On Wed, 24 Nov 2010, Rudi Ahlers wrote: > root at zaxen02.securehosting.co.za:/vm/xen/template/centos-5-x64-cpanel > root at zaxen02.securehosting.co.za:/ > root at zaxen02.securehosting.co.za's password: > centos-5-x64-cpanel.tar.gz > 100% 1163MB > 29.1MB/s 00:40 Are you using scp here? You'll find you get better throughput if you use something else, or change the cipher to something lighter weight jh