I have a collocated server the one is running with the latest stable FreeBSD 8.1 amd64 on a DELL PowerEdge 2900II with Broadcom Nextreme II BCM5708 network cards.
People that use to download files from the server start to notice that the download speed of the files was slower, I later make some tests and this was true, the server in theory is attached to a 100mbps port and from other servers with the same capability I can only download at max rates of 400K.
I contact the data center make make some tests and told me that this issue was from my side, from their internal network the file downloads at excellent speeds (12MB/s) the only problem exists only when downloading the file from external networks.
This issue extended for days, they told me that did exhaustive tests and that can confirm that was an issue from my side.
One of the test they made was to boot the server with a knoppix cd live they configured the network put a testfile for download, and the download speeds for the external network now where much better than when running from the OS on the server, from their internal lan the speeds where the same but from the internet a notable difference was appreciated.
later the server was rebooted again and loaded the installed OS (FredBSD 8.1) but again like if where magic the speeds rates now where only good from the internal network rather than the outside network.
I have already checked the server, make some ssh tunnels through another server hosted on the same datacenter and got good speeds, the only problem that i notice is that there is something limiting the outgoing bandwidth since internally the speeds are excellent i can not understand what else could be wrong.
Any suggestions for fixing this ?
any recommendations ?
thanks in advance.
People that use to download files from the server start to notice that the download speed of the files was slower, I later make some tests and this was true, the server in theory is attached to a 100mbps port and from other servers with the same capability I can only download at max rates of 400K.
I contact the data center make make some tests and told me that this issue was from my side, from their internal network the file downloads at excellent speeds (12MB/s) the only problem exists only when downloading the file from external networks.
This issue extended for days, they told me that did exhaustive tests and that can confirm that was an issue from my side.
One of the test they made was to boot the server with a knoppix cd live they configured the network put a testfile for download, and the download speeds for the external network now where much better than when running from the OS on the server, from their internal lan the speeds where the same but from the internet a notable difference was appreciated.
later the server was rebooted again and loaded the installed OS (FredBSD 8.1) but again like if where magic the speeds rates now where only good from the internal network rather than the outside network.
I have already checked the server, make some ssh tunnels through another server hosted on the same datacenter and got good speeds, the only problem that i notice is that there is something limiting the outgoing bandwidth since internally the speeds are excellent i can not understand what else could be wrong.
Any suggestions for fixing this ?
any recommendations ?
thanks in advance.