What is the best way for a prospective client to tell the speed and/or throughput capability of a host? Use a throughput utility of some kind? Do a traceroute and see what network they use?

I guess I am looking for hosts with speed and uptime as the highest priorities. So the best fiber network and datacenter is what I want, right? What's the best way to discover this about a host? Like whether or not they use InterNAP, NAC, etc...

Thanks ahead of time for any help,

Trip

traceroutes can be helpful to find out what kind of bandwidth it's probably running. Most hosts will give you a sample file to download to clock speeds and an IP to ping/traceroute.