You could try "-c blowfish", which uses a lighter encryption so there is 
less overhead.
Also, depending on the type of data and the speed of the connection, you 
may have luck with the compression "-C" option.

-Charles

Bryan O'Neal wrote:
> I am working on remote machines a lot lately, and while I have killer 
> pipes at one end, and fairly good pipes at the other end, using X11 
> aps like fire fox is down right painful.  Any way to speed it up 
> through my ssh_conf or sshd_conf files?  I typically login in using -X 
> -Y, but it will take upwards of two minutes just to launch firefox.
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