>> I'm looking at ssh to see if there isn't some way to speed it up for
>> cases like this, where the admins on both ends of the connection
>> are(a) trusted by everyone involved and (b) interested in doing so -
>> certainly for cases like single-user house LAN use.
> Why are you bothering to use SSH over a trusted LAN?

I don't know where you got the idea I was talking about trusted LANs.
Perhaps you think all "single-user house LAN"s are trusted?

> K.I.S.S. and use something like RSH!

No thanks.  Belt *and* suspenders.

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