Topic: Website bandwidth Woes

[cmwi96]

I host my family website on an SME server at home. The connection is DSL 600k down 200k up. All was fine until my brother put some videos on the site and posted to his yahoo group for people to check it out. The server handles this fine but the DSL connection get saturated and the server becomes unavailable. Does any one have suggestions (other than remove the videos...which I've done for the time being). For those witha keen eye, you may have seen a related post to which I have recieved 0 replies.
Thanks,
Chris

[mophilly]

You have nailed the problem exactly when you state

The connection is DSL 600k down and 200k up.

200k upload is very slow relative to video streams and other large files. Chances are you aren't getting 200k bps, even if the ISP claims that rate. More likely is an actual rate of 160 or even 130. IMHO, you need at least ten times that rate to successfully transfer video. More experienced people on this forum may be able to offer better estimates.

The only solution is to purchase greater bandwidth or move your website to a hosting service that has better service plans that include higher throughput up and down.

hth,

[cmwi96]

actually the rate I'm supposed to be getting is 300 or more... 200 IS the actuall upload I'm getting. In anycase I'm not trying to stream the video, just make available for download. when you have a few hundred people trying to download 5 meg in a not to spread out amount if time it really doesn't take long to fill up 200k. what I'd like to do is limit the bandwidth by the virtual host (mod_throttle) or perhaps for apache all together (this is less desireable). as for the mor bandwidth I'm working on that, but there seem to be some line quality issues that are preventing this.

[mophilly]

Throttling the upload rate is a good idea. Last year I had several months of "line quality" issues that had a similar impact.

The power at the street was "dirty" and subject to brown out, the cable modem was is an "almost failed" state for a while, and the node off of which I hang was in poor condition. I got to know the people at the cable and power companies far too well. The upshot was the power company replaced the transformer on the trunk line with one of twice the capacity of the former, I replaced the cable modem, and ISP upped the capacity on the node.

Performance is better but througput limitations still cause saturation symptoms from time to time.

Good luck.

[hanscees]

I host my family website on an SME server at home. The connection is DSL 600k down 200k up. All was fine until my brother put some videos on the site and posted to his yahoo group for people to check it out. The server handles this fine but the DSL connection get saturated and the server becomes unavailable. Does any one have suggestions (other than remove the videos...which I've done for the time being). For those witha keen eye, you may have seen a related post to which I have recieved 0 replies.
Thanks,
Chris

use my script here:
http://web.inter.nl.net/users/hanscees/sme7/wondershaperbeefedup.html

success.

Hans-Cees