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		hwatson on March 24, 2015 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Google Fiber Is Coming to Salt Lake City 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 [–]

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).

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