[CentOS] How to measure file transfer speed?

transfer a file, time it, divide file size in megabytes / seconds to get
> MB/sec speeds.  multiply by 8 or 10 to get approximate backbone speed in
> megabit/sec. (10 approximates protocol overhead)
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Thank you very much. I got the point.
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