[164444] in North American Network Operators' Group
Re: File transfer speed between Hong Kong and Johannesburg, South
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Larry Sheldon)
Thu Jul 11 21:47:43 2013
Date: Thu, 11 Jul 2013 20:47:06 -0500
From: Larry Sheldon <LarrySheldon@cox.net>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <z3aP1l0151Una3W013aQ7L>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org
On 7/11/2013 10:32 AM, Clayton Zekelman wrote:
>
> It all depends on the air speed velocity of an unladen swallow, and
> varies if it is African or Eurpoean.
>
> In all seriousness, you need to know the speed and latency of the link
> before that question can be answered.
>
> At 10:04 AM 11/07/2013, Luan Nguyen wrote:
>> Hello folks,
>>
>> Does anyone know what's the average speed for windows file transferring
>> (SMB2) between Hong Kong and Johannesburg?
>> Any guide on how to calculate/estimate this?
An old-timers-uncalibrated-guess" If you are going to do large
transfers using a protocol designed (for want of a term) for local area
networks with near-fault free performance over a long multihop network,
you are not going to like it.
What criteria drive the selection of such an unlikely protocol?
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