Thanks for your reply nou!

I had too many consoles open when testing network performance and was actually running the iperf client and sever on the same machine! So apologies for the incorrect information. The actual rate is 30-40Mbits/sec as you expected. I remotely copied a 33MByte fits file using scp, to remove all variables, and that still took 55s. So the 90s is not looking too bad now. As you indicate I will need to obtain a higher band width to work Kstars as a client into a remote INDI sever. Otherwise its remote desk topping or
run a copper cable.

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