Compression also slows it down: http://www.spikelab.org/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-compared/ http://www.spikelab.org/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarn

Compression also slows it down: http://www.spikelab.org/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-compared/ http://www.spikelab.org/transfer-largedata-scp-tarssh-tarnc-... This has been my experience in practice, too.