How fast is your server connection?

I was really shocked at mine....

[wingslevel]

So lately I have felt things were a little sluggish, so I tested my bandwidth using the speakeasy speedtest (i think this is generally a pretty well thought of test). I opened up a browser remotely on my server to run the tests.

here is what he got:

atlanta 0.3 down 1.3 up
chicago 0.6 down 1.0 up
NYC 1.1 down 2.3 up
San Fran 0.3 down 0.4 up

I tried the same tests from my desktop in the office (cable modem):

atlanta 7 down 4 up
chicago 12 down 5 up
NYC 16 down 4 up
San Fran 7 down 3 up

To summarize, my desktop is 4x faster on the upload side and about 20x faster on the download side. Considering our servers are colocated inside a datacenter with oc48 and oc12 lines coming in, this seems unreal. When I sent these to my programmer he half-jokingly asked if we were hosting on dial-up. Considering we are testing across a range of different networks (by using varying cities), and we did a successful tracert test last week – I am thinking that these poor performance numbers aren’t coming from outside the datacenter, but in it.

I am on a 10mbs port, but I am thinking that my datacenter has limited the bandwidth on that switch. He can do that, right?

What kind of numbers do the rest of you get?

Thanks for sharing....

[bwnbwn]

We had the same issue at our "former" hosting location. I feel your being limited to cut bandwidth.

My best advice is contact the company tell them your concerns and ask them why your server is being limited.

Have you been going over your assigned bandwidth? If that is the case they may put this in place.

[wingslevel]

thks - yep, those were my suspicions - i am supposed to have 10mbs....

i have already contacted the gm at the datacenter and he has acted surprised. so i just did all these tests and sent them to him.

i might be moving soon....