[SATLUG] OT: for Roadrunner users...

[John Ziriax]

On Sun, 6 Feb 2005 22:26:51 -0600, Tom Weeks <tweeksjunk2 at theweeks.org> wrote:
> Never mind... I just found out that the "speed test" sites that I was using
> were not fast enough to accurately test my home speed.  I just pulled a 6MB
> file from my web server at Rackspace (non-throttled) and got 593.6 kB/s
> (!!!).
> 
> Now that's screaming'!
> 
> I know that this is going to peg my xcssa site bandwidth.. but as a public
> service, if some of you want to test your speed more accurately against
> eachother (and you're local to SA), then pull down this file from my web
> server FROM THE COMMAND LINE:
>         $ wget http://theweeks.org/tmp/FILES/six-point-4-MB-file.bin
> 
> FYI...  My results were:
> 
> Avg Down:               592.1 kB/s (~ 5.9 Mb/s)
> Avg Up:         44.5 kB/s (~0.445 Mb/s)
> 
> Man...  I would trade 1Mbps of downlink speed for 500 kbps more uplink speed!
> 
> I wonder if RR could be convinced to have a "geek account" that would allow
> the geek customer to trade their uplink and dwnlink speeds to optimize it for
> their needs.  Anyone heard of anything like this?
> 
> Tweeks
> 
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$ wget http://theweeks.org/tmp/FILES/six-point-4-MB-file.bin
--22:52:04--  http://theweeks.org/tmp/FILES/six-point-4-MB-file.bin
           => `six-point-4-MB-file.bin'
Resolving theweeks.org... 64.39.31.80
Connecting to theweeks.org[64.39.31.80]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6,691,856 [application/octet-stream]

100%[====================================>] 6,691,856    358.81K/s    ETA 00:00

22:52:23 (357.20 KB/s) - `six-point-4-MB-file.bin' saved [6691856/6691856]

$ rm six-point-4-MB-file.bin
$ wget http://theweeks.org/tmp/FILES/six-point-4-MB-file.bin
--22:57:33--  http://theweeks.org/tmp/FILES/six-point-4-MB-file.bin
           => `six-point-4-MB-file.bin'
Resolving theweeks.org... 64.39.31.80
Connecting to theweeks.org[64.39.31.80]:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 6,691,856 [application/octet-stream]

100%[====================================>] 6,691,856    598.19K/s    ETA 00:00

22:57:59 (592.59 KB/s) - `six-point-4-MB-file.bin' saved [6691856/6691856]

Here's my results before and after unplugging and disconnecting my
Toshiba modem for about a minute.  Wow!

Thanks for the info.

John

-- 
John