Ummm....

Thing is that I am seeing the server as the bottle neck - I have a 10MB connection so I sphould be able to get somewhere near that D/L from the server is the states (assuming the trans-pond link is OK).

I've just done 3 D/L (local) speeds and I get:

1,

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Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:00:35 UTC
1st 128K took 15 ms = 8738133 Bytes/sec = approx 72701 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec
4th 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec


2,

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Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:00:49 UTC
1st 128K took 125 ms = 1048576 Bytes/sec = approx 8724 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 125 ms = 1048576 Bytes/sec = approx 8724 kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 110 ms = 1191564 Bytes/sec = approx 9914 kbits/sec
4th 128K took 140 ms = 936229 Bytes/sec = approx 7789 kbits/sec


3,

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Fri, 9 Dec 2005 14:02:04 UTC
1st 128K took 16 ms = 8192000 Bytes/sec = approx 68157 kbits/sec
2nd 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec
3rd 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec
4th 128K took 0 ms = Infinity Bytes/sec = approx Infinity kbits/sec



4, tried to tracert:
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C:\>tracert nacraeurope.com

Tracing route to nacraeurope.com [212.203.14.37]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 6 ms 8 ms 7 ms 10.251.79.254
2 6 ms 8 ms 9 ms lutn-t2cam1-b-v116.inet.ntl.com [80.4.118.153]
3 7 ms 8 ms 8 ms lutn-t2core-b-ge-wan62.inet.ntl.com [213.107.47.
205]
4 42 ms 10 ms 10 ms nth-bb-b-so-310-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.174.65]

5 9 ms 12 ms 9 ms pop-bb-a-so-100-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.14]

6 9 ms 10 ms 9 ms pop-bb-b-ae0-0.inet.ntl.com [213.105.172.77]
7 17 ms 24 ms 19 ms amst-ic-1-as0-0.inet.ntl.com [62.253.188.94]
8 19 ms 19 ms 27 ms bb2-ge-2-0-0.amsix-telecity.home.nl [195.69.144.
103]
9 30 ms 19 ms 19 ms snoek.eatserver.nl [212.203.14.37]

Trace complete.

C:\>ping www.nacraeurope.com

Pinging www.nacraeurope.com [212.203.14.37] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.203.14.37: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=57
Request timed out.
Reply from 212.203.14.37: bytes=32 time=20ms TTL=57
Reply from 212.203.14.37: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 212.203.14.37:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 3, Lost = 1 (25% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 20ms, Average = 19ms

C:\>ping www.nacraeurope.com

Pinging www.nacraeurope.com [212.203.14.37] with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 212.203.14.37: bytes=32 time=18ms TTL=57
Reply from 212.203.14.37: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=57
Reply from 212.203.14.37: bytes=32 time=19ms TTL=57
Reply from 212.203.14.37: bytes=32 time=23ms TTL=57

Ping statistics for 212.203.14.37:
Packets: Sent = 4, Received = 4, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 18ms, Maximum = 23ms, Average = 19ms

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