I'm still kind of toying around with my dedicated I won. So, I decided to the network speed test thing from UUNet. I logged on actually got it to work on the first time I tried (I suck at SSH stuff.. still learning).

Yeah, but here are the results.

Resolving ftp.uu.net... done.
Connecting to ftp.uu.net[192.48.96.9]:21... connected.

19:37:07 (12.37 KB/s) - `uumap.tar.Z.1' saved [8520221]

However when I do wget to my other site and download the speedtest file from there I get;

19:38:51 (58.72 KB/s) - `speedtest.zip' saved [2427488/2427488]

Would a configuration problem cause the downloads to be that much slower? Or would it actually be a network issue? Or is there something I'm totally missing?

It could be one or a combination of many issues here.

On the hardware end, it could be a faulty or misconfigured network card or port. It could be a configuration issue or it could simply be a slow network.

If you could, do a traceroute and a ping to the server and see if there is a latency issue involved. Location of the server to where you are can play a part too. Servers location in a separate continent from where you are located can be the reason why the server seems slow.

If it is possible, ask your web host to provide you with an available point where you could do a test download from. If it is speedy then it could be just isolated to your server. If it is as slow then it is the network.

I've found that ftp.uu.net sucks to do download tests. It amazes me how many people use it to test, though.

ftp://ftp.newaol.com/aol/setup32.exe is what I usually use.

Tracert to the server;

tracert 216.120.237.70

Tracing route to 216.120.237.70 over a maximum of 30 hops
10 39 ms 40 ms 40 ms sl-bb21-nyc-2-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.20.96]
11 41 ms 41 ms 42 ms sl-gw28-nyc-14-0.sprintlink.net [144.232.7.30]
12 44 ms 44 ms 44 ms sl-inetconn-9-0.sprintlink.net [144.223.25.10]
13 46 ms 45 ms 44 ms 66.192.240.41
14 45 ms 44 ms 44 ms 66.192.240.67
15 49 ms 49 ms 48 ms 66.192.240.22
16 51 ms 49 ms 50 ms hagg-01-ge-0-3-0-0.alby.twtelecom.net [66.192.2
0.178]
17 50 ms 49 ms 50 ms 66-126-65-30.gen.twtelecom.net [66.162.65.30]
18 53 ms 55 ms 52 ms nycp-sw-hr2948-1.hrnoc.net [216.120.224.30]
19 54 ms 52 ms 52 ms 216.120.237.70

Trace complete.

Tracert from the server to me;
traceroute to adsl-65-43-229-74.dsl.bcvloh.ameritech.net (65.43.229.74), 30 hops max, 38 byte packets
1 216.120.237.1 (216.120.237.1) 0.460 ms 7.172 ms 0.421 ms
2 nycp-rt-hr7200-1.hrnoc.net (216.120.224.1) 0.336 ms 0.363 ms 0.406 ms
3 66-126-65-29.gen.twtelecom.net (66.162.65.29) 1.039 ms 1.133 ms 1.191 ms
4 dist-01-ge-3-3-0-0.alby.twtelecom.net (66.192.240.177) 1.097 ms 1.281 ms 1.219 ms
5 core-02-so-2-1-0-0.nycl.twtelecom.net (66.192.240.14) 7.070 ms 7.202 ms 7.061 ms
6 66.192.240.46 (66.192.240.46) 7.089 ms 6.935 ms 7.079 ms
7 sl-gw28-nyc-0-2.sprintlink.net (144.223.25.9) 11.004 ms 10.555 ms 10.471 ms
8 sl-bb25-nyc-15-2.sprintlink.net (144.232.7.33) 10.964 ms 10.818 ms 10.801 ms
9 sl-bb26-nyc-10-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.13.190) 11.056 ms 10.829 ms 10.637 ms
10 sl-bb23-pen-12-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.20.95) 15.351 ms 13.900 ms 14.791 ms
11 sl-bb20-pen-14-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.16.25) 24.218 ms 72.564 ms 16.618 ms
12 sl-gw1-pen-9-0.sprintlink.net (144.232.5.2) 13.726 ms 14.244 ms 13.674 ms
13 sl-sbc-83-0-0.sprintlink.net (144.228.68.122) 29.799 ms 29.735 ms 29.375 ms
14 dist1-vlan40.bcvloh.ameritech.net (66.73.20.113) 29.606 ms 29.530 ms 29.507 ms
15 rback1-g1-0.bcvloh.ameritech.net (66.73.20.228) 30.317 ms 30.286 ms 30.350 ms
--> Times out after this because my firewall blocks pings.

I'll upload a file and then post it for you guys to try a speedtest on.

Originally posted by kerplunk
I've found that ftp.uu.net sucks to do download tests. It amazes me how many people use it to test, though.

ftp://ftp.newaol.com/aol/setup32.exe is what I usually use.


100%[====================================>] 13,230,456 23.60K/s ETA 00:00

20:06:22 (23.60 KB/s) - `setup32.exe' saved [13230456]

Not much different than the UUNet one.

Your ping and traceroute seems good. The slowest should not have happened since Hostrocket is supposed to be powered by OC-12 multi-homed pipes.

See if you could have them look into your server, something definitely is wrong.

Hi,

100%[============================================>] 13,230,456 464.96K/s ETA 00:00

01:18:08 (464.96 KB/s) - `setup32.exe' saved [13230456]

That's the result from one of our UK servers. Speak to your server provider, it could just be a dodgy network card or something. A traceroute from here to your server didn't show up anything strange either, so I'm guessing it is down to your server itself.

Thanks,
Alan.

I did the setup32.exe test to my server at Nocster.

100%[==========================================================================>] 13,230,456 3.27M/s ETA 00:00

19:22:35 (3.27 MB/s) - `setup32.exe' saved [13230456]

23.60k from a server is suspiciously slow. Check with your web host.

ftp> get setup32.exe
local: setup32.exe remote: setup32.exe
227 Entering Passive Mode
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for setup32.exe (13230456 bytes).
226 BINARY Transfer complete.
13230456 bytes received in 1.43 secs (9e+03 Kbytes/sec)


Defender Hosting

12.37 KB/s is just under 107 kbps. Slower than ISDN. Slower than my cable modem's upload. Just a tiny more than twice as fast as a 56K dialup. Not quite what I'd expect from a dedicated server!

The comment about you winning the server confuses me, though. Was it a figure of speech, or did you win some sort of contest? In the latter case, is it possible that they're capping it at some insanely low speed since they're not making money from a 'free' server?

Actually, when I usually grab uumap.tar.Z from UUnet I average 1-10 mb/s ... not slow IMO.

Thats definitely a faulty NIC card I would say.

Had the same thing happen to me before and those are very familiar results.

Hope you get it fixed though. :)

Originally posted by fog
12.37 KB/s is just under 107 kbps. Slower than ISDN. Slower than my cable modem's upload. Just a tiny more than twice as fast as a 56K dialup. Not quite what I'd expect from a dedicated server!

The comment about you winning the server confuses me, though. Was it a figure of speech, or did you win some sort of contest? In the latter case, is it possible that they're capping it at some insanely low speed since they're not making money from a 'free' server?
I agree. They could be capping the bandwidth so you can't smoke 'em on the free deal.

I didn't think of that, DangerMouse. Had a similar problem in the past and it was a faulty NIC too.

Also, it could be operating in... geesh whats the word... not duplex mode? Ive seen poor performance with cards that arent set to duplex.

I would suspect it is a faulty NIC though. Type ifconfig eth0, check the dropped packets.

I had the exact problem on two different servers - faulty NIC cards.

- Matt

22:51:27 (1.57 MB/s) - `setup32.exe' saved [13230456]

Rackshack.

Any update inogenius?

Originally posted by alapo
Any update inogenius?

Ah, sorry was away on vacation. Everything looks to be all good now.

wget ftp://ftp.uu.net/uumap.tar.Z
--03:14:05-- ftp://ftp.uu.net/uumap.tar.Z
=> `uumap.tar.Z'
Resolving ftp.uu.net... done.
Connecting to ftp.uu.net[192.48.96.9]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD not needed.
==> PORT ... done. ==> RETR uumap.tar.Z ... done.
Length: 8,520,221 (unauthoritative)

100%[====================================>] 8,520,221 1012.23K/s ETA 00:00

03:14:16 (1012.23 KB/s) - `uumap.tar.Z' saved [8520221]

% fetch ftp://ftp.newaol.com/aol/setup32.exe
Receiving setup32.exe (13230456 bytes): 100%
13230456 bytes transferred in 3.1 seconds (4.13 MBps)
%

heh. i win.

If you have any more problems let me know. I ran a test off of one of my boxes and had no probs either as of this point.

12:15:16 (3.47 MB/s) - `uumap.tar.Z' saved [8520221]

-Brendan

ahem,

you cant really compare speeds if you are downloading a different file from a different place. with that said:

-bash-2.05b$ wget ftp://ftp.uu.net/uumap.tar.Z
--01:50:35-- ftp://ftp.uu.net/uumap.tar.Z
=> `uumap.tar.Z'
Resolving ftp.uu.net... done.
Connecting to ftp.uu.net[192.48.96.9]:21... connected.
Logging in as anonymous ... Logged in!
==> SYST ... done. ==> PWD ... done.
==> TYPE I ... done. ==> CWD not needed.
==> PASV ... done. ==> RETR uumap.tar.Z ... done.
Length: 8,520,221 (unauthoritative)

100%[==================================================================================================>] 8,520,221 6.02M/s ETA 00:00

01:50:54 (6.02 MB/s) - `uumap.tar.Z' saved [8520221]

enough said =]

paul