Because the plot files are essentially random data they are not really compressible. If you are looking to speed up transport on your internal network I would recommend looking at adopting 10 GB Ethernet. If you’re looking at transport over the Internet, sorry to say it’s never going to be great.
I tried compressing one once, it got bigger. FWIW, we have 1GB and 10GB internet speeds, so if you can get that it might work for you to someone who has similar, however 10GB ethernet looks like a go for local xfer. You might get 1000MB/s or so I read from tests.