# Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?

DevFeed: [Why does SSH send 100 packets per keystroke?](<https://devfeed.tech/articles/why-does-ssh-send-100-packets-per-keystroke-40771.md>)

Original publisher: [Read original article](<https://eieio.games/blog/ssh-sends-100-packets-per-keystroke>)

Author: Nolen Royalty (eieiogames@gmail.com)

Published: 2026-01-22T00:00:00Z

Content type: opinion

Language: en

Sources: [eieio.games](<https://devfeed.tech/sources/eieio-games.md>)

Topics: [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/ssh.md>), [debug](<https://devfeed.tech/topics/debug.md>)

Tags: [ssh](<https://devfeed.tech/tags/ssh.md>)

## AI overview

An investigation into why stock SSH sends many packets for a single keystroke, discovered while profiling a high-performance game running over SSH. The author compares traffic patterns, debugs a broken test harness, and identifies the behavior as a property of the SSH client rather than the game.

## Source excerpt

I made my next game twice as fast by forking go's crypto library