[geeks] Network Slowness

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Michael Vergallen wrote:
>>> I work for a company that makes network backup software for virtual
>>> machines, I've done every test under the sun for checking network
>>> throughput :)  You will almost never see more than 20 MB/s on
>>> SSH/SCP/SFTP transfers, not matter how fast your media is.
>> Anyway, I'd be happy with 20MB/s.  I'm getting *5*.
>>
> 
> I would personally suspect the cables if you only get 5 MB/s on that 
> network ... I've had that happen to me on a network that I installed for 
> a client and it turned out to be bad cabling.

Good point.  I'll check the cabling tonight.

Peace...  Sridhar