Re: [cobalt-users] A Word About Cobaltracks.Com and Bandwidth Usage

[shimi <shimi@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, 12 Apr 2001, Cobalt-Canada wrote:

> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Marc Gear" <marcg@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> To: <cobalt-users@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Thursday, April 12, 2001 6:28 AM
> Subject: Re: [cobalt-users] A Word About Cobaltracks.Com and Bandwidth Usage
> 
> 
> > > In a given month if you fully utilized your bandwidth...
> etc.
> > I get a steady 49 Kilobytes/second from cobaltracks.
> > 49 Kb a sec over a period of a minute is 2.87Mb/min
> > that over an hour is 172.2Mb/Hr
> > Over a day that is about 4.04Gb
> > Allowing 28 days in a month you i could transfer 113Gb.
> >
> > My excess bandwidth costs to cobaltracks for this would be about $170.
> > This is dead cheap. However, if i had a mission critical enterprise that
> was
> > likley to do 51Gb of transfer a month i would probably not be hosting it
> > with a company that charged me only $99 a month.
> >
> > I have no problem with cobaltracks, i'd love it to be faster, but it
> serves
> > its purpose, which for me is a cheap 'playbox'
> > --
> > /\/\ a R (
> 
> When I look at CobaltRacks, I see about 30 Kbps looking with WS_Ping ProPak.
> Sometimes. What do the rest of you see from your servers? Also
> http://visualroute.visualware.com/ is useful for seeing a bit of info when
> the packet loss is high.
> 
> Arthur
> 

Download from 4webspace.com (tera-byte.com) via FTP of an ~8MB mp3 file:

local: U2 - Stuck In A Moment.mp3 remote: U2 - Stuck In A Moment.mp3
200 PORT command successful.
150 Opening BINARY mode data connection for U2 - Stuck In A Moment.mp3. 
226 Transfer complete.
8087012 bytes recieved in 192 secs (41 Kbytes/sec)
ftp>   

when uploading to them, I can get easily to 400Kbytes/sec...

- shimi.