How long does it take to transfer a GB of data on the IC?

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Forgive me if this has been answered elsewhere. Also, any charts/metrics from previous testing showing how and if the transfer speed varies depending on upload size 1KB → 4GB for each of these scenarios would be great.

Questions for the following 3 scenarios:

Note: when I say “client external to the IC”, I mean something like a browser running a frontend application, or an AWS lambda

  1. How long does it take to upload a GB of data from a client external to the IC to a canister on the IC?
  2. How long does it take to download a GB of data from a canister to a client external to the IC?
  3. How long does it take to transfer a GB of data between two canisters on the IC (inter-canister)?


Follow up question out of curiosity: For scenarios (1) and (3), is it be possible to increase the speed of the upload or inter-canister transferring of data using a fire-and-forget type of update?

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