We've put up a file for demonstrating throughput speed to potential clients. This is hosted on a Xen linux VPS connected to our network on a gigabit port in the Interxion central London datacentre.
http://speedtest.xtrahost.co.uk/100Mb-test.file
Here's some testing we did earlier..
--2009-12-15 16:14:55-- http://speedtest.xtrahost.co.uk/100Mb-test.file
Resolving speedtest.xtrahost.co.uk... 82.113.149.200
Connecting to speedtest.xtrahost.co.uk|82.113.149.200|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [text/plain]
Saving to: `100Mb-test.file'
[=======================================================================>] 104,857,600 85.3M/s in 1.2s 2009-12-15 16:14:56 (85.3 MB/s) - `100Mb-test.file' saved [104857600/104857600]
That's 85.3 Mbytes a second or 682 Mbps or so!
Here's the traceroute for the same transfer:
traceroute to speedtest.xtrahost.co.uk (82.113.149.200), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 109.x.x.x (109.x.x.x) 0.481 ms 0.473 ms 0.536 ms
2 te3-1-border76-01.lon2.telecity.net (217.20.44.217) 0.701 ms * *
3 0-0-peer12-01.lon1.telecity.net (85.90.226.210) 0.611 ms 0.585 ms 0.609 ms
4 linx-peering-02.xtraordinary.net.uk (195.66.226.241) 1.180 ms 1.229 ms 1.311 ms
5 speedtest.xtrahost.co.uk (82.113.149.200) 1.034 ms 1.011 ms 0.890 ms
I think those results speak for themselves.
Ivan Groenewald
