Is 1000mbps usefull if 100mbps is not saturated ?

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.

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 :)

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

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...

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

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

dont you need raid5 to even think of utilizing gig speeds

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

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

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Originally Posted by haydeno

dont you need raid5 to even think of utilizing gig speeds

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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