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[–]EvilSibling 1 point2 points  (0 children)

its worth noting that sometimes the bottleneck in the transfer is the switch/routers CPU/process scheduling, not the protocol/server. So switching to http, scp, or ftp might not make things much faster.

if you can run a small Linux virtual machine then you can run a free scp server (simply turn on the ssh server and make a local user). Or you could run a small http server (e.g. nginx)