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higherpurpose
on March 24, 2015
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I usually get 8-9 MB/s file downloads with a 100Mbps connection. I think the speed is actually limited by the laptop's slow HDD.
hwatson
on March 24, 2015
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Considering that 100Mbit/s is 12.5MByte/s, the speeds you're seeing aren't horribly distant from your "up to" speed.
[For reference's sake, 8MByte/s is 64Mbit/s and 9MByte/s is 72Mbit/s
JoshTriplett
on March 24, 2015
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The usual rule of thumb I've seen for incorporating protocol overhead is to divide by 10 instead of 8: a 100Mbps connection can usually download about 10MB/s in practice (over http, scp, rsync, etc).
witty_username
on March 25, 2015
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8-9 MB/s write speed for a HDD is horribly slow.
0xFFC
on March 24, 2015
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SSD's are not too expensive these days.
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