[cvsnt] Re: Compressed packets ?

[Tony Hoyle]

On Tue, 2 Mar 2004 08:02:37 -0500, "Martin Cole"
<mj_cole_2000 at hotmail.com> wrote:

>
>Can anyone tell me how well the "request compression" works.
>
>Like, would it speed up the transfer of a project with many small files, or just speedup transfer of large files.
>
It depends on the speeds of the machines on both ends of the link, and
the speed of the link.

eg. over a dialup connection compression makes quite a bit of
difference (saving an average 50% with text files) 

Over a 100MB network it's much less certain - if your server is only a
P700 or similar the time taken doing the compression may not be worth
the saving... it's quicker to let the network take the load.

Tony