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[lebstar69]

I hear they are having problems with their bandwidth especially with new clients. Anyone here experiencing this with UBIQUITY?

Also anyone have some SPEEDTESTs from UBIQUITY's network?

[AndyJ]

one of my friend has their server, and the ips is belong to godaddy ..... . Does godaddy's ips belong to teamnet ? .I have not tested the speed yet

[Chrysalis]

they DO have real problems with outbound speeds at the moment but they have sent out a notice saying it will be fixed by end of weekend. Its not looking too great at the moment I have to say tho, we was seeing easy 10mbit outbound sustained speed then it suddenly plummeted.

Speedtest I could post but I want to wait first and give them a chance to fix.

[qwidjib0]

A miscommunication has lead us to discover on our own accord that we are currently at a lack of a decent traffic balancing solution.

Some users are still seeing some (extremely) nice speeds, while others are left out in the cold. Clients on the rack in question have seen a substantial bandwidth increase to their switch, far beyond what we'd normally need to allocate, however this alone won't be enough. We're currently working out a hardware solution to restore much more balanced traffic performance as quickly as we can.

[efarmer]

Originally posted by qwidjib0
A miscommunication has lead us to discover on our own accord that we are currently at a lack of a decent traffic balancing solution.

Some users are still seeing some (extremely) nice speeds, while others are left out in the cold. Clients on the rack in question have seen a substantial bandwidth increase to their switch, far beyond what we'd normally need to allocate, however this alone won't be enough. We're currently working out a hardware solution to restore much more balanced traffic performance as quickly as we can.

Admit problem, take action and works towards a better solution.

Nice, you are definitely in my supplier list.

[dkitchen]

At least you admit you've got problems, that's a good starting point. Being an unmetered host doesn't make it easy when people come to demanding lots of bandwidth.

[wheimeng]

I'm always skeptical to unmetered offers at low priced, I'll sit longer and observe

[eddy2099]

Same here. I am pretty skeptical too unmetered with premium multi-homed network and with 100mbps pipes for under $800 does seems awfully cheap.

[sirius]

Originally posted by UltraUnixNET
I'm always skeptical to unmetered offers at low priced, I'll sit longer and observe

Agreed. I can see how some of the "big providers" can accomplish this and remain profitable, but not sure how the smaller folks do it.

Sirius

[music]

Not a hard problem to solve, just need to add more bandwidth and everythis is fine....

[sirius]

Originally posted by music
Not a hard problem to solve, just need to add more bandwidth and everythis is fine....

I think the answer is a bit more complex than that.... if it were as simple as just adding bandwidth, everyone would be in the game.

Sirius

[eddy2099]

Very true. Well, more bandwidth means more cost and that means either less profits, no profits or huge losses. Bandwidth is not cheap no matter where you go and at the current prices, they would stand to lose.

[sirius]

Originally posted by eddy2099
Very true. Well, more bandwidth means more cost and that means either less profits, no profits or huge losses. Bandwidth is not cheap no matter where you go and at the current prices, they would stand to lose.

It's a never ending cycle, which is why I dont understand how these folks can survive.

Most of them are gambling on a host never using anywhere near the amount of bandwidth they are given... but when the cards are out on the table and you have a few high traffic sites, do you just keep paying for more bandwidth and watch that profit margin (if any) erode even further?

More Customer = More Bandwidth, More Hardware, More Tech... etc.... Not just bandwidth.

Sirius

[eddy2099]

That's very true. I understand big host doing it because they are basically using this as a loss leader as a promotional campaign because they have the money to loss. And what makes a better advertisement than an outrageous sale. They would inevitably control such sales to a said limit. But it would not be some ongoing thing.

Small hosts trying to bang on the low price may get lucky if their customers do not fully utilized what is promised but if a few does, it could break the company unless they make some drastic steps to the existing accounts which would upset people.

[qwidjib0]

I'm enjoyng this coversation . Just to reiterate . . . available bandwidth is not our current problem. We'll be back in full swing very soon with new routing equipment. Things should then return to operating as smoothly as they have for the last couple months. Thank you everyone for your interest.