Is it just me, or is the network speed declining lately? I ran wget tests going to /dev/null on 3 different nodes and was getting the following:

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-22 18:49:43--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 15.7M/s   in 6.7s

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-22 18:50:41--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 7.74M/s   in 13s 

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-22 18:51:15--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 1.86M/s   in 33s

I know I used to get much faster speeds, usually around 50-70M/s

Any thoughts?

which region are you in?

Newark

I'm getting the same speeds in London.

My Rackspace VM shows 70M/s.

I'm pretty sure when I moved the majority of my stuff from Rackspace I was getting higher speeds as well...

Exactly. I have 2 much lower end VPS's elsewhere for testing type purposes, and on one I get much faster speed than here.

You know I think you're right. I'm in Newark as well and when I just got my account I could have sworn I downloaded an Ubuntu CD image at ~100MB/s. I remember thinking to myself that my Linode had a gigabit connection to the Internet.

Nowadays I hardly see anything over 10MB/s but that is probably all anecdotal anyway.

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wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-22 20:13:07--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: â/dev/nullâ

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 9.59M/s   in 16s

Dallas here, use to get +70M/s also, 9.59M/s is still fast, but still a change.

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-22 19:23:51--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: "/dev/null"

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 10.3M/s   in 10s

From my dedicated server on a 100Mbps he.net line. Hosted in Kansas City.

So I just ran these tests on two Linodes.

Newark:

wget http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-22 20:13:34--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `100mb.test'

100%[================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 4.66M/s   in 23s

2012-01-22 20:13:57 (4.42 MB/s) - `100mb.test' saved [104857600/104857600]

Atlanta:

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-22 20:17:42--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 205.234.175.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|205.234.175.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 104,857,600 25.9M/s   in 4.0s

2012-01-22 20:17:46 (24.9 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [104857600/104857600]

The 2 Linodes in Newark that I just tested are performing equally poorly compared to the one in Atlanta.

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We have multiple 10 Gbit links into each of our datacenters' core networks.

Stuff like this is always going to be incidental since, alas, we don't control cachefly or what they do, nor to we control the Internet between your Linode and them.

For whatever it's worth, the board is green on our end.

-Chris

It appears I am not alone

Don't get me wrong, I agree it's still decent speed, but it's nowhere near what it was or what I would expect from a premium provider. On one of my nodes I only use about 30GB of my allocated 200GB/mo, but I have setup and update files that get downloaded frequently by customers and I do not want them to get sub-par download speeds.

@caker
cachefly is somewhat of a standard test. Can you suggest something else? Please don't think I am on here just ranting, but I am concerned.

Here is a wget from one node in Newark to another in Newark:

wget -O /dev/null http://www.*****.com/**/setup.exe
--2012-01-22 19:35:19--  http://www.*****.com/**/setup.exe
Resolving www.*****.com... 66.228.xx.xxx
Connecting to www.*****.com|66.228.xx.xxx|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 135758846 (129M) [application/x-msdos-program]
Saving to: `/dev/null'

100%[======================================>] 135,758,846 5.04M/s   in 25s     

2012-01-22 19:35:44 (5.10 MB/s) - `/dev/null' saved [135758846/135758846]

Please excuse the *'s and x's, but I don't want to publicly put that out there

Which is to be expected since the outgoing NIC speed on a Linode, by default (which we can raise with justification), is limited to 50Mbits/sec (about 5-6MB/sec). So that speed is normal.

We don't control the Internet, unfortunately, so anything that goes via the Internet is going to be subject to its peculiarities.

My advice: if it's fast enough, don't worry about it.

-Chris

@caker
Ahh, I did not realize that, thank you for clearing that up.

Who do we talk to about that?

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My Linode in London:

wget -O /dev/null http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
--2012-01-23 02:57:00--  http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
Resolving cachefly.cachefly.net... 140.99.94.175
Connecting to cachefly.cachefly.net|140.99.94.175|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: “/dev/null”

100%[============================================================================================================>] 104,857,600 39.9M/s   in 2.5s

2012-01-23 02:57:02 (39.9 MB/s) - “/dev/null” saved [104857600/104857600]