[Asus eeePC] Best practice for moving files over the LAN

[Heike C. Zimmerer]

Amichai Rotman <amichai at iglu.org.il> writes:

> Hello all,
>
> I just bought myself an Asus eeePC 1000HE. First thing I did was to
> wipe the drive clean and install EasyPeasy 1.1 on it.
>
> I'd like to transfer a few Gigs of data files to it. I have connected
> it to my home router via Ethernet.
>
> I am looking for the best way to transfer the files over.

That depends.  NFS, Samba, scp, ..., to neame o few.

> For now I have set an FTP server on my home desktop running Kubuntu
> 9.04 and used the 'ftp://' URL in a Nautilus window on the laptop.
>
> It takes a ling time, since the transfer rate is 7.4MB/s.

I assume your network runs at 100 Mb/s.  Then your network will always
be the bottleneck since you cannot get more than abt. 12MB/s out of it.
A file which now needs, say, 30 mins will use at least 20 mins even with
the best transfer method.

Heike