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arkan
07-18-2008, 05:01 PM
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
07-18-2008, 05:31 PM
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 ) :unsure: so you should improve hardware too :)
TechnoMan80
07-18-2008, 05:43 PM
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
07-18-2008, 07:26 PM
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
07-20-2008, 09:27 AM
You need to have good SATA drivers to even get over 20MB/S.
TechnoMan80
07-20-2008, 02:45 PM
on new server they use only sata drives.
with hardware they are brilliant.
I mean hosting-ie
haydeno
07-20-2008, 08:06 PM
dont you need raid5 to even think of utilizing gig speeds
arkan
07-20-2008, 08:54 PM
Theoretically with Raid0 my seedbox has 120MB/s sequential read speed...
jonepb
07-20-2008, 08:58 PM
you need at least 2 gb+ ram to get 20mb with good cpu :D
c0njur
07-21-2008, 04:23 AM
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_ATA#SATA_3.0_Gbit.2Fs
haydeno
07-21-2008, 05:19 AM
thats sata speeds tho not the drive speed
tknaught
07-21-2008, 05:56 AM
Torrent uploads tend not to be sequential transfers. You're only really sequentially transferring on a block basis.