Re: File transfer speed between Hong Kong and Johannesburg, South Africa

11 Jul 2013

      The maximum you can expect is:

Rate < (MSS/RTT)*(1 / sqrt(p)) where p is the probability of packet loss.

Credit: Mathis, Semke, Mahdavi & Ott in Computer Communication Review, 27
(3), July 1997, titled The macroscopic behavior of the TCP congestion
avoidance algorithm.
( http://www.infoblox.com/community/blog/tcp-performance-and-mathis-equation )

Joe

From:	Luan Nguyen <luan20176@gmail.com>
To:	nanog@nanog.org
Date:	07/11/2013 10:06 AM
Subject:	File transfer speed between Hong Kong and Johannesburg, South
            Africa

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?

Thanks.

Regards,

-Luan

Re: File transfer speed between Hong Kong and Johannesburg, South Africa

Joe Loiacono