Also you probably shouldn't use scp. rsync and sftp have mostly the same semantics. rsync --bwlimit=2OOK bigfile.iso name@server.org:path/in/destination

Also you probably shouldn't use scp. rsync and sftp have mostly the same semantics. rsync --bwlimit=2OOK bigfile.iso name@server.org:path/in/destination sftp -l 200 bigfile.iso name@server.org:path/in/destination Although it seems that scp is becoming a wrapper around sftp these days: https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-9-what-you-need-know https://www.redhat.com/en/blog/openssh-scp-deprecation-rhel-... https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=25005567