Slow speeds up/dwn from virtual server


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Hello all, my first post on Neowin!

Sometime in the past month my virtual server has been serving slow speeds to a majority of places when I used to get 500KB/s + speeds down and 250KB/s speeds up regularly. My home network is Verizon Fios 15/5 and speedtest.net reports exactly those speeds at any test server I choose.

I've been going back and forth with my virtual server host (1and1) about my virtual server download and upload speeds. I've done a lot of testing to see if there is packet loss with WinMRT and also traceroutes from a couple locations.

1and1 has done testing and verified it's NOT their network causing the slow downs as their download tests have returned fast speeds. I've tested at about 8 locations to download this file (http://www.sentaxsolutions.com/download/dotnetfx4.zip) and 6 out of the 7 get speeds ranging from 10kb/s-50kb/s, only 1 out of the 7 gets 400kb/s+ download speeds and that is located in Chicago, 4 are from Los Angeles area and 2 from Denver area and one from Orlando area.

Is it possible to get some users here to download and report the speed it downloads, location they are at, and the internet provider and package they have?

What can I do about this? It's very frustrating. If I cannot find the cause of this, I may have to move to a different virtual server provider which takes a lot of configuration for my server because of the nature of it

All advice is greatly appreciated!

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I'm getting an speed of 313KB/s. Tested from server with 100Mbit connection in Maidenhead, England

How are they testing their network, if they are just testing the speed within their network then the test is pretty pointless

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Thanks for the reply, Sparky Marky. You're getting good speeds. Hoping some others will test and report. I can understand people are hesitant of downloading a file I've posted but I can assure you it's just a zip of the .Net 4 redist package.

Yes, I believe they are testing just speed in their network. Each reply seems to be to brush me off as I'm crazy or what not. I'm not sure how else to approach the network team to have them test other things, I know nothing of their network.

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Thanks everyone, I'm jealous of all of you. As I write this, my backup routine is running at 16KB/s upload... feel like dial-up days really.. all services up/dwn on this server are slow, including FTP, web server, a few proprietary services, etc.

Xendrome, where are you located?

Anyone on the West Coast USA try and post speed?

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