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[miltongoh]

Hi,

As per topic, what is the best method to do to the hardware to improve bandwidth / uplink speed of server?

I have a production server that is used for regular file serving.

P4 3.0Ghz
4GB RAM
500GB + 160GB + 160GB hard disk
2Mbps Dedicated + 10Mbps shared.

However, the most I can pulled through the whole server is always between 1.5Mbps - 3Mbps, anyway to pull the speed up to around 10Mbps should there be availability of bandwidth for me to burst?

For any informations, the hard disk is SATA 2.

[tanfwc]

Your upstream might be congested. What's the highest load when your site is the busiest?

[miltongoh]

When I tested the load with my home internet of 3Mbps, the speed is around 350KB/s on my 3Mbps Singnet BB.

However, daily load of 10 - 30 users constantly download, the speeds drop down to pathetic of 30 - 50KB/s. Wonder how do I increase this speed.

[tanfwc]

This has nothing to do with hardware (unless you have failing disk which will affect network performance).

Request a MRTG from your upstream on your port as I strongly believe it is the upstream congestion.

[Xandrios]

You have a 2Mbit connection, and the rest up to 10Mbit is probably bandwidth not in use by other 2Mbit customers. In other words: Buy 10Mbit dedicated if you need more speed..

[miltongoh]

Originally Posted by tanfwc

This has nothing to do with hardware (unless you have failing disk which will affect network performance).

Request a MRTG from your upstream on your port as I strongly believe it is the upstream congestion.

Will request a copy and analyse it. Perhaps can post here to share with you guys!

[tanfwc]

Originally Posted by Xandrios

You have a 2Mbit connection, and the rest up to 10Mbit is probably bandwidth not in use by other 2Mbit customers. In other words: Buy 10Mbit dedicated if you need more speed..

Ya, that's what I suggested, congested network

[woods01]

we push 30/35mbps @ softlayer on similar hardware, it's not your hardware getting in the way

[Rageki-John]

Like others have said, your network might be congested and you should have your datacenter check on that. The most you could do is just upgrade to a shared 100mbit port so that you will be able to peak over 10mbit and sometimes burst to 100mbit during certain periods of time. I believe if you just upgrade the port speed not the bandwidth amount, it shouldn't be too expensive, especially if it's a shared port.

[pixeldawn]

Which DC is your server in ?

[miltongoh]

Originally Posted by pixeldawn

Which DC is your server in ?

For your information, my server is hosted in Equinix Singapore and using Starhub bandwidth.

[stussyking]

your server under colocation ?

what are the fees like ?
thx

[miltongoh]

Originally Posted by stussyking

your server under colocation ?

what are the fees like ?
thx

Yes, it is co-located @ Equinix Singapore.

[tanfwc]

I guess I know who is the provider already

Btw, you can talk to them ma.

[miltongoh]

Originally Posted by tanfwc

I guess I know who is the provider already

Btw, you can talk to them ma.

Yeah! Will request for the MRTG chart soon for this server.