hoskins
1998-03-29 21:36 ` Alan Shutko
1998-03-30 13:01 ` Robert Bihlmeyer
1998-03-31 16:37 ` Francois Felix Ingrand [this message]
1998-04-01 14:06 ` Lars Magne Ingebrigtsen
1998-03-31 21:46 ` Manoj Srivastava
1998-04-15 3:50 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-04-22 18:27 ` Eric Hendrickson
1998-04-26 11:44 ` Eze Ogwuma
1998-07-12 19:07 ` Eric D. Hendrickson
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