Darryl Gregorash wrote:
Here is the same test on a Switch server in Geneva: http://cemp1.switch.ch/network/performance/web100/tcpbw100.html
Thanks Darryl - interesting. I ran a couple of tests, which just show how much it varies: running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 353.0kb/s running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 2.00Mb/s running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 470.0kb/s running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 2.83Mb/s I also did a download of a kernel from mirror.switch.org using wget : 21:01:48 (513.28 KB/s) - `linux-2.6.18.tar.gz' saved [52467340/52467340] That is about 4300kbit/sec pure payload. This was on a machine with a direct (non-NATed) connection. Doing the same download only minutes later, but on a NAT-ed box: 21:08:38 (332.24 KB/s) - `linux-2.6.18.tar.gz' saved [52467340/52467340] At first, I suspected my NAT-machine might be getting little tired - it's still running SUSE 7.x with a 2.4.27 kernel, but then I reran the download on the non-NATed box: 21:11:50 (370.77 KB/s) - `linux-2.6.18.tar.gz' save[52467340/52467340] Then I reran the NDT test: running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 60.0kb/s running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 2.32Mb/s Per Jessen, Zurich -- http://www.spamchek.com/ - managed email security. Starting at SFr5/month/user.