Can someone test the download speed for me. Please also mention your location!

http://66.28.54.31/8mb.zip

Cogent =) Where is your server located?

Not my server.. Just thinking to get it. Want someone to test the speed for us before we order it.

I'm getting a stable download rate of 4.5kbps on my 56K which connects at 48.0kbps. And I'm from the UK, so it's a good rate for me.

120KB/sec from my RaQ at 4webspace.com

08:11:08 (120.96 KB/s) - `8mb.zip' saved [8326840/8326840]

Bit slow really. Bursted to around 200K/s.

This is from a server at nac.net.


Craig.

208.14 KB/s from our Cogent powered network in San Francisco. Acceptable speed.

Very slow..

I'm getting 90kb/s from my home connection - I can download though well above 650kb/s from a lot of servers during the day even...

250k/sec from my 10Mbit connect in the Netherlands

09:10:59 (106.48 KB/s) - `8mb.zip' saved [8326840/8326840]

From BurstNET server.

Originally posted by Gernot
208.14 KB/s from our Cogent powered network in San Francisco. Acceptable speed.

12 p15-0.core02.jfk02.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.14) 185.059 ms 200.407 ms 212.443 ms

11 p5-0.core01.tpa01.atlas.cogentco.com (66.28.4.58) 234.236 ms 131.079 ms 133.109 ms

Very High powered indeed.

This brings me to my question of what are people going to do when cogent goes belly up? I mean I see all these companies offering servers with huge amounts of bandwidth for $99. Cogent is overselling it's avalable bandwidth which degrades network performance. I can't compete with these cogent based providers because I won't go with a company that oversells bandwidth and has my customers boxes lagged. If you want a cheap server like that, more power to you; for me it's about network performance.

It was going way too slow so I just killed wget.

I wget'd from 1 box on our network and 3 off:

box on the network:
08:50:11 (58.30 KB/s) - `8mb.zip' saved [8326840/8326840]

friends box on uunet backbone:
08:55:17 (51.52 KB/s) - `8mb.zip' saved [8326840/8326840]

my box on savvis backbone:
10:56:12 (57.85 KB/s) - `8mb.zip.1' saved [8326840/8326840]

friends cogent box, wow we are at the same place :o)
09:58:01 (6.46 MB/s) - `8mb.zip' saved [8326840/8326840]

74 KB/s on a cable modem. Not bad. I can get speeds as high as 250KB/s.

-joe

190KB max, 100KB average...

on a college lan in ohio connected by dual t1 i belive...

I tested it using our Savvis OC3 Link can get 155Mbps Max.,

96.52 KB/s

very slow....

100 KB/s here (UUnet OC3)

> charlotte, nc
>> 768k SDSL
>> burst 161 KB/Sec
>>> average 58.6 KB/Sec

I dont know why, it seems to be a bit slow compare to my other cogent provier. The speed I get on the link I posted above is around 100k/sec from burst.net's server. But the speed I get from the other cogent provider is around 250k/sec.

Anyone know the reason?

is the eth0 at 100 mbps ? or 10 mbps ?

UUNet DSL Gainesville, FL:
Hops: Who knows, couldn't get past hop 9 which I think links UUNet to Cogent. Probably ~15-20 hops.
Peak - 116KB/s (I average 150KB/s from almost everywhere)
Average - 41.51KB/s
Low - 8.16KB/s
wget: 18:57:08 (41.51 KB/s)

UUNet DS3 Gainesville, FL:
Hops: 18
Peak - 165.56 KB/s
Average - 68.80KB/s
Low - 23.16 KB/s
wget: 18:44:34 (68.80 KB/s)

AT&T DS3 Jacksonville, FL:
Hops: Who knows, couldn't get past hop 14 which I think links AT&T to Cogent. Probably ~20-25 hops.
Peak - 196.85 KB/s (next closest was 167KB/s)
Average - 51.21KB/s
Low - 19.13 KB/s
wget: 19:00:34 (51.21 KB/s)

Bit overkill, eh? Maybe it'll be of some use to someone. :) Weak averages.

500Kbps Cable Modem in Toronto, Canada:

7.94 MB in 1 min 31 sec.
Average speed: 89.3 KB/Sec

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Shared Account at Tera-byte.com (Edmonton, Canada)

18:03:50 (104.66 KB/s) - `8mb.zip' saved [8326840/8326840]

Way too slow :(

20:04:35 (118.23 KB/s)

On Our DC in Florida

I get very jumpy speeds from other cogent locations. I averaged 100K/s from one server(11hops 39ms ping) and 120K/s from another server (8hops 26ms ping), 55K/s from my dsl.

Looks pretty bad if you ask me.

Dedicated T3 in the UK
got about 60k/s average started slowing toward the end though.

Bursted @ 5.34Kbps for 30 seconds steady at 3.56.Kbps on my 10MB Connection at work. :(

Originally posted by lostpacket
Bursted @ 5.34Kbps for 30 seconds steady at 3.56.Kbps on my 10MB Connection at work. :(

ouch...

Less than 1k per second steady.

Just to make sure it wasn't my connection I downloaded something from elsewhere halfway through and got 40k/s

Hope that helps....

30 KB/sec steady from a multiple-T1 connection. Then downloaded at 320 KB/sec from a different site to make sure it wasn't my network.