On Tue, 07 Nov 2006 03:57:28 -0800, chrisg wrote:

> Hi All,
> I've got SSH/SSL (OpenSSH_4.3p2, OpenSSL 0.9.7l 28 Sep 2006)
> running under AIX 5.3 (TL5, SP3). It is running on a 9112-265 with
> 2.5Gb RAM and runs nicely.
>
> Logging on takes no time what so ever. Sub second.
>
> The machine is connected to the Lan at 100Mb/s (verified from
> entstat). It it connected via putty from an XP box, also at 100Mb/s.
>
> File transfers using psftp or pscp (putty's secure ftp and cp
> respectively) are running at about 20Kb/s!
>
> The transfer via normal FTP is fine.
>
> When the sftp/scp transfers are taking place, the CPU, network and
> disk are not being overly loaded. CPU is <10%, disk is <20%.
>
> This is driving me nuts!
>
> Most of what I've read is about slow logons, which is not my
> problem.
>
> Anyone have any suggestions?
>
> -Chris

What version of PuTTY are you using? Older versions had a slow transfer
problem. If you don't already have the latest (0.58) and try again.