> I suspect that the problem lies with scp. On my local network I > experience transfer rates of less than 200kB/s with scp because the > server is an old Pentium 133 with not enough horse power. With plain > old rcp I get up to 6MB/s on a 100MB (half duplex?) link.
try the -c blowfish option. I manage about a meg a second on an old p133 as well, when i use that. horribly slow otherwise. scp is pretty cpu intensive, seeing as how it's encrypting everything.
