Luthorn
join:2001-02-01
Hebron, KY
| Speeds great to the east coast, not so great to the west
Since I've been upgraded to the new 10/1 speeds in the standard tier I've noticed something which is a little annoying.
When I run speed tests to Florida, New York, and servers local to the Cincinnati area, I get pretty close to the 10/1 speeds I am supposed to get. However, when I run speed tests to the west coast (LA for example), I get speeds anywhere from 1.5 mbit to 3.0 mbit down. Upload looks good though.
Anyone else seeing this? I've run the tweak tests a few times to make sure I don't have any issues. Traceroutes are inconclusive. I was getting over 200 ms pings out to the west coast last week, but now they have settled down to the 50-70 ms range. So, while my ping is good, I'm just not getting good bandwidth.
Now, I realize that speed tests are not "real world" tests, so I should also note that I've noticed slower speeds from main websites like nvidia.com (downloaded video driver), and fileplanet (downloaded Quake 4 demo with a PREMIUM account). In the past, I've always had close to my theoretical maximum from those sites, but now it is even slower than what I was getting before the 10/1 upgrade.
So, any ideas what is going on? Is there a backbone overloaded somewhere? Some quick traceroutes would indicate not, but can they (Sprint or whoever) be "throttling" connections at the backbone level per IP? |
