--- On Mon, 8/11/08, Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> From: Orlando Andico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Subject: Re: [plug] bandwidth testing with iperf, TCP window size
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED], "Philippine Linux Users' Group (PLUG) Technical
> Discussion List" <[email protected]>
> Date: Monday, August 11, 2008, 5:43 PM
> If you're not getting interface rate, that's not a
> leased line.
>
> A "leased line" is a virtual circuit interface,
> you control the
> routers at both ends. So you really get your 2Mbit. What
> you really
> have is an IP aggregated link... good luck getting 2Mbit
> out of that.
>
Yah, i was really skeptical when they referred to it as a "leased line"; afaik
it's akin to having physical copper cable between point A to point B. i guess
these kids today have redefined the term "leased line" B)
> Peering with HK-based ISP's might be an issue, maybe
> you should get
> your bandwidth from Reach (in RCBC Plaza... unless
> they're gone now)
> as they are/were partially owned by PCCW which is pretty
> much the
> telecom monopoly in HK.
>
Hmmm...will look into that. Thanks B)
Just an update: i set up a web server and did the usual http download from
Hong Kong; apparently we're hitting 1Mbps+ . This is quite different from the
numbers i'm getting from iperf(bug?). i downloaded and recompiled iperf with
--disable-threads(there's a note about having to apply a patch for kernel
2.6.31 and higher, but since threads are disabled i didn't bother with it), but
still getting the same numbers. i got suspicious when iperf reported that the
link was hitting 123bits/sec; sa isip ko lang if we were really going that
slow, the users would have been out for blood.
i managed to set up the speedtest.net mini app and did some tests with Hong
Kong, as a tiebreaker.
>
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> Orlando Andico
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