Summary:
2015 MacBook Pro 15 download speed: 76.2 MiB/s (megabytes per second)
2019 MacBook Pro 16 download speed: 48.4 MiB/s (megabytes per second)
Remote = remote server on gigabit ethernet
Create an test file locally (and then place on the remote server)
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1M count=5000
5000+0 records in
5000+0 records out
5242880000 bytes (5.2 GB, 4.9 GiB) copied, 1.62912 s, 3.2 GB/s
2015 MacBook Pro 15 - Same Wi-Fi Router (5GHZ/802.11ac)
username@macbook:~$ /usr/bin/time scp username@remote:bigfile .
bigfile 100% 5000MB 76.2MB/s 01:05
65.93 real 0.62 user 6.99 sys
2019 MacBook Pro 16" - Same Wi-Fi Router (5GHZ/802.11ac)
mbp16:~ username$ /usr/bin/time scp bigfile username@remote:
bigfile 100% 5000MB 48.4MB/s 01:43
103.34 real 28.96 user 10.08 sys
I also tested in boot camp on Windows 10 for the MacBook Pro 16" and it is slow there also, this isn't a deal breaker but was curious if others had seen it as well?
2015 MacBook Pro 15 download speed: 76.2 MiB/s (megabytes per second)
2019 MacBook Pro 16 download speed: 48.4 MiB/s (megabytes per second)
Remote = remote server on gigabit ethernet
Create an test file locally (and then place on the remote server)
$ dd if=/dev/zero of=bigfile bs=1M count=5000
5000+0 records in
5000+0 records out
5242880000 bytes (5.2 GB, 4.9 GiB) copied, 1.62912 s, 3.2 GB/s
2015 MacBook Pro 15 - Same Wi-Fi Router (5GHZ/802.11ac)
username@macbook:~$ /usr/bin/time scp username@remote:bigfile .
bigfile 100% 5000MB 76.2MB/s 01:05
65.93 real 0.62 user 6.99 sys
2019 MacBook Pro 16" - Same Wi-Fi Router (5GHZ/802.11ac)
mbp16:~ username$ /usr/bin/time scp bigfile username@remote:
bigfile 100% 5000MB 48.4MB/s 01:43
103.34 real 28.96 user 10.08 sys
I also tested in boot camp on Windows 10 for the MacBook Pro 16" and it is slow there also, this isn't a deal breaker but was curious if others had seen it as well?