Hi all, I'm new here and I'm thinking of purchasing a hosting package but I would like to have something cleared up before I do.
I'm in the UK (Please don't hold that against me  ) I have a 16mb copper connection but in fairness, I live a distance away from my exchange so the best I get is 5.5mb. I can d/l from other sites like apple (I use a mac) at this speed (5.5mb) all day long if need be, but when I use your 100MB test file, the best I can get is 320kb and when I use the 2 different 10MB files in the post, they both d/l at 295kb. Also, when I click on a link to any of Lunar's pages, I get a lag of about 5 seconds before the page starts to load. I know all sorts of things can contribute to this but I've a fairly good system (Quad G5 2.5ghz 4Gig of Ram top end grfx card) so its not down to my system and tests using other sites in USA both before and after show that I get my full speed with them.
I have done a trace route and ping to both LP.co.uk LP.com and the results are below, you tech's will be able to see if they're good or bad better than I.
UK Ping:
Ping has started ...

PING lunarpages.co.uk (209.200.229.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=191.561 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=193.525 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=194.545 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=194.565 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=194.615 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=194.623 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=194.403 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=7 ttl=53 time=193.504 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=8 ttl=53 time=194.954 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=9 ttl=53 time=191.559 ms

--- lunarpages.co.uk ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 191.559/193.785/194.954/1.199 ms

UK Trace Route:
Traceroute has started ...

traceroute to lunarpages.co.uk (209.200.229.4), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  1.995 ms  0.588 ms  0.492 ms
 2  cr0.slmos.uk.easynet.net (87.87.248.250)  43.278 ms  42.423 ms  59.301 ms
 3  87.87.139.65 (87.87.139.65)  38.780 ms  38.853 ms  38.883 ms
 4  easynet-ic-121677-ldn.b4.c.telia.net (80.239.193.110)  44.115 ms  44.179 ms  44.053 ms
 5  ldn-b4-link.telia.net (80.239.193.109)  44.127 ms  44.884 ms  44.530 ms
 6  ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.250.234)  44.366 ms  44.238 ms  43.809 ms
 7  nyk-bb1-pos0-2-0.telia.net (213.248.65.90)  114.638 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (213.248.65.98)  113.469 ms  113.132 ms
 8  las-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.254.17)  194.705 ms  191.530 ms  192.879 ms
 9  * * *
10  * * *
11  ge2-lunarpages.cust.lax02.mzima.net (72.37.172.26)  193.841 ms ge1-lunarpages.cust.lax02.mzima.net (216.193.192.66)  194.971 ms ge2-lunarpages.cust.lax02.mzima.net (72.37.172.26)  193.448 ms
12  * * *
 the stars went down to 27 then I stopped it.

USA Ping:
Ping has started ...

PING lunarpages.com (209.200.229.4): 56 data bytes
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=0 ttl=53 time=192.979 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=1 ttl=53 time=191.954 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=2 ttl=53 time=191.518 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=3 ttl=53 time=195.011 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=4 ttl=53 time=193.561 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=5 ttl=53 time=191.842 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=6 ttl=53 time=195.342 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=7 ttl=53 time=194.842 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=8 ttl=53 time=191.463 ms
64 bytes from 209.200.229.4: icmp_seq=9 ttl=53 time=191.987 ms

--- lunarpages.com ping statistics ---
10 packets transmitted, 10 packets received, 0% packet loss
round-trip min/avg/max/stddev = 191.463/193.050/195.342/1.457 ms

USA Trace Route:

Traceroute has started ...

traceroute to lunarpages.com (209.200.229.4), 64 hops max, 40 byte packets
 1  192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1)  1.065 ms  0.588 ms  0.530 ms
 2  cr0.slmos.uk.easynet.net (87.87.248.250)  42.458 ms  63.243 ms  42.844 ms
 3  87.87.139.65 (87.87.139.65)  38.713 ms  38.151 ms  38.886 ms
 4  easynet-ic-121677-ldn.b4.c.telia.net (80.239.193.110)  44.647 ms  43.757 ms  44.282 ms
 5  ldn-b4-link.telia.net (80.239.193.109)  45.123 ms  44.491 ms  44.170 ms
 6  ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.249.77)  44.078 ms  65.359 ms ldn-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.251.18)  44.377 ms
 7  nyk-bb1-pos0-2-0.telia.net (213.248.65.90)  114.528 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.249.249)  117.151 ms  117.344 ms
 8  las-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.254.17)  194.898 ms  194.077 ms  191.100 ms
 9  * * vl341ge1-7.cr01.lax02.mzima.net (213.248.94.34)  197.767 ms
10  * * *
11  ge1-lunarpages.cust.lax02.mzima.net (216.193.192.66)  203.739 ms ge2-lunarpages.cust.lax02.mzima.net (72.37.172.26)  197.287 ms  197.906 ms
12  * * *
I stopped it again at 16 as I assumed it was going nowhere or somewhere it shouldn't be.
So are these any good? Why are your pages slow to start when I click on them?
Also, I would like to know, if lets say, I had an account, and ten or twenty peeps were to d/l the same file off my site at the same time, is the bandwidth speed going to be shared between them all slowing the d/l down to a trickle or will they all get the full bandwidth?
My last point, (honest) what are the upload speeds as I need my customers to be able to upload files to me up to 300MB I would imagine and I will need to upload files sometimes above 1GB at a time. Not for storing, for them to d/l their DVD that I will have made them from their uploaded files.
My own upload speed is 768 and I do reach those speeds but I may be changing to an ISP that offers 3mb upload with 24mb d/l soon so can your sites handle that?
Hope you can answer me these questions?
Thanks very much in advance, hope to be a customer soon as my host at the moment is USELESS! (Siteground.com) you can read my review here

http://www.customerhostingreviews.com/siteground

Woody

Connection pretty much maxes out....



BTW, im just wondering whats LunarPages' available bandwidth a second?

Been searching the last couple days for a new hosting outfit.  Saw your download speed thing while I was checking out various companies.  Don't know why I signed up for the forum just to make this post but I have to say I am very impressed.  My current web host-- WebHost4Life-- and I have been going round and round for days on ftp download speed.  I am getting dial-up, yes, 57 KB/s and they had the nerve to insist that was normal download speed on a shared server.  I tested the 100 MB file here.  It took about 2 minutes with an average transfer rate of exactly 1 MB/s and a peak speed of 1.3 MB/s.

This only leaves me with one question.  Are we downloading from a shared or dedicated server?  Either way it's some darn nice download speed!   

Hi guys,

Could you do a test for me please as well.

I have uploaded a file into one of LP servers
1. http://www.lunarpages.com/speedtest/data10MB.zip - this is the original link posted here on the first page.
2. http://fetu.lunarmania.com/~chern6/speedtest/data10MB.zip - this is the file I uploaded into my LP account.

I am from Australia. I have ADSL2+ at about 10 Mbit/s. So the fastest I can go (from microsoft.com, for example) is about 1000 Kb/s.
I am getting the first file at about 300 Kb/s.
But only about 20 Kb/s for the second one.

It's obviously they are located at different places. And for some reason one place is much slower then the other for me.

I can provide traceroutes if it helps.

The first one (the quick one):


The second one (the slow one):

Any ideas?
And thank you for your time.

Thanks for the test.
Today I am getting about 350 Kb/s for the first one. And about 25 kb/s for the second one. 

the server is extreemly slow, i usually download at 8Mbytes/s on this server i only got 200Kbytes/s !

I've been getting complaints from customers these last few weeks about the downloadspeeds.
I used to get 75 to 100kbps here in Belgium, which isn't fast, but ok for most (simple) sites.
But now...

 
It has nothing to do with my ISP (350kbps, some customers 1200kbps)
I'm thinking about starting a video podcast, but with this speed I guess I'll have to change host