ewheeler,AT,kaico,DOT,com writes:
> Would there be any appreciable performance increase over low bandwidth
> lines if the packets were compressed using zlib before they were
> encrypted?
It doesn't do that much good. But it helps a little.
As a comparison point, experiment a bit with ssh, using different
compression levels in .ssh/config, e.g.
Host your.chosen.test.destination.host
Compression yes
CompressionLevel 9
Try various digits, and do some large file copying over your slow link
with scp. Time the results.