SSH1 vs. SSH2 - compression level

[Tomasz Chmielewski]

Hello,

I was searching for this information virtually everywhere, but as I 
couldn't find it - I'm asking here.


I was wondering, why setting the Compression Level was removed in SSH2, 
and if on, is always set to 6.

In SSH1 it was possible to set the Compression Level from 1 to 9.

I have made some tests with Compression Levels using scp: SSH1, 
compression 9 (highest available for SSH1), vs. SSH2, compression 6 (the 
only available for SSH2), and, no wonder, SSH1 *always* won, no matter 
if it was tar'red /etc (lots of txt files), a long pdf file, or even 
long avi file.

Why not let the user what best suits him?

Or maybe there is some way to turn it on in SSH2?


Regards,

Tomasz Chmielewski