I'm new to linode, not new to linux but by no means a guru. Anyway I'm happy to have a Linode 360 but I am finding the speed a bit slow. It could be my location (Perth, Australia), but I am wondering if VPS are allocated speed proportional to transfer quota and if I would get a boost if I upgraded to a Linode 512 plan.

I am not going to do much with the server: I want it as a PPTP server, and also to host my domains, mostly static HTML and email forwards and one LAMP site. My gut says I'll get by on a 360 plan but am happy to pay the extra if moving to a 512 plan will improve my speed.

Thanks!

Unlike with other providers, here at Linode your bandwidth isn't capped at a certain speed. You can use all the speed that other users are not using. Upgrading will not do any good unless your download is somehow bound by RAM, which is unlikely.

My Linode 360 can pump out upwards of 10MB/s as long as the other side has a fast enough connection. Using the same Linode 360, I once downloaded somebody's file at 60MB/s. Yes, that's megabytes per second. Insane, I know

It's not too flash from the east coast either, even worse when you chuck in a SAT link. So it's probably your location.

Just something you learn to live with.

80 millisecond pings from the living room couch here in Birmingham, Alabama USA to a Dallas Linode:

PING zunzun.com (67.18.176.130) 56(84) bytes of data.
64 bytes from zunzun.com (67.18.176.130): icmp_seq=1 ttl=51 time=84.1 ms
64 bytes from zunzun.com (67.18.176.130): icmp_seq=2 ttl=51 time=81.6 ms
64 bytes from zunzun.com (67.18.176.130): icmp_seq=3 ttl=51 time=84.9 ms
64 bytes from zunzun.com (67.18.176.130): icmp_seq=4 ttl=51 time=80.9 ms
64 bytes from zunzun.com (67.18.176.130): icmp_seq=5 ttl=51 time=81.2 ms
64 bytes from zunzun.com (67.18.176.130): icmp_seq=6 ttl=51 time=82.8 ms

Would you please post results of a similar test? Maybe part of the problem is latency.

James

What data center are you in?