Re: Comcast Enterprise Fiber Slow Connection Problem from TW Telecom

2014-10-31 Thread Pedro Cavaca
On 31 October 2014 18:32, Zachary Frederick zcfreder...@gmail.com wrote: We have been having a problem receiving software releases from our developer. The releases are typically around 1G in size. The developer’s connection is a 100m metro fiber with TW Telecom, our connection is a 25m

Re: Comcast Enterprise Fiber Slow Connection Problem from TW Telecom

2014-10-31 Thread John Neiberger
With a max bandwidth of 25 Mbps and a 40ms RTT, the max is more like 14MB/s or 1.75 Mbps. https://www.switch.ch/network/tools/tcp_throughput/index.html?mss=1460rtt=80loss=1e-06bw=25rtt2=35win=64Calculate=Calculate But that's only if either endpoint is stuck at a 64 KB receive window. A quick

Re: Comcast Enterprise Fiber Slow Connection Problem from TW Telecom

2014-10-31 Thread Zachary Frederick
I apologize I should have said it starts out about 3 meg max and slows to about 400kpbs for most of the transfer. On Oct 31, 2014, at 3:27 PM, John Neiberger jneiber...@gmail.com wrote: With a max bandwidth of 25 Mbps and a 40ms RTT, the max is more like 14MB/s or 1.75 Mbps.

Re: Comcast Enterprise Fiber Slow Connection Problem from TW Telecom

2014-10-31 Thread John Neiberger
Sounds like a combination of packet loss and small TCP receive windows. If you can, grab a packet capture and make sure to get the TCP setup. That should show you what's happening under the hood. Also, I should mention that I totally hosed the units in my first reply. :) That's what I get for

Re: Comcast Enterprise Fiber Slow Connection Problem from TW Telecom

2014-10-31 Thread Jared Mauch
Recommendations: 1) Use iperf in TCP mode to test the performance 2) use iperf in UDP mode to test the performance This is the best way to quickly triage the issue and determine if it's actual bandwidth issue or something else. It's quite common for