Does Tera-byte cap downloads?

[Lynks]

Well, It's quite slow. I put a picture up (284k) of my desktop to show some friends. It was a pretty large file, so I zipped it and it ending up about 230k. The problem is when they downloaded it they only got around 3.0k per second. I didn't belive them so I downloaded it 2.7k a sec is the highest I got (56k). I usually get 5-6k a second.

I wondered why, and now I uploaded the same file @geocities, and guess what 5.5k a second. Are they having problems or do they cap downloads. Uploading is fine 4-5k a second on average

Lynks

[Technics]

Check to see if your isp uses alter.net to reach tera-byte if so theres ur problem cos alter.net kinda well suck right now.

[Lynks]

How should I check this?

Also, If it was this alter.net (Which I don't think because Im in Perth Australia) wouldnt uploads be slow also...

Thankyou
Lynks

[Lynks]

Yep Alter.net :(

Waa!

Whats wrong with Alter.net????

Anways it go's 14 hops then times out till it reaches mysite...

[Technics]

Think there network is too busy. They are good when the americans are sleeping lol.

[akersche]

interesting topic.

I was and still am thinking of going with tera-byte... (for a site of a friend I am developing and perhaps of a friend).

I know that there has been problems with the connection to Europe... But heard that this is fixed.
BUT I have heard really a lot good stuff about them and their support. And they are affordable and guess reliable.

But now I read some bad threads about them:
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?threadid=8052
http://www.webhostingtalk.com/showthread.php?s=222245e7c60b71a4d3831b89552da4fa&threadid=8335&highlight=terabyte
Also they have been down recently... But that's ok. No host is gonna be up all the time! (99,9% is good enough)

And heard that "RAQ control panels aren't really somthing to rave about"
http://www.freewebspace.net/forums/showthread.php?threadid=4230
I still think Raq is nice!

Now I pinged tera-byte and found out, that I hop also via alter.net (from Austria, Europe).
Well the site of my friend would be for costumeres in Austria, too. Perhaps they use a diffrent provider, but I bet they would also have to go over alter.net.

What's the matter with alter.net them?
Is the problem at the moment with all web-space providers at the moment? Or are otheres routed diffrent?
Thought it would be ok to go with an American (Canadian) host...

I got some larger files, too. (1.5mb) At least for my private site... Some student stuff... Currently I host with my university and download rate should be 60k per second. (well not if you got a slow connection).

What be pleased to hear what's up with Alter.net and some more opinions on tera-byte and what alternatives are good.
(VDI, DialtoneInternet, webhosting.com,...)

Greetings Arno

[Woofcat]

Tera-byte is usually faster when it goes through alter.net (as opposed to sprintlink)... They have had some network problems but I've never seen a problem with alter.net...

[akersche]

glad to hear that!

sounds like a temporarry problem...

[Lynks]

Guess I have to wait, anyways Tera-byte (although not one of the cheap ones) is great. Questions are usually answered within an hour and they have answered all my questions.

The speed "Was" fast when I registered but because of the problems with ALTER.NET, it has slowed done a bit. The only thing you will really notice is the download speeds from your site.

I would recommended them

Lynks

[jw]

alter.net is uunet(mci worldcom) i believe

[Woofcat]

Can someone post a traceroute that shows a problem with alter.net? I just haven't seen it...

[akersche]

here is my trace-route to tera-byte... the problem seems to be with node 24.
did cut the first 4 nodes... no need to know my ip.
chello.at is my provider...

5 2 1 212.17.99.5 Unknown at-vie-r11a-aorta-fe01.chello.at
6 2 2 213.46.160.189 Unknown de-fra-rc-01-pos-2-0.chellonetwork.com
7 2 3 213.46.160.69 Unknown fr-par-rc-01-pos-0-0.chellonetwork.com
8 2 4 213.46.160.66 Unknown fr-par-rc-02-pos-1-0.chellonetwork.com
9 2 5 213.46.160.49 Unknown uk-lon-rc-01-pos-0-0.chellonetwork.com
10 2 5 213.46.160.54 Unknown uk-lon-rd-01-pos-1-0.chellonetwork.com
11 3 - 212.187.151.161 Unknown
12 4 6 212.187.131.2 Unknown ge-6-2-0-0.mp2.lon1.level3.net
13 5 7 212.187.128.46 Unknown so-3-0-0-0.mp1.lon2.level3.net
14 6 - 212.187.128.190 Unknown
15 - 8 209.247.8.42 WASHINGTON D.C. so-3-0-0.mp2.washington1.level3.net
16 - 6 209.247.10.78 WASHINGTON D.C. pos9-0.core2.washington1.level3.net
17 - 9 137.39.52.153 WASHINGTON D.C. atm2-0.br1.dca6.alter.net
18 - 9 152.63.38.114 WASHINGTON D.C. 0.so-3-0-0.xl1.dca6.alter.net
19 - 9 152.63.38.86 WASHINGTON D.C. 0.so-7-0-0.xr1.dca6.alter.net
20 - 9 152.63.11.101 WASHINGTON D.C. 0.so-4-0-0.tr1.dca6.alter.net
21 - 10 146.188.142.41 Chicago 121.at-6-0-0.tr1.chi4.alter.net
22 - 11 146.188.208.241 Chicago 199.atm6-0.xr1.chi6.alter.net
23 - 9 146.188.209.169 Chicago 191.atm6-0.gw6.chi6.alter.net
24 - - 0.0.0.0 Unknown No Response
25 - - 204.50.128.138 Unknown
26 - 12 207.107.204.162 Unknown core1-s5-1.edm.tera-byte.com
27 - 13 216.234.160.26 Unknown cat6006-vlan10.edm.tera-byte.com
28 - 12 216.234.160.42 Unknown fw-tb-fxp0.edm.tera-byte.com
29 - 13 216.234.161.11 Unknown raptor.tera-byte.com

[Lynks]

How do I post it??

I can edit through MSDOS gues I have to save an image file!

Here Goes:

http://thetruth.hobbiton.org/Image2.gif

[CJB]

Originally posted by akersche
here is my trace-route to tera-byte... the problem seems to be with node 24.
did cut the first 4 nodes... no need to know my ip.
chello.at is my provider...

5 2 1 212.17.99.5 Unknown at-vie-r11a-aorta-fe01.chello.at
6 2 2 213.46.160.189 Unknown de-fra-rc-01-pos-2-0.chellonetwork.com
7 2 3 213.46.160.69 Unknown fr-par-rc-01-pos-0-0.chellonetwork.com
8 2 4 213.46.160.66 Unknown fr-par-rc-02-pos-1-0.chellonetwork.com
9 2 5 213.46.160.49 Unknown uk-lon-rc-01-pos-0-0.chellonetwork.com
10 2 5 213.46.160.54 Unknown uk-lon-rd-01-pos-1-0.chellonetwork.com
11 3 - 212.187.151.161 Unknown
12 4 6 212.187.131.2 Unknown ge-6-2-0-0.mp2.lon1.level3.net
13 5 7 212.187.128.46 Unknown so-3-0-0-0.mp1.lon2.level3.net
14 6 - 212.187.128.190 Unknown
15 - 8 209.247.8.42 WASHINGTON D.C. so-3-0-0.mp2.washington1.level3.net
16 - 6 209.247.10.78 WASHINGTON D.C. pos9-0.core2.washington1.level3.net
17 - 9 137.39.52.153 WASHINGTON D.C. atm2-0.br1.dca6.alter.net
18 - 9 152.63.38.114 WASHINGTON D.C. 0.so-3-0-0.xl1.dca6.alter.net
19 - 9 152.63.38.86 WASHINGTON D.C. 0.so-7-0-0.xr1.dca6.alter.net
20 - 9 152.63.11.101 WASHINGTON D.C. 0.so-4-0-0.tr1.dca6.alter.net
21 - 10 146.188.142.41 Chicago 121.at-6-0-0.tr1.chi4.alter.net
22 - 11 146.188.208.241 Chicago 199.atm6-0.xr1.chi6.alter.net
23 - 9 146.188.209.169 Chicago 191.atm6-0.gw6.chi6.alter.net
24 - - 0.0.0.0 Unknown No Response
25 - - 204.50.128.138 Unknown
26 - 12 207.107.204.162 Unknown core1-s5-1.edm.tera-byte.com
27 - 13 216.234.160.26 Unknown cat6006-vlan10.edm.tera-byte.com
28 - 12 216.234.160.42 Unknown fw-tb-fxp0.edm.tera-byte.com
29 - 13 216.234.161.11 Unknown raptor.tera-byte.com

Hop 24 is firewalled. It won't respond in a traceroute because of that. This has no effect on the route itself.

[akersche]

Thanks, CJB. learnt something again.

i guess the problem is/was just that there was to much load... are some parts had to be resent for a large download...

Anybody know, if tera-byte is working fine again (via alter.net)

[CJB]

My route to Tera-Byte goes through ALTER.NET and I haven't had any problems.

traceroute to mircx.com (216.234.161.197), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 gateway.planetjurai.org (216.201.36.193) 0.402 ms 0.389 ms 0.294 ms
2 router.planetjurai.org (192.168.0.2) 2.944 ms 2.912 ms 3.084 ms
3 216.201.0.141 (216.201.0.141) 6.097 ms 7.324 ms 5.857 ms
4 akro-woos-gw.bright.net (205.212.158.13) 13.720 ms 17.858 ms 14.515 ms
5 akro-gw.bright.net (209.143.19.1) 23.878 ms 22.463 ms 9.647 ms
6 com1-akro-gw.bright.net (205.212.159.9) 15.253 ms 12.106 ms 15.302 ms
7 500.POS3-0.GW2.CMH2.ALTER.NET (65.195.241.49) 16.444 ms 14.778 ms 22.838ms
8 179.at-5-0-0.XR2.CMH2.ALTER.NET (152.63.66.150) 23.396 ms 18.533 ms 14.424 ms
9 288.ATM6-0.XR2.CHI6.ALTER.NET (152.63.67.1) 44.922 ms 39.658 ms 35.173 ms
10 190.ATM7-0.GW6.CHI6.ALTER.NET (146.188.209.173) 30.889 ms 30.149 ms 31.741 ms
11 * * *
12 204.50.128.138 (204.50.128.138) 57.113 ms 60.181 ms 68.914 ms
13 core1-s5-1.edm.tera-byte.com (207.107.204.162) 65.820 ms 72.101 ms 80.928 ms
14 cat6006-vlan10.edm.tera-byte.com (216.234.160.26) 74.781 ms 70.831 ms 75.957 ms
15 fw-colo-fxp0.edm.tera-byte.com (216.234.160.58) 64.341 ms 66.882 ms 64.195 ms
16 mircx.com (216.234.161.197) 75.724 ms 71.039 ms 77.444 ms

bash-2.04$ fetch http://www.mircx.com/files/mirc582t.exe
Receiving mirc582t.exe (1053184 bytes): 100%
1053184 bytes transferred in 10.1 seconds (101.97 kBps)