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To be fair I shouldn't have to. But yes, you're right I probably should, if only to get an idea from other users what their percentage of potential bandwidth each way is.

I'll leave it for now and post tomorrow evening when back from work, as at their current rate it'll take two or three days for them to respond to the update on the ticket.
 
Do people find that certain IPs, or blocks of IPs, are traffic-shaped to hell?

I have a server in Amsterdam that I download from via FTPS or SFTP. Between about 19h00 and 00h00 I can't get more than 500KB/sec from it. At any other time, I get my full 80mbit.

If I route the traffic through a proxy on a UK server I have access to, I get the full speed I should in the evenings. I've tried downloading from my server via HTTP and HTTPS but it made no difference. I downloaded a linux .iso (seriously) from a mirror in Amsterdam via HTTP and got the full 80mbit.

Is this what I have to look forward to for the next 16 months of my contract?
 
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thewanted said:
I have a server in Amsterdam that I download from via FTPS or SFTP. Between about 19h00 and 00h00 I can't get more than 500KB/sec from it. At any other time, I get my full 80mbit.

If I route the traffic through a proxy on a UK server I have access to, I get the full speed I should in the evenings. I've tried downloading from my server via HTTP and HTTPS but it made no difference. I downloaded a linux .iso (seriously) from a mirror in Amsterdam via HTTP and got the full 80mbit.
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It could be congestion on that particular route. Can you provide a speed test file for other PN users?
 
KIA said:
It could be congestion on that particular route. Can you provide a speed test file for other PN users?
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I'll have to do one tomorrow because I'm on my phone now. I'm not sure I can though since the site requires authentication and I don't know if I can change it.

When I've done speedtests in the past on speedtest.net and the BT Wholesale speedtest, I've NEVER received a good result, but subsequent uploads and downloads via FTP or HTTP have been fine.

I've got two other servers with different providers (both in Amsterdam but one is hosted in a different DC), and the speeds from them are also rubbish between 19h00 and 00h00. It's either congestion between the UK and AMS, or deliberate traffic shaping for those providers.
 
I'm currently getting 450KB/sec from my seedhost.eu server via FTPS, and 7MB+/sec from the Leaseweb speedtest site (HTTP).

Would someone mind downloading this test file (on their PlusNet fibre connection, of course) and see what kind of speed you get? I get about 10mbit/sec, and my line syncs at 80mbit.

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Yep, I got an initial burst of about 1.1MB but then it settles to 400-500K, ended up cancelling it.

My speedtest.net results are a tad slower tonight but the few I've just ran where all still 70Mb+.

tracert puts me at 9 hops to that host, none over 16ms.
 
chaosophy said:
Yep, I got an initial burst of about 1.1MB but then it settles to 400-500K, ended up cancelling it.

My speedtest.net results are a tad slower tonight but the few I've just ran where all still 70Mb+.

tracert puts me at 9 hops to that host, none over 16ms.
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Thanks mate. I'm betting my left nut that it's deliberate traffic-shaping and not a congested route.
 
thewanted said:
I'm currently getting 450KB/sec from my seedhost.eu server via FTPS, and 7MB+/sec from the Leaseweb speedtest site (HTTP).

Would someone mind downloading this test file (on their PlusNet fibre connection, of course) and see what kind of speed you get? I get about 10mbit/sec, and my line syncs at 80mbit.
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Started off at 500-600KB/sec and dropped to 400-440KB/sec
 
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KIA said:
They use traffic prioritisation. If the FTP traffic is the only traffic on the line, it should run at line speed.
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I'm not doing anything online at the moment, and my download is running at 23KB/sec. When I route the same traffic through my UK proxy, I get nearly 80mbit/sec.

I've just downloaded this file from Leaseweb at over 7MB/sec via HTTP which is the same data centre where my seedhost.eu server is located.
 
My 80mbit/sec download via my UK proxy was short-lived. It dropped to about 22mbit/sec and stayed there.

A friend of mine just downloaded a file from my seedhost.eu server via HTTP on his BT Infinity 2 connection and only got 900KB/sec. My server unfortunately doesn't have ifstat installed so I can't see how much traffic it's currently pushing. It's on a 10GbE connection though, so it should be a lot better than this.
 
Trust me a link to a speed test file hosted on your seedbox and I'll see what sort of speed my buddies residential 100Mb NL connection is capable of during peak time.
 
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