what's your arrangement with your isp? you might be on the consumer plans instead of the plans with CIR.
On Fri, Aug 8, 2008 at 10:28 AM, plug bert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello All, > > Need your inputs peeps. > > We're currently running some tests on our link, which is supposed to be a > 2Mbps dedicated line. The test involves putting up an iperf server on our > side, then running iperf in client mode on the remote side(i.e. Hong Kong). > > > So far the number's we're getting aren't very impressive: initially we only > got 150-180kbps, and only recently, around 300kbps. > > > i know that it's wishful thinking to expect anything near 2Mbps, but i really > wasn't expecting the numbers to be that bad; i was expecting at least > somewhere in the 1.5Mbps range. > > > 1.) Is it reasonable to expect those figures? The thing is that we're > getting more or less the same numbers(actually, a little better numbers) from > our backup link -- which doesn't even cost half of what we're paying for the > link in question. Even if the speedtest.net results suggest that we're > hitting 1Mbps...well, fact of the matter is, we don't need 1-2mbps going to > speedtest.net, we need 2mbps going to our HK office B) > > > Right now i'm thinking in terms of the cost; i.e. if we're paying X times > more for this ISP, then the link should be at least X times faster than our > backup link. Mas reasonable po ba kung ganito ang reasoning? > > > > 2.) i read somewhere that the TCP window size can affect the speed; the > impression i got from some sites is that you can increase performance in > orders of magnitude. However, from my own testing, i find that the difference > is marginal once you hit around 8kb -- i.e. the iperf results didn't vary > that much when the specified window size is around 8Kb all the way up to > 4Mb(there's only a very significant difference when you set it at > ridiculously small sizes, e.g. 10 - 100 bytes). By default i think Linux sets > it to 16kb, so right now i'm inclined to just disregard its effect on the > speed/testing. > > > 3.) btw, are there any other alternatives to really get 2mbps going to our > remote site? Leased line perhaps? > > > tia > > > > > > > > > > _________________________________________________ > Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List > http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug > Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph > -- Seek ye first the kingdom of God and all these things shall be added unto you. Winelfred G. Pasamba Adventist University of the Philippines Online Information Systems _________________________________________________ Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Mailing List http://lists.linux.org.ph/mailman/listinfo/plug Searchable Archives: http://archives.free.net.ph
