He specified SMBv2 so I think you're on track with him being on a Win7 / 
WinSrv2008 box. 

There are a number of variables at play here though, one of which is who the 
provider's in-between the two locations are and the quality / number of peering 
points you'd have to cross. If the endpoints were already setup, I'd schedule a 
number of decently sized (big enough that it takes at least 5 - 10 minutes for 
scaling to do its thing) test transfers hourly or once every couple hours over 
the course of a week to get a baseline and understanding of how time of day 
traffic affects the transfer. If it's live traffic on the other hand, where a 
user is pulling up some massive file from the other office, you're likely 
better off looking into a WAN accelerator appliance.

- Matt

-----Original Message-----
From: Jared Mauch [mailto:ja...@puck.nether.net] 
Sent: Thursday, July 11, 2013 10:30 AM
To: Luan Nguyen
Cc: nanog@nanog.org
Subject: Re: File transfer speed between Hong Kong and Johannesburg, South 
Africa

Honestly, this depends on what OS you are using.  Anything prior to Win7 you 
are likely to suffer from the TCP stack.  Add in anything weird like ICMP 
filtering, load balancers or something else that eats the packets you are going 
to see varying results.

- Jared

On Jul 11, 2013, at 10:04 AM, Luan Nguyen <luan20...@gmail.com> 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?
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> -Luan


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