Thread: Customseedbox.com

Originally Posted by nixoni

Can someone tell me , are you all complaining to 2010 plans? How about the old 2009 plans? Are they working good?

I'm not complaining, yet. ;)



I ordered a while ago and was told a couple of days ago I'd get it this week sometime. Once I get to try it I'll give an opinion of it. I'm just saying that if what others have said/have read stands true and speeds are godawful (40mbit between 20 people = useless) then I'll be asking for a refund.

I'd expect something approaching 40mbit each minimum considering there are 20 people on a gigabit box. Sure there are overheads and network congestion, but even when all users are working the box hard, it should be able to push out ~800mbit if it's running raid0, which it should be. The hardware can do it. Whether the network can do it is another thing, but the CSB website said, and still says, "Generally you will achieve speeds up to 30,60,90MB/s peak".

To be honest, for the money I'd be happy with peaks of 30MB/sec. $10/month for 100GB unmetered is really cheap. Looking at the hardware he's using, he's making a decent amount of profit per box, so if it came to it he could put less people on a box and still make a profit. If i had the money to pay 6 months upfront I'd do it myself. :)

Well I might as well add my story to the mix. So i have not installed any torrent system yet(24 hours from now at the most guys! Hang in there!), as everything is still beyond fucked up. All the dependencies were showing up wrong or something along those lines and now that I got that straightened out I tried some http downloads and 1 download achieved 162MB/s!!! Blew my mind, given it was a google server I downloaded it from.

This is a dedicated server let me remind you. I hope to be giving out free slots of this server to TI here shortly to people who need it =)

Originally Posted by Synth

...I tried some http downloads and 1 download achieved 162MB/s!!! Blew my mind, given it was a google server I downloaded it from...

That's faster than a gigabit nic could possibly transfer data at.

What's happened there is that you've downloaded something compressible and the web server has sent it using gzip compression, and it's compressed something large to smaller, but told you the transfer rate as if you'd grabbed a file as big as the uncompressed file. Say you grabbed a 1GB file that compressed to 500MB and took 6 seconds. You'd have been told it went at 160MB/sec or so, when it actually went at 83MB/sec. Still impressive, but it's a speed gigabit internet is capable of, while 160MB/sec isn't.


Or...

You've downloaded something that took a fraction of a second and it's got its calculations wrong.

Good to see their network can handle good speeds though, either way.

Originally Posted by Sawney

That's faster than a gigabit nic could possibly transfer data at.

What's happened there is that you've downloaded something compressible and the web server has sent it using gzip compression, and it's compressed something large to smaller, but told you the transfer rate as if you'd grabbed a file as big as the uncompressed file. Say you grabbed a 1GB file that compressed to 500MB and took 6 seconds. You'd have been told it went at 160MB/sec or so, when it actually went at 83MB/sec. Still impressive, but it's a speed gigabit internet is capable of, while 160MB/sec isn't.


Or...

You've downloaded something that took a fraction of a second and it's got its calculations wrong.

Good to see their network can handle good speeds though, either way.

I agree, this is probable the reason. As there is no way possible that could happen!
I went back and file size was only 24MB and it finished in a fraction of a second. Something went wrong, I'd need a bigger file to confirm this.on.
Also testing for torrenting is underway
The tests show promising.
74mbit upload, and 34mbit download
This was through the Utorrent config file download. So not bad, lets see what private torrents can do now =)

best bet is wgetting a big test file.

http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
http://85.17.128.2/100mb.bin
http://files.ecatel.nl/speedtest/1000mb.bin
http://216.38.63.74/100mb.test
http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/100MB_nonzero.bin
http://download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip
http://67.23.176.253/%7Edomainw/test.iso
http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/cen..._64-LiveCD.iso
http://208.97.141.21/test256



use
wget -O /dev/null to avoid disk IO slowing you down.

Originally Posted by Sawney

best bet is wgetting a big test file.

http://cachefly.cachefly.net/100mb.test
http://85.17.128.2/100mb.bin
http://files.ecatel.nl/speedtest/1000mb.bin
http://216.38.63.74/100mb.test
http://fuller.zen.co.uk/test/100MB_nonzero.bin
http://download.thinkbroadband.com/1GB.zip
http://67.23.176.253/%7Edomainw/test.iso
http://mirror.sov.uk.goscomb.net/cen..._64-LiveCD.iso
http://208.97.141.21/test256



use
wget -O /dev/null to avoid disk IO slowing you down.

Thank you, but all of the test fluxed too much, from a mere 2MB/s to 10MB/s it's just not the same as torrenting, I'll have to wait until I can get Rtorrent working.

even 10MB/sec is too slow for that. I got 60MB/sec+ from a couple of those to a gbit OVH box. I know different datacentres route differently and I'm sure your box is being used more than mine, but it's a little disappointing. Of course torrents work differently so hopefully with a few dozen threads it gets good speeds.

Originally Posted by Sawney

even 10MB/sec is too slow for that. I got 60MB/sec+ from a couple of those to a gbit OVH box. I know different datacentres route differently and I'm sure your box is being used more than mine, but it's a little disappointing. Of course torrents work differently so hopefully with a few dozen threads it gets good speeds.

I actually just inquired about that, apparently they were replacing the switches at the time and had to temporarily reroute my traffic through a shared port. Makes sense I guess.

Got my box an hour ago - but the webUI is down.

Sigh.


Update 1: I was able to log in after a few hours so I started downloading/uploading some torrents - but now Webui is down again.

Update 2: The webui worked, and now it's down again. No FTP access as well at the moment. My patience is running out quite fast but the speeds haven't disappointed. I will continue editing this post.