Try a traceroute to the site in Orefon and see where the bottle neck is? Could also be that the speedtest server in OR is bogged down...
-Mike On Feb 16, 2015 10:18 PM, "Glen Kent" <glen.k...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi, > > I have a server in Mountain View and i am doing a speedtest with a server > in Oregon. I see that the upload/download BW that i am getting is low -- > around 10.0Mbps and 5.0Mbps. > > gkent@ubuntu:~/ics$ speedtest-cli --server 4082 > Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... > Retrieving speedtest.net server list... > Testing from Comcast Cable (50.250.251.210)... > Hosted by Eastern Oregon Net, Inc. (La Grande, OR) [913.33 km]: 120.959 ms > Testing download speed........................................ > Download: 5.08 Mbits/s > Testing upload speed.................................................. > Upload: 10.89 Mbits/s > > When i check my connectivity with a server in NYC, its much better, though > the server is much further away. > > gkent@ubuntu:~/ics$ speedtest-cli --server 2947 > Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... > Retrieving speedtest.net server list... > Testing from Comcast Cable (50.250.251.210)... > Hosted by Atlantic Metro (New York City, NY) [4129.02 km]: 307.568 ms > Testing download speed........................................ > Download: 38.52 Mbits/s > Testing upload speed.................................................. > Upload: 10.62 Mbits/s > > I am trying to understand why this is so? I would wager that NYC being > further away would give me a worse throughput than OR, but the speedtest > tells me otherwise. > > The 2nd and more puzzling observation is that while OR is giving a download > of around 5.08Mbps, it will improve and become much better later in the > day. There are times when i see it going up as high as 48Mbps. > > Sometimes while a transfer is in progress i see that my download suddenly > goes down from 48Mbps to 2Mbps. > > Can somebody here tell me why such a drastic fluctuation is seen? > > Thanks, Glen >
