We are testing two three different delivery methods for our upcoming site. I'm not in Thailand right now and would like if some of you could help test our three methods with these files below. If you could reply with the average speed, your ISP, your connection speed (package) and your location that would help us a lot.

Test one

http://vdone.taketake.com/bigfile.zip

Test two

http://media.taketake.com/bigfile.zip

Test three

http://media.taketake.in.th/bigfile.zip

Which one is the fastest?

Thanks guys

Edited November 4, 200916 yr by kudroz

The first one:

139.09 kbps average

Second one:

124.39

Third one:

153.13

Maxnet premier 4M/1M, Pattaya.

BUT, for a proper test on relatively fast internet you'd need a bigger testfile! The download started at 50 kbps, speeding up to 350 kbps and then finished!

Normally my downloads speed up to my max line speed of 440 kBps.

The last server seemed to speed up a tad faster, but on a small file like that it might be coincidence...

And on top of it, they are all hosted on the same Amazon servers, so why should there be a speed difference!

Hi

Same here first one best but file is to small, i start with 50 and finish with 150

Test #1: 204 KB/s

Test #2: 171 KB/s

Test #3: 209 KB/s

All three servers offer good speeds, however 1 & 3 seem to be the fastest. Server 2 averages out at 170 KB/s (+/-5).

From Chiangmai University: 1Gbps backbone, ~76Mbps link to Bangkok. 3 samples on each server. In KBps (Kilo Bytes per second)

Server 1: 292.29 KB/s 34.1 KB/s 35.89 KB/s added a 4th test run on this server > 40.12 KB/s

Server 2: 19.3 KB/s 18.27 KB/s 19.2 KB/s

Server 3: 56.83 KB/s 24.95 KB/s 24.36 KB/s

Server 1, first test appears to be an anomaly though that kind of speed and greater is not uncommon on my connection.

And on top of it, they are all hosted on the same Amazon servers, so why should there be a speed difference!

Test 1 is served from Edgecast CDN that pulls the file from origin from Cloudfront (Amazon)

Test 2 is served from Cotendo CDN that pulls the file from origin from Cloudfront (Amazon)

Test 3 is served directly from Cloudfront (Amazon)

While they all pull the files from Amazon, they are cached over the CDNs and served from the CDN cache servers, we're trying to determine which one works best from Thailand

On TT&T Premier 2Mb/s Hua Hin, average download speeds are as follows:

File 1: 107 kb/s

File 2: 170 kb/s

File 3: 157 kb/s

I really appreciate all the help. I'm putting larger files on the servers so the tests should be more accurate.

New 100MB test files

Test 1 (Edgecast CDN)

http://vdone.taketake.com/100MB.zip

Test 2 (Cotendo CDN)

http://media.taketake.com/100MB.zip

Test 3 (Cloudfront CDN)

http://media.taketake.in.th/100MB.zip

I believe that all of these CDNs have servers in Hong Kong where the files should be served from to Thailand. I know Cotendo will have servers in Singapore next month which should speed up downloads from Thailand.

Test 1 (Edgecast CDN)

- Start: 13:47 pm; Finish: 13:57

- variable speed; peak: 214KB/s; average: 165KB/s

- starts off at 60KB/s climbs to 190KB/s then drops to 150's, climbs to 200+ again...

Test 2 (Cotendo CDN)

- Start: 13:58 pm; Finish: 14:07

- constant speed; peak: 184KB/s; average: 181KB/s

- starts off at 110KB/s, climbs to 180KB/s and stays there (+/-5).

Test 3 (Cloudfront CDN)

- Start: 14:08 pm; Finish: 14:26

- variable speed; peak: 210KB/s; average: N/A, too much variation

- starts off at 108KB/s, climbs to 140KB/s then drops below 100 (to as low as 30KB/s)

Note: My 2Mbit connection during work hours has been less than stellar lately. This could explain the variable speeds seen in Test 1 & 3.

Edited November 4, 200916 yr by Supernova

Supernova, a big thanks for the tests! Seems like all of the delivery methods are doing fairly well on your connection.