----- Original Message ----- From: "nate" <centos at linuxpowered.net> To: <centos at centos.org> Sent: Friday, February 22, 2008 10:33 PM Subject: RE: [CentOS] How to speed up Rsync transfers > Dan Carl wrote: >> > >> I just ran a test from one local box the another on a 100Mbit link and >> the >> fastest transfer OI got was 10MBytes/second but most were between >> 1MBytes/second and 4MBytes/second. > > Pardon the stupid suggestions but > > - Did the test you run with iperf, was that a bi-directional test, > are you sure you weren't testing your inbound speed at ~700KByte/s > rather than your outbound speed? With most connections, inbound > speed is several times faster than outbound speed. Not stupid question me stupid, I only tested it one way. I guess I just assumed iperf was testing both up and down. I didn't have remote access to the source servers firewall, so I had iperf listening on the distination server. Monday I'll run the test the other way. > - Do you know what sort of bandwidth your "supposed" to have from your > ISP? source server business DSL 1.5m down / 878k up distination server T1 colo at a large ISP. > > nate Sounds like I'll be stuck with the tranfer rate I'm getting. Thanks Nate Dan > > _______________________________________________ > CentOS mailing list > CentOS at centos.org > http://lists.centos.org/mailman/listinfo/centos >