We currently host our own Windows 2000 web servers in a rack at a neutral data centre. We have a link to an ISP who provide our Internet Connection which is supposed to be 10Mbps CIR.
My question, is there a reliable way to test that we are getting the bandwidth we are paying for, either a downloadable utility or online service (UK based)? We are tested on the WEBPERF service are we see results roughly equivalent to 3Mbps (350 - 400 KB/sec).
I have tried the ZDNet Bandwidth Speedtest which returned results of approx. 5.5Mbps and also downloaded some large files from external websites for which Internet Explorer displayed transfer rates of approx. 700Kbps (5.6Mbps).
There is a PIX firewall between our servers and the ISP connection (which is presented in our rack through Ethernet) but it should be able to handle far more traffic than this. All ethernet ports are configured to Half-Duplex, 10Mbps on the ISP side and 100Mbps on our side, would setting the ports to Full-Duplex improve our speed.
My question, is there a reliable way to test that we are getting the bandwidth we are paying for, either a downloadable utility or online service (UK based)? We are tested on the WEBPERF service are we see results roughly equivalent to 3Mbps (350 - 400 KB/sec).
I have tried the ZDNet Bandwidth Speedtest which returned results of approx. 5.5Mbps and also downloaded some large files from external websites for which Internet Explorer displayed transfer rates of approx. 700Kbps (5.6Mbps).
There is a PIX firewall between our servers and the ISP connection (which is presented in our rack through Ethernet) but it should be able to handle far more traffic than this. All ethernet ports are configured to Half-Duplex, 10Mbps on the ISP side and 100Mbps on our side, would setting the ports to Full-Duplex improve our speed.