I'm curious as to what the speeds are for people downloading uumap.tar.Z from ftp.uu.net. It's a little over 8MB. Here are three of my tests, which don't show much of a pattern:

1. www.ValueTech.com
->my server on my network here. 3xDS1 to NuVox.
8520221 bytes received in 38.4 secs (2.2e+02 Kbytes/sec)

2. texas.valuetech.net
->At rackshack. Supposed 400+ Mbps aggregate bandwidth.
8520221 bytes received in 109 secs (76 Kbytes/sec)

3. hubcap.clemson.edu
->My university account @ Clemson. 45 Mbps to InfoAve.
8564667 bytes received in 17 seconds (499.69 Kbytes/s)

4. mercury.valuetech.net
->Co-lo'd in Columbus, OH on a DS-3 to UUNET.
8520221 bytes received in 27.2 secs (3.1e+02 Kbytes/sec)

Summary: My 3xDs1 is indeed slower (though plenty!) and twice that of Clemson, while the RS/UUNET direct connection are surprisingly laggard.

I hope someone found this interesting. :)

Drew Nichols

As I pointed out the last time this question came up, this is a poor benchmark. TCP performance scales inversely with round trip time until it reaches a significant fraction of the available bandwidth, and consequently a server which happens to be closer to that particular FTP site will demonstrate a much higher throughput.

A better benchmark would correct for this by comparing [measured bandwidth] / [round trip time], and an even better benchmark would compare TCP bandwidth to a variety of locations around the internet (weighted to match user demographics).

local: uumap.tar.Z remote: uumap.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for uumap.tar.Z (8520221 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
8520221 bytes received in 4.99 secs (1.7e+03 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>

Seems fast however check out the ping loss...

--- ftp.uu.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 80% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 13.509/13.602/13.696/0.149 ms
root@premiere [/tmp]# ping -c 10 ftp.uu.net
PING ftp.uu.net (192.48.96.9) from 64.156.3.40 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ftp.UU.NET (192.48.96.9): icmp_seq=0 ttl=240 time=14.101 msec

--- ftp.uu.net ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 80% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 13.548/13.824/14.101/0.300 ms
root@premiere [/tmp]# ping -c 10 ftp.download.com
PING ftp.download.com (64.124.236.115) from 64.156.3.40 : 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from ftp.download.com (64.124.236.115): icmp_seq=0 ttl=243 time=87.734 msec

--- ftp.download.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 2 packets received, 80% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 87.734/87.793/87.852/0.059 ms
root@premiere [/tmp]# ping -c 10 msn.com
PING msn.com (207.46.185.39) from 64.156.3.40 : 56(84) bytes of data.

--- msn.com ping statistics ---

Is the packet loss good or bad?

mine is at Equinix (Bought the server special from Pwebtech)..
pretty fast but ping lost is worrying me.

Packet Loss is always bad, hehe no question about it.

Heres what I get

--- ftp.uu.net ping statistics ---
12 packets transmitted, 12 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/mdev = 69.944/120.627/389.973/86.754 ms

:)

Is the packet loss good or bad? It's never a good thing :)

Here's the ftp output:

ftp> bin
200 Type set to I.
ftp> get uumap.tar.Z
local: uumap.tar.Z remote: uumap.tar.Z
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for uumap.tar.Z (8520221 bytes).
226 Transfer complete.
8520221 bytes received in 21 secs (4e+02 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>

Here's the latency that I get from one of my routers ( no packet loss ):

core-3.msp.origix.net#ping
Protocol [ip]:
Target IP address: ftp.uu.net
Repeat count [5]: 1000
Datagram size [100]:
Timeout in seconds [2]:
Extended commands [n]:
Sweep range of sizes [n]:
Type escape sequence to abort.
Sending 1000, 100-byte ICMP Echos to 192.48.96.9, timeout is 2 seconds:
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Success rate is 100 percent (1000/1000), round-trip min/avg/max = 36/40/264 ms
core-3.msp.origix.net#

people ... people ...

we have had a long list results on this! Please check here (http://webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=7681) to compare your results ... Anything under 1.5 MBps (12Mbps) does not impress me at all :)

cheers,
:beer: