JTA1029 said:
A note on compression.
Let's say you've got 100 GB of data you need to upload.
If you compress the data you may only need to upload 50GB.
But that doesnt change the rate at which you can upload data. Just means you wouldn't have to spend as long uploading because there would be less data.
But your Mbps would be the same, whether it was compressed or not.
So compressing the data before uploading it off a remote server (or downloading from a remote server if prefer that perspective) doesnt address the issue of the data transfer rate being faster than the internet connection could have provided.
Hope that's clear. I can probably come up with a better analogy if needed.
And yes, I was also hearing months and months ago that the speed at which the files were exported far exceeded something an internet connection could do, and instead actually were pretty in line with what a USB 3.0 external drive would support.
Seth Rich.
I am a tech person so explain something to me and maybe I've just missed it in the story but I have not really dug for the info.
Yes what you say is true.... however as far as I know nobody has ever seen/had access to the server right? And they only have what was uploaded/copied or whatever. They have the data files yes (possibly uncompressed and unencrypted) but basically they have the files.
Nothing in the files gives any indication of transfer speed - thats not an artifact of a file. The file is generally unadulterated by a upload/copy right except maybe timestamp/etc.?
So even knowing the internet speed available does not give you any indication of transfer speed, not does the size of the file, nor the file itself.
The only thing that would tell you transfer speed is either the time they were connected and the size of the files or the actual log of the event which is not available. Correct????
Said another way - why does anyone think they know how long it took to upload it???? the speed is irrelevant (and unknown) without that or the logs.
Note - again if I missed something on the connection time, event log, etc. then correct me.