Guinea pigs required...

smids · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:04

(This is more a connectivity test, but might be right for the HTML forum also - Dons move as required).

Could I get some quick help on my hosting server please? I found what seems to be a decent host in the US (required for needs) so I'm just checking out its connection to the UK - speeds in the US are great and have been tested. I have done some tests myself, but my line isn't really that great (4Mbps tops) so I just wanted a good test of speeds). I tracert to it in 7 hops which is great and ping is about 110ms. I downloaded last night at 350KB/s which was great (and probably my connection held me back) so if anyone could please help me out, this would be great.

First note: Entanet and NTL/Telewest 10MB (or any other fast connection) subscribers might be best for this (hoping to switch to an Enta reseller soonish and NTL'ers have good speeds for download test).

Right, first up, could I have some pings and traceroutes on the following domain (just as a quick test on my hosting server here).

TEST FILE REMOVED TO CONSERVE BANDWIDTH - MANY THANKS FOR THOSE WHO PARTICIPATED.

If you could, can you post results in this format:

ISP:
Download speed:

Code:

Tracert and ping results

This would be GREATLY appreciated - and I know you guys are always wanting to test out your connections, so hit me!

.

Thanks again,

Smids.

Phil99 · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:09

JANET in halls of residence (so the bandwidth is capped/shaped a bit)

Code:

  1    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  2    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx
  3     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  bound-from-ueahatop.uea.ac.uk [193.62.92.71]
  4     1 ms    <1 ms     1 ms  norwich-bar2.ja.net [193.60.0.161]
  5     4 ms     4 ms     5 ms  po14-3.cambridge-bar.ja.net [193.63.107.97]
  6     9 ms     8 ms     8 ms  po11-0.lond-scr.ja.net [146.97.35.9]
  7     8 ms     8 ms     8 ms  po0-0.lond-scr4.ja.net [146.97.33.34]
  8     8 ms     7 ms     8 ms  po1-0.lond-gw-ixp1.ja.net [146.97.35.130]
  9    83 ms    84 ms    83 ms  linx.peer.nac.net [195.66.224.94]
 10    86 ms    86 ms    88 ms  0.so-5-0-0.gbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.11.53]
 11    86 ms    86 ms    86 ms  70.47.104.6

Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=87ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=88ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=54
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=86ms TTL=54

I only got 60KB/s on the file test though :confused:

Vai · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:10

ISP: Nildram
Downloading that file at 240-300kb/s on a 7MB connection, but that is most likely just Nildram being rubbish as normal.

C:\Users\Paul>ping www.cdsjsmith.com

Pinging cdsjsmith.com [70.47.104.6] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=58
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=102ms TTL=58
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=103ms TTL=58
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=104ms TTL=58

Ping statistics for 70.47.104.6:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 102ms, Maximum = 104ms, Average = 103ms

C:\Users\Paul>tracert www.cdsjsmith.com

Tracing route to cdsjsmith.com [70.47.104.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 1 ms 1 ms 192.168.0.1
2 27 ms 25 ms 26 ms l1.ar21.gs1.dsl.pipex.net [195.112.5.30]
3 25 ms 25 ms 24 ms ge-1-1-1-0.cr02.gs1.dsl.pipex.net [84.12.224.33]

4 25 ms 26 ms 25 ms pc9.cr05.tn5.bb.pipex.net [62.72.137.13]
5 104 ms 101 ms 101 ms linx.peer.nac.net [195.66.224.94]
6 105 ms 104 ms 145 ms 0.so-5-0-0.gbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.11.53]
7 1562 ms 104 ms 104 ms 70.47.104.6

Trace complete.

beh · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:17

ISP: janet (from lancs)
Can't ping or tracert from my connection but averaged about 300k/s for the 100mb file, ranging from 270-310.

smids · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:21

Good - sounds perfect then - don't need any more speed that that over here and pings seem fine. Thanks guys

. I'm actually getting better speeds than you - currently 380KB/s (nildram on a recently increased VP exchange).

#Chri5# · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:27

It seems quite happy sustaining 750KB/sec on the D/L.

hybrid · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:28

Code:

Tracing route to cdsjsmith.com [70.47.104.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  172.16.0.22
  2    <1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  172.16.0.254
  3     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.35.10.1
  4     3 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.10.0.1
  5     1 ms     1 ms     1 ms  10.64.0.1
  6     2 ms     1 ms     1 ms  atmedge-cst-rs1.##########
  7     3 ms     2 ms     2 ms  border-tw155.#########
  8     3 ms     3 ms     2 ms  host-80-195-40-17.static.telewest.net [80.195.40
.17]
  9    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  62-31-144-40.cable.ubr04.hawk.blueyonder.co.uk [
62.31.144.40]
 10    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  pc-62-30-245-2-do.blueyonder.co.uk [62.30.245.2]

 11    19 ms    18 ms    18 ms  edi-gat-pos.telewest.net [194.117.136.9]
 12    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  194.117.136.209
 13    51 ms    18 ms    18 ms  194.117.136.178
 14    18 ms    18 ms    18 ms  tele1-know-rab.telewest.net [194.117.136.158]
 15    18 ms    17 ms    17 ms  194.117.136.146
 16    94 ms   201 ms   180 ms  linx.peer.nac.net [195.66.224.94]
 17    97 ms    96 ms    96 ms  0.so-5-0-0.gbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.11.53]
 18    97 ms    96 ms    96 ms  70.47.104.6

Trace complete.

smids · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:31

#Chri5# said:
It seems quite happy sustaining 750KB/sec on the D/L.

Nice - seeing as this is peak time in the US (east coast), those speeds are great.

hybrid · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:31

804KB/sec when downloading that file btw.

smids · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:35

hybrid said:
804KB/sec when downloading that file btw.

Even better

I'm liking this - most other hosts which I tested over there could only really hit 200KB/s and were pinging about 180ms over like 18 hops. Seems to be pretty good

.

bigredshark · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:38

IPs blanked as this was from a core server.

bash-2.05$ traceroute cdsjsmith.com
traceroute: Warning: Multiple interfaces found; using xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx @ dmfe0
traceroute to cdsjsmith.com (70.47.104.6), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx (xxx.xxx.xxx.xxx) 1.019 ms 0.460 ms 0.349 ms
2 gi-3-2.par3.ixe1.hso.uk.com (10.0.6.77) 0.845 ms 0.495 ms 0.407 ms
3 fe-0-0-0.pgr1.ixe1.hso.uk.com (10.0.10.245) 1.126 ms 0.523 ms 0.492 ms
4 f0-0-1.pgr1.the1.highspeedoffice.net (10.0.0.2) 1.545 ms 0.830 ms 0.679 ms
5 linx.peer.nac.net (195.66.224.94) 79.031 ms 164.906 ms 88.352 ms
6 0.so-5-0-0.gbr1.mmu.nac.net (209.123.11.53) 80.727 ms 80.144 ms 80.412 ms
7 70.47.104.6 (70.47.104.6) 80.430 ms 79.272 ms 79.525 ms

not bad for the US, they appear to have a linx peering connection and very few hops on their side.

ping

----cdsjsmith.com PING Statistics----
25 packets transmitted, 25 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip (ms) min/avg/max = 80/81/110
[root@dns3 /]#

IPs blanked as this was from a core server.

Download completed at 653kb/s...not bad for a US host at all really...

tolien · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:39

Hosting box with Gradwell:

Code:

HOST                                    LOSS  RCVD SENT    BEST     AVG   WORST
ge0-1-0.bdr1.thdo.gradwell.net            0%    20   20    0.12    0.23    0.30
gi0-0-71-gradwell.bdr-rt2.thdo.ncuk.net    0%    20   20    0.42    2.37   28.47
ge1-3-0-10.lon1.as8553.net                0%    20   20    0.83    3.20   31.11
linx.peer.nac.net                         0%    20   20   76.59   79.35  112.35
0.so-5-0-0.gbr1.mmu.nac.net               0%    20   20   79.46   84.25  123.27
70.47.104.6                               0%    20   20   79.38   79.92   80.59

23:38:42 (537.93 KB/s) - `100MB-TEST%20FILE.bin' saved [104857600/104857600]

Tom|Nbk · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:40

ISP: NTL 10MB
Speed whilst downloading file: average 600-700kb

C:\Documents and Settings\Tom Day>ping www.cdsjsmith.com

Pinging cdsjsmith.com [70.47.104.6] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=95ms TTL=55
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=55
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=94ms TTL=55
Reply from 70.47.104.6: bytes=32 time=93ms TTL=55

Ping statistics for 70.47.104.6:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 93ms, Maximum = 95ms, Average = 93ms

C:\Documents and Settings\Tom>tracert www.cdsjsmith.com

Tracing route to cdsjsmith.com [70.47.104.6]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 3 ms 1 ms 1 ms WGT634U [192.168.1.1]
2 9 ms 7 ms 7 ms 10.133.196.1
3 8 ms 8 ms 9 ms midd-t2cam1-b-ge96.inet.ntl.com [213.106.238.177
]
4 20 ms 7 ms 8 ms midd-t2core-b-ge-wan61.inet.ntl.com [195.182.176
.113]
5 25 ms 14 ms 15 ms midd-t2core-a-ge-wan91.inet.ntl.com [213.106.237
.1]
6 10 ms 9 ms 10 ms lee-bb-a-so-700-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.187.89]
7 15 ms 31 ms 15 ms pop-bb-b-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.185.238]

8 15 ms 15 ms 15 ms tele-ic-2-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.184.6]
9 90 ms 91 ms 91 ms linx.peer.nac.net [195.66.224.94]
10 95 ms 114 ms 94 ms 0.so-5-0-0.gbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.11.53]
11 98 ms 97 ms 92 ms 70.47.104.6

Trace complete.

smids · 20 Oct 2006 at 23:42

Very nice results I'm seeing - I think I found the right package for me.

I'll keep this running for the night maybe - after that I'll probably pull the test file down - don't want to eat out too much on a simple test (not that I need the rest anyway, but as with all hosts, they don't like you eating too much, even within the quota unless you lease...)

smids · 21 Oct 2006 at 02:07

OK people - thanks for doing the downloads for me. To conserve bandwidth, I've pulled the test file. 101 views = potential 10GB bandwidth used which is a hefty chunk on a simple test.

My extreme gratitude goes out to those who took the time to test for me, it has been greatly appreciated.

Anyone who wishes to perform the traces and pings are still welcome.

Ricochet J · 21 Oct 2006 at 08:24

Code:

  1    31 ms    23 ms    23 ms  he-0-dsl.as9105.net [212.74.111.195]
  2    23 ms    23 ms    23 ms  ge5-5-34.he-lon0.as9105.net [212.74.106.138]
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4    26 ms    35 ms    35 ms  213.200.78.238
  5    33 ms    35 ms    23 ms  ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.249.188]
  6   100 ms   107 ms   107 ms  nyk-bb2-pos7-0-0.telia.net [213.248.65.210]
  7   114 ms   107 ms   107 ms  nyk-b3-link.telia.net [80.91.249.85]
  8   173 ms   203 ms   191 ms  nac-110814-nyk-b3.c.telia.net [213.248.82.94]
  9   148 ms   107 ms   107 ms  12.ae0.gbr1.tl9.nac.net [209.123.11.71]
 10   105 ms   107 ms   107 ms  0.so-5-0-0.gbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.11.53]
 11   109 ms   107 ms   107 ms  70.47.104.6

Trace complete.

Second hop failed

smids · 21 Oct 2006 at 12:51

eXSBass said:

Code:

  1    31 ms    23 ms    23 ms  he-0-dsl.as9105.net [212.74.111.195]
  2    23 ms    23 ms    23 ms  ge5-5-34.he-lon0.as9105.net [212.74.106.138]
  3     *        *        *     Request timed out.
  4    26 ms    35 ms    35 ms  213.200.78.238
  5    33 ms    35 ms    23 ms  ldn-bb2-link.telia.net [80.91.249.188]
  6   100 ms   107 ms   107 ms  nyk-bb2-pos7-0-0.telia.net [213.248.65.210]
  7   114 ms   107 ms   107 ms  nyk-b3-link.telia.net [80.91.249.85]
  8   173 ms   203 ms   191 ms  nac-110814-nyk-b3.c.telia.net [213.248.82.94]
  9   148 ms   107 ms   107 ms  12.ae0.gbr1.tl9.nac.net [209.123.11.71]
 10   105 ms   107 ms   107 ms  0.so-5-0-0.gbr1.mmu.nac.net [209.123.11.53]
 11   109 ms   107 ms   107 ms  70.47.104.6

Trace complete.

Second hop failed

No problem - probably some tiscali hop or something.