Is 1000mbps usefull if 100mbps is not saturated ?

[arkan]

Hi,

I have a seedbox from hosting IE. I currently have 100mbps (well 2x100mbps, but thats a different story). Download speeds saturate this speed easily.

Upload speeds are like 3-4-5MBps. but that might be due to nature of trackers I am on.

Now the interesting thing is they offer a 1000mbps line for 25euro extra. So will there be any improvement in the upload speeds if I shift to that line?

Theoretically since I cant even saturate a 100mbps upload, there should not be an improvement... right ? But I was thinking, will I be on better /faster subnet that results in faster speeds ?

anyone who has 1000mbps from hosting IE, please share your experiences.
Thanks.

[RedRansom]

hardware too important for your connection speed...
forexample if you have 512 ram and celeron box your uploading will be 2mbs(usually)...
And you are talking about 1 gbs (I saw ovh box have 4 gb ram ) so you should improve hardware too

[TechnoMan80]

yes

you can't expect to reach 1 GB or even near of that with 512 or 1 GB of ram

but I have one box with 1 GB uplink, can't say that it is 10 times better than 100mbit channel, but it is much much better, obviously I've got 2 Gb of RAM on it

[arkan]

oh ok. i have core 2 duo 2.2ghz and 1gb ram on the box... with 2x160GB hdds on RAID0.

Ram usage does not exceed 300 MB...

[andra]

You need to have good SATA drivers to even get over 20MB/S.

[TechnoMan80]

on new server they use only sata drives.
with hardware they are brilliant.
I mean hosting-ie

[haydeno]

dont you need raid5 to even think of utilizing gig speeds

[arkan]

Theoretically with Raid0 my seedbox has 120MB/s sequential read speed...

[jonepb]

you need at least 2 gb+ ram to get 20mb with good cpu

[c0njur]

dont you need raid5 to even think of utilizing gig speeds

Wikipedia says that real speeds for SATA and SATAII drives are 150MB/s and 300MB/s, respectively.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_...A_3.0_Gbit.2Fs