the 87sec came from the time stamps on the files transferred from beginning to end of transferNot even close. The allegation is 87 seconds for less than 2GB: https://consortiumnews.com/2017/07/24/intel-vets-challenge-russia-hack-evidence/ In that article they say:
The Key Event
July 5, 2016: In the early evening, Eastern Daylight Time, someone working in the EDT time zone with a computer directly connected to the DNC server or DNC Local Area Network, copied 1,976 MegaBytes of data in 87 seconds onto an external storage device. That speed is much faster than what is physically possible with a hack.
No idea where they got their 87 seconds number. That's slower than a typical internet transfer, server to server, which I tested yesterday and got 70 MB/sec The whole article and organization reads like disinformation. It is certainly possible and more likely than not that the DNC email leak was by insider(s). But the 87 second claim does not prove anything. It shows complete lack of understanding of internet transfer speeds
Speaking of which, pizzagate also looks like a giant disinformation campaign designed, successfully, to paint people as unhinged. It worked perfectly when some idiot went looking for the basement in a building with no basement. Jerks like Podesta are probably bringing up pizzagate again to deflect from the fact that they were let off the hook for FARA violations and tax evasion (especially Podesta's brother) that are being used against Trump allies.
Internet speeds are expressed in MegaBITS per second. There are 8 bits to a byte.
To capture 1,976 bYtes in 87 seconds, the download speed would have to be nearly 200 megaBITS per second.
the 87sec came from the time stamps on the files transferred from beginning to end of transferBingo!
Your last paragraph says it ALL.
From what I have read, they got it off the bundle of files. When they are created, the files have time date stamps on them, and they simply looked at the creation time of the first and last files to get that number.
Then they compare it to the size of the file bundle.
The article I read said that they actually tested the transfer speed from the DNC to elsewhere in Washington, and it couldn't come close to the speed the files show to have been transferred at. I think the point was to show it could not have been done by "Russians" because it was impossible to get an international internet connection to transfer any faster than the local one they tested.
The article I read said the speed was very consistent with the transfer time to a local media thumb drive.