ouch... arcfour gave ~150mb/s on a scp, so that didnt work well.
The cpu is a Xeon e5-2620 v3 (6core/2.4-3.2ghz), I know its low end, but appears to support most major features, was spec'd because VM workload did not require much, its only 1 small centos, a 2k8, and an xp, but I need fast sync...