title: Estimating network I/O speed using scp
body: <p>I want to have a rough estimate of the network I/O speed between two linux servers. The problem is that I don't have sudo access to the servers. So I tried transferring a 1GB file between the two servers using scp. I suppose that with the encryption there will be some slowdown. How much slowdown should I be expecting? Also can the scp bandwidth usage be capped by the server admin? How do I know if it is capped?</p>