Is this fast for Paramiko?

[gohanzdad]

I have a script I'm using at work to pull firewall ACL's.  I'm using the Paramiko module, but I feel like it might be taking longer then it should.  I'm not sure though.  The largest ACL file I end up with after pulling the ACL's is 9.1MB and it takes around 12 minutes to complete the SSH session and write the output to a file.  Does anyone else feel like that could be faster?  Or does that sound like it's on par to everyone but me?