God knows where this should be posted, but let's take a guess...

Hi,

would a few of you mind downloading this file:

http://www.digitalgrey.nl/RealOnePlayerGold.exe

Could you post your results as to what the download speed is like. I'd also appreciate a note of the time your downloaded it and from where. It is going at 30 kb/s and less for me and I need some other people to confirm this before FDCservers will look into the matter. Also posted this at freewebspace.net, fasted tested speed there up to now has been 80 kb/s, which is still way too slow.

I appreciate your help.

P.S. The file is about 9 megabytes and is the realplayer install file as downloaded from realmedia.com

Steady 14k sec for me.. ON cable

Holy !

I'm really starting to think now how slow dail up connections are. :rolleyes:

Transfer Rate: Average 4.4K/sec

Umm..... the download won't even start. I m using a university connection.


Ah there we go. I m getting 3.11 kB/s and dropping. Time: 8:48 pm est.

8:50 pm est. Now I am getting 15.6

I averaged 35.9 kB/sec from my cable modem here in Wisconsin. From another box at FDCservers (though on a different link) I averaged 277.2kB/sec, but it was fairly erratic -- 500kB/sec or so for a few seconds, then almost nothing for a few, then back up to 500kB/sec, etc.

It looks to me like FDCservers' main link (the one which passes through Datacenter.demarc.cogentco.com) is pretty heavily utilized, and their main router is dropping packets (I get ~10% packetloss to most any box behind that router). If this is the case there's not much that you can do to fix it, short of getting FDCservers to install some more capacity (and/or a beefier router, depending on which is at its maximum capacity).

6250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 71% @ 132.98 KB/s
6300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 71% @ 79.24 KB/s
6350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 72% @ 148.37 KB/s
6400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 72% @ 20.06 KB/s
6450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 73% @ 24.43 KB/s
6500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 73% @ 7.01 KB/s
6550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 74% @ 9.67 KB/s
6600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 75% @ 19.43 KB/s
6650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 75% @ 19.42 KB/s
6700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 76% @ 36.82 KB/s
6750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 76% @ 37.85 KB/s
6800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 77% @ 87.87 KB/s
6850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 77% @ 21.41 KB/s
6900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 78% @ 45.29 KB/s
6950K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 79% @ 9.35 KB/s
7000K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 79% @ 13.72 KB/s
7050K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 80% @ 19.28 KB/s
7100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 80% @ 19.08 KB/s
7150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 81% @ 42.05 KB/s
7200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 81% @ 45.66 KB/s
7250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 82% @ 56.95 KB/s
7300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 82% @ 90.25 KB/s
7350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 83% @ 166.11 KB/s
7400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 84% @ 24.56 KB/s
7450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 84% @ 62.66 KB/s
7500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 85% @ 134.77 KB/s
7550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 85% @ 177.30 KB/s
7600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 86% @ 20.49 KB/s
7650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 86% @ 9.86 KB/s
7700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 87% @ 54.64 KB/s
7750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 88% @ 35.41 KB/s
7800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 88% @ 65.79 KB/s
7850K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 89% @ 38.28 KB/s
7900K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 89% @ 69.83 KB/s
7950K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 90% @ 114.16 KB/s
8000K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 90% @ 8.07 KB/s
8050K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 91% @ 22.38 KB/s
8100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 92% @ 188.68 KB/s
8150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 92% @ 224.22 KB/s
8200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 93% @ 38.58 KB/s
8250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 93% @ 8.93 KB/s
8300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 94% @ 93.81 KB/s
8350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 94% @ 91.07 KB/s
8400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 95% @ 129.20 KB/s
8450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 95% @ 180.51 KB/s
8500K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 96% @ 203.25 KB/s
8550K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 97% @ 312.50 KB/s
8600K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 97% @ 316.46 KB/s
8650K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 98% @ 342.47 KB/s
8700K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 98% @ 57.60 KB/s
8750K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% @ 46.08 KB/s
8800K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 99% @ 13.01 KB/s
8850K ....... 100% @ 54.74 KB/s

18:00:58 (31.36 KB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe' saved [9070080/9070080]

Maybe it's your server.

< MOVED TO TECH >

The speed is a bit unstable I started at 490kb/sec and dropped down to 68kb/sec and this was my average

23:42:09 (71.05 KB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe' saved [9070080/9070080]

Pretty slow...

00:14:19 (102.73 KB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe' saved [9070080/9070080]

From my own server at FDC:
5.95 MB/s
At home(RR Cable):
92.21 KB/s
From work(Clear T1):
46.97 KB/s

hmm your server is faster then mine atleast
I'm only able to get around 77KB/s from my
server on my home computer. I also get a
lot of packet loss when I ping the computer.

Also when too many people start downloading
from me the connection shuts down and I can't
even get a ping reply. I wonder if my problem
could be hardware related. *sigh*

Cesar

226kbps from my home cable. :) Not too bad. Connection took a bit of time though.

72.7 was my average at home and 184.8 was the average from our tucson, dc.

I got it at 136 KB/sec at home ... 204 KB/sec at work ...

from within FDC

0K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 0% @ 8.14 MB/s
50K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% @ 9.77 MB/s
100K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 1% @ 8.14 MB/s
150K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 2% @ 9.77 MB/s
200K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 2% @ 8.14 MB/s
250K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 3% @ 6.98 MB/s
300K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 3% @ 8.14 MB/s
350K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 4% @ 6.98 MB/s
400K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 5% @ 6.98 MB/s
450K .......... .......... .......... .......... .......... 5% @ 6.98 MB/s
etc

Through 512K DSL - ~ 270Kb/s

Hey could someone try downloading http://www.dodgyspace.com/RealOnePlayerGold.exe (may as well recycle the file) from both within FDC and outside FDC. I'm getting speeds from 3 - 17 KB/s through my DSL connection and the results for Tazzman suggests I can get better. Petr has been investigating but I want to comfirm to myself that it isn't the server settings,

thanks in advance

http://www.dodgyspace.com/RealOnePlayerGold.exe:

I get around 20kB/s from my cable at home and 60-90kB/s from my fdc server.

http://www.dodgyspace.com/RealOnePlayerGold.exe:

I at around 20kB/s from my cable at home and 60-90kB/s from my fdc server.

From my cable at home (which has a max download speed of 135 kb/s) it hovers round the 20 kb/s mark.

From my FDC box:

root@core [~]# wget http://www.dodgyspace.com/RealOnePlayerGold.exe
--13:53:12-- http://www.dodgyspace.com/RealOnePlayerGold.exe
=> `RealOnePlayerGold.exe.1'
Resolving www.dodgyspace.com... done.
Connecting to www.dodgyspace.com[66.250.73.156]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9,070,080 [application/octet-stream]

100%[===================================>] 9,070,080 6.18M/s ETA 00:00

13:53:13 (6.18 MB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe.1' saved [9070080/9070080]

And here's another wget from my own server:

root@core [~]# wget ftp://ftp.uu.net/uumap.tar.Z
--13:56:13-- 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%[===================================>] 8,520,221 654.59K/s ETA 00:00

13:56:33 (654.59 KB/s) - `uumap.tar.Z' saved [8520221]

Seems traffic going into my server is fast and has a stable speed, but traffic going out has a very unstable speed and is generally far too slow. This I suppose would only go to confirm the suspisions that have been posted here that their network has a bottleneck in it somewhere as internal speeds are very fast in both directions. Could it be that demarc router needs to be replaced by something a bit more powerfull maybe...

Just thinking out loud here...

Thanks Guys, confirms to me that the server is working o.k :) .

Petr has been trying to improve the speed on my box, so could I ask one or 2 of you to try downloading the file again to see if there is a difference? I'm still stuck between 20 - 30 kb/s from my cable connection at home, so I don't see an improvement.

32kBs

from my box with dncsi: (t1 to qwest & t1 to savvis)

17:15:16 (81.13 KB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe' saved [9070080/9070080]

www.dncsi.com

and from a box with racksource (100 mbit to cogent & 100mbit to yipes)


16:15:06 (512.18 KB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe' saved [9070080/9070080]

www.racksource.net

redapple# wget http://www.dodgyspace.com/RealOnePlayerGold.exe
--03:13:19-- http://www.dodgyspace.com/RealOnePlayerGold.exe
=> `RealOnePlayerGold.exe'
Resolving www.dodgyspace.com... done.
Connecting to www.dodgyspace.com[66.250.73.156]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 9,070,080 [application/octet-stream]

100%[========================================================================================>] 9,070,080 40.80K/s ETA 00:00

03:17:01 (40.80 KB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe' saved [9070080/9070080]

redapple# wget ftp://ftp.uu.net/uumap.tar.Z
--03:17:09-- 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%[========================================================================================>] 8,520,221 539.42K/s ETA 00:00

03:17:29 (539.42 KB/s) - `uumap.tar.Z' saved [8520221]

4-6 KB/sec on my end (DSL) @ 2pm, east coast

From verio on our dual gige's i'm pulling about 20K/s not very fast :(

Petr has acknoledged something is wrong and is running extensive test on my server at the moment. He has been very understanding about this matter and seems set on resolving it as soon as possible.

Horrible speeds from my cable connection, 10kb/sec lol :bawling:

123.76K/s from a server at NAC.

Servers downloading from me will usually see about 3MB/s

From our Atlanta Box :

[chris@ns ~]$ fetch http://www.dodgyspace.com/RealOnePlayerGold.exe
Receiving RealOnePlayerGold.exe (9070080 bytes): 100%
9070080 bytes transferred in 50.1 seconds (176.86 kBps)

Colorado Box :

02:22:26 (296.30 KB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe' saved [9070080/9070080]

Hope that helps you.;)

Thanks for the tests. There has been a great improvement in speeds over the last couple of days. Haven't notice any outages lately either. Things are definitely looking up.

06:46:00 (568.37 KB/s) - `RealOnePlayerGold.exe' saved [9070080/9070080]