> The data set was so large it took up 27 DVDs and took a couple of weeks to upload.

27 * 8 GiB (DVD-9) / 2 weeks = ~1.5 Mbps. Yep, that's British broadband bought from the lowest bidder.

I think it's tough to say. There's considerable overhead to packeted traffic. Also it sounds like they had a simple setup so there would be a delay in exchanging the DVDs after each one finishes. Uploads probably finished over the weekend with nobody there to start the next one too.

That's nearly 4.5TB if it was gzipped plain-text.

Sooo... not a lot of data. That's kabdib's point.

This isn't the 90s or something, a couple of terabytes is no longer "big data".

Sneakernet would have been faster...

They're probably not allowed to take the data out of the building for security purposes ...