Download speeds
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I had intermittent issues with my site (although my host has been extremely responsive and resolved all my issues). I use interserver.net and they are the best & I’ve used multiple hosts including godaddy (worst), smarterasp.net(better) & winhost Anyways I created a simple speed test on my site which displays the download time right on the page. You can see it and steal the extremely simple code at Test Load Speed[^] It simply uses a larger image to make the page take a bit longer I just ran it and saw downs load in 0.058 seconds But when I was having problems I saw the time got to 7-10 seconds
Don't worry raddevus, I won't tell anyone you're using a Mac. Your secret is safe with me. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Well, tracert shows no big delays over all the hops.
The good news is, it's not the servers then. So they're probably just manually throttling your bandwidth. :laugh: :laugh:
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
My plan boasts unlimited diskspace and bandwidth, but by bandwidth, they are referring to number of bytes transferred, not speed.
Yeah, most do that. Nobody ever gonna say in their sales pitch... but we're gonna screw you this way. Cheerio.
Richard Andrew x64 wrote:
Have you ever tested the maximum download speed from your DreamHost website?
I only use it to host a stub website to help me keep a trademark, but I just ran a quick test through WSL and with DreamHost I can download a small file at around 600K/second. A similar small file off a government website is also 600K/second. Granted, the smaller the file less accurate that is. So, I also ran a test using [testfile.org](https://testfile.org/) and it clocked in at 19.3MB/second, as a point of reference. Keep in mind though, I'm on a Cable Modem use shared bandwidth. So, "real" speeds won't kick in unless you're streaming/doing larger downloads and your neighbors aren't on Netflix. But, at least the speed was the same as with the government website.
Jeremy Falcon
I, too, am on a cable modem. And the ISP speed test shows a peak of 360 Mbps. Am I foolish to think that a little guy like me could afford what it takes to have people download 200 MB files at that speed?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm using winhost.com to host my website. When I try to download a 200 MB file from the site, it comes down at less then 10 Mbps. A friend who lives about 40 miles away also experiences the same slow downloads from the website. I contacted support and the rep responded that the speed is normal. But with my cable internet, the file should come down in less than 10 seconds, not in 2 minutes. I don't have download lags with any other site, and I performed a speed test and scored about 360 Mbps. Anyone have experience: 0. With this company (Winhost?) 1. With a slow download speed from a website they maintain?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
I hate to generalize, but I think low cost web hosts are likely to provide low quality service. WinHost may be trying to get budget customers to upgrade their plans to a commercial tier. My site is hosted by the same company that hosts CP and I have no complaints about its performance. /ravi
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Don't worry raddevus, I won't tell anyone you're using a Mac. Your secret is safe with me. :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
Actually, I use all three of the BigThree OSes. 1) My main desktop (typing on now) I run Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS. 2) My laptop is now a Mac Pro M3 - I gave my older AMD R7 16GB Windows laptop to my wife -- it runs win11 now. 3) I also have a MacMini M1 running headless under my desk (connected via KVM) 4) I have a Win10 VM which I connect to via VirtualBox (whenever I'm forced to use Windows - rare these days) 5) I remote to work (from Linux using Remmina RDP) machines which run Windows 10 where write C# ala Visual Studio. :laugh:
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I, too, am on a cable modem. And the ISP speed test shows a peak of 360 Mbps. Am I foolish to think that a little guy like me could afford what it takes to have people download 200 MB files at that speed?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Weeeelllll.... :laugh: :laugh: :laugh:
Jeremy Falcon
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Actually, I use all three of the BigThree OSes. 1) My main desktop (typing on now) I run Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS. 2) My laptop is now a Mac Pro M3 - I gave my older AMD R7 16GB Windows laptop to my wife -- it runs win11 now. 3) I also have a MacMini M1 running headless under my desk (connected via KVM) 4) I have a Win10 VM which I connect to via VirtualBox (whenever I'm forced to use Windows - rare these days) 5) I remote to work (from Linux using Remmina RDP) machines which run Windows 10 where write C# ala Visual Studio. :laugh:
Noice. IMO, if one doesn't at least use them, they really shouldn't be having an opinion on them. These days I'm on Windows 11 and Debian 12 (WSL). No current plans to use a Mac again, but you never know... :~
Jeremy Falcon
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Noice. IMO, if one doesn't at least use them, they really shouldn't be having an opinion on them. These days I'm on Windows 11 and Debian 12 (WSL). No current plans to use a Mac again, but you never know... :~
Jeremy Falcon
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Yeah, the only reason I have the Macs is because I'm interested in developing iOS apps. I've written a couple and I'm currently writing one for a friend. We'll see how it goes.
That's cool, man.
Jeremy Falcon
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I'm using winhost.com to host my website. When I try to download a 200 MB file from the site, it comes down at less then 10 Mbps. A friend who lives about 40 miles away also experiences the same slow downloads from the website. I contacted support and the rep responded that the speed is normal. But with my cable internet, the file should come down in less than 10 seconds, not in 2 minutes. I don't have download lags with any other site, and I performed a speed test and scored about 360 Mbps. Anyone have experience: 0. With this company (Winhost?) 1. With a slow download speed from a website they maintain?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
Yes, I have a site on WinHost and I've been meaning to move for about a year now. Bandwidth is terrible. Unbelievably bad.
cheers Chris Maunder
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Actually, I use all three of the BigThree OSes. 1) My main desktop (typing on now) I run Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS. 2) My laptop is now a Mac Pro M3 - I gave my older AMD R7 16GB Windows laptop to my wife -- it runs win11 now. 3) I also have a MacMini M1 running headless under my desk (connected via KVM) 4) I have a Win10 VM which I connect to via VirtualBox (whenever I'm forced to use Windows - rare these days) 5) I remote to work (from Linux using Remmina RDP) machines which run Windows 10 where write C# ala Visual Studio. :laugh:
I've run bootcamp on mac hardware for years and my bootcamp partition just got corrupted and Windows can't seem to repair it. macOS can read the whole thing (or as much as I need it to read) with no problems so I think it's time I finally ditched bootcamp altogether. I still need Windows for a certain webforms app we wrote a while ago, plus a couple of other utilities I occasionally use, so a Windows VM makes sense. On which machine are you running Windows as a VM? The ubuntu or mac Mini? (I have the same mac mini bolted underneath my desk as well).
cheers Chris Maunder
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I've run bootcamp on mac hardware for years and my bootcamp partition just got corrupted and Windows can't seem to repair it. macOS can read the whole thing (or as much as I need it to read) with no problems so I think it's time I finally ditched bootcamp altogether. I still need Windows for a certain webforms app we wrote a while ago, plus a couple of other utilities I occasionally use, so a Windows VM makes sense. On which machine are you running Windows as a VM? The ubuntu or mac Mini? (I have the same mac mini bolted underneath my desk as well).
cheers Chris Maunder
I run the win10 VM via VirtualBox on my Ubuntu desktop. When I got my recent Mac Pro laptop I looked around a little to see if there is a way to run VirtualBox on it and it seems like there are challenges. Maybe stemming from M-chip hardware & virtualization or something.
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I run the win10 VM via VirtualBox on my Ubuntu desktop. When I got my recent Mac Pro laptop I looked around a little to see if there is a way to run VirtualBox on it and it seems like there are challenges. Maybe stemming from M-chip hardware & virtualization or something.
I have a DELL I've setup as triple boot: Ubuntu, Win11 and Debian so maybe that will just be my solution for now. Parallels runs Windows on Arm (for a hefty fee) and the new May 20 launch of the snapdragon powered laptops and latest windows release may mean Arm64 support (hence my M1 mini) might be more widely available. I did get Windows on Arm running on VMWare. Briefly. The VM just stopped working, as did the whole VMWare system. It was odd.
cheers Chris Maunder
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I'm using winhost.com to host my website. When I try to download a 200 MB file from the site, it comes down at less then 10 Mbps. A friend who lives about 40 miles away also experiences the same slow downloads from the website. I contacted support and the rep responded that the speed is normal. But with my cable internet, the file should come down in less than 10 seconds, not in 2 minutes. I don't have download lags with any other site, and I performed a speed test and scored about 360 Mbps. Anyone have experience: 0. With this company (Winhost?) 1. With a slow download speed from a website they maintain?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
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I'm using winhost.com to host my website. When I try to download a 200 MB file from the site, it comes down at less then 10 Mbps. A friend who lives about 40 miles away also experiences the same slow downloads from the website. I contacted support and the rep responded that the speed is normal. But with my cable internet, the file should come down in less than 10 seconds, not in 2 minutes. I don't have download lags with any other site, and I performed a speed test and scored about 360 Mbps. Anyone have experience: 0. With this company (Winhost?) 1. With a slow download speed from a website they maintain?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
In another comment you mention unlimited bandwidth on your plan, so assuming Max? looking through the "learn more" section: "Monthly Bandwidth/Data Transfer - Unlimited" This tells you nothing what they mean by bandwidth. Rate of transfer vs amount of transfer. If you are getting 10mb/s and support said that normal, that might be they are limiting transfer to 10MB/s BUT - you have unlimited amount for the month. so not like 50GB the basic plan has. Bandwidth sadly can be marketed as both amount of rate.
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I'm using winhost.com to host my website. When I try to download a 200 MB file from the site, it comes down at less then 10 Mbps. A friend who lives about 40 miles away also experiences the same slow downloads from the website. I contacted support and the rep responded that the speed is normal. But with my cable internet, the file should come down in less than 10 seconds, not in 2 minutes. I don't have download lags with any other site, and I performed a speed test and scored about 360 Mbps. Anyone have experience: 0. With this company (Winhost?) 1. With a slow download speed from a website they maintain?
The difficult we do right away... ...the impossible takes slightly longer.
You might get better results using a free cloudflare setup with their proxy setup. It means updating your DNS nameservers, but it is usually worth it. For my company website I pay for the higher tier setup for faster speeds and a better CDN.
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