how fast does this download for you?

[hsncool]

hi all.

i have webhosting with hostgator, but forsome reason, when i download off my servers, i get a speed that constantly fluxuates between 70-110KBps, and its never stable OR fast!

at first i thort it was because hostgator were cheap, lol, but i found that its quicker through proxies / different locations in the UK...(???)

hostgator blamed my ISP and told me to ask them to check it out....my ISP havnt got back to me yet.

i was wondering if you guys could see what speeds you were getting for a simple file download.

i live in derby, and im on Demon, and get these rubbish speeds. a friend on NTL/Virgin also in derby gets similar speeds. yet i believe my sister (in coventry) can get good speed.

sooo, try it out, click HERE, and post back with your speed and location. (you dont have to download the whole file)

if you do get slowspeeds, check the speed you get through a free proxy with this link.

thanx guys, u'll be helping me alot!

[Funkstar]

95 - 100KB direct on NTL cable (started at 120KB)

114 - 118KB via proxy (Started at 180KB)

[MadduckUK]

810KB and was still rising, the file wasnt big enough for the speed to level out, make one 10x the size. thats with Be btw

[BUFF]

NTL (4Mb service) 125k over whole file - started higher.

[Steve B]

NTL 105K over whole file

[Lourdes]

1-1.3MBp/s, Be in London.

Hostgator are good, any problems are nothing to do with them.

[hsncool]

can people post their locations aswell please. their profiles alone might not be too accurate. thanx

so, so far, either scotland and derby are slow.
or NTL and demon are slow
or a mixture of the two.

HEREs a 85MB ish file if the other one was too small

thanx

[hsncool]

an update.

demon basically said its not their problem! (how helpful)

im no longer doubting hostgator, just demon or derby!.

i did a traceroute and got these results.....

Tracing route to harmeetnannua.com [74.52.105.194]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

  1     1 ms    <1 ms    <1 ms  192.168.2.1
  2    38 ms    37 ms    37 ms  anchor-hg-3-l100.router.demon.net [ 194.159.161.34]
  3    39 ms    38 ms    37 ms  anchor-access-4-v155.router.demon.net [194.159.161.161]
  4    37 ms    37 ms    37 ms  anchor-inside-3-g5-0-2.router.demon.net [194.159.161.90]
  5    37 ms    38 ms    37 ms  anchor-border-2-g1-0-0.router.demon.net [194.70.98.14]
  6    38 ms     *       39 ms  finch-service-3c3-13a.bridge.demon.net [193.195.0.158]
  7    40 ms    39 ms    41 ms  vlan900.G0-2-0.rtr5.thn.lon.as5587.net [ 213.253.141.10]
  8    39 ms     *       39 ms  ge3-0.pr1.lhr1.uk.above.net [195.66.224.76]
  9   111 ms   135 ms   111 ms  so-1-1-0.mpr1.dca2.us.above.net [64.125.31.186]

 10     *        *        *     Request timed out.
 11   140 ms   139 ms   141 ms  so-3-0-0.cr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.29.169 ]
 12   138 ms   141 ms   140 ms  so-1-0-0.mpr2.dfw2.us.above.net [64.125.29.206]

 13   139 ms   139 ms   139 ms  216.200.6.237.theplanet.com [216.200.6.237]
 14   140 ms   141 ms   138 ms  te9-1.dsr01.dllstx3.theplanet.com [70.87.253.6]

 15   139 ms   137 ms   141 ms  76.fd.5746.static.theplanet.com [70.87.253.118]

 16   138 ms   141 ms   140 ms  vl2.car02.dllstx6.theplanet.com [12.96.160.55]
 17   139 ms   139 ms   139 ms  gator160.hostgator.com [74.52.105.194]

Trace complete.

...so, i emailed above.net support hoping that they could help me even though im not exactly a customer.

does anyone think this issue can be resolved or im i just screwed.

as u can see from your posts, evryone's either slow (100 ish) or fast (1mb ish)

[directhex]

13:28:22 (1.82 MB/s) - `index.html?id=test' saved [9500000/9500000]

on JANET

[hsncool]

and whats janet? :S

[Colossous]

225 k over the whole with Tiscali - North Wales.

[alsenior]

and whats janet? :S

it's the net connection all the academic institutions use

edit: ntl 4mb - started at 100KBps went down to 64kBps

[tigerboyce]

300ish

[mycarsavw]

350 - 400

South East Kent, 8meg BT

[Workaholic]

180 to 210KB for 5 seconds then drops to just under 100kb/s till the end

Northwest, Manchester, up to 8mb bb

[adam1701]

730kb/s ... on AOL ... maxed out!