From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1MRraa-0006Wx-JH for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:51:21 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 04911E0361; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:51:19 +0000 (UTC) Received: from an-out-0708.google.com (an-out-0708.google.com [209.85.132.247]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DA3DCE0361 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 17:51:18 +0000 (UTC) Received: by an-out-0708.google.com with SMTP id d40so1385533and.1 for ; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:51:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=domainkey-signature:mime-version:received:in-reply-to:references :date:message-id:subject:from:to:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=2zzzQa1rE5XMQkpnC1FwKE+53G52XaV3nIwHGzfGGRw=; b=td6eHk+SX6ymIvRDYXKuD/k+U8eVK4rQ2hTpk62jMKS2bL7EIR/ju9UseTkuoprF3r OCLJhoZT0lXlTJBCzpk8ynTkC271lZoT33d3rkTnGHmFFAUWBjnmfJM2kAUj/70BF+kw j9Xb3aEM3wFZhX8tIswtUI4JxwFeOe/JP9ZqI= DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; c=nofws; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=mime-version:in-reply-to:references:date:message-id:subject:from:to :content-type:content-transfer-encoding; b=w8g7QpZWSKjlpz8vNnlSPqCMjmUVn5NxiJzUJIA9ZYiddsD+N8VDFMW2peCY72jHaH QIKxTSQLR2gzW/nrHP5rboM7n00atviFmB/8+Bn9vnUR+zMUajOTJP5kIycvXEMULM// pW21L23wPjITdrU1LmLXmkl9zGl7yyssM7zN8= Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Received: by 10.100.132.14 with SMTP id f14mr1912813and.79.1247853078584; Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:51:18 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <49bf44f10907170948n4fc1f2b7ida35fe79b1d506a4@mail.gmail.com> References: <49bf44f10907170948n4fc1f2b7ida35fe79b1d506a4@mail.gmail.com> Date: Fri, 17 Jul 2009 10:51:18 -0700 Message-ID: <854dca5c0907171051x3f8ef986oc9caa8ff53336e23@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] 10, 100, or 1000mbps uplink? From: Kyle Bader To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: c42a9c82-5371-4ac0-9a17-cb39d2d4d504 X-Archives-Hash: afd3f1ed79c7f9fa31939db5871afabd > I'm about to sign up for a new remote dedicated system and I'm > wondering if I should spring for the 100mbps or 1000mbps uplink > upgrades from 10mbps? =C2=A0Is there a test I can run to find out? =C2=A0= I'm > running a lightweight website with maybe 300-400 visitors/day. I wouldn't think 10mbps would be a problem unless you are serving lots of files for downloads. You can see real time throughput with iptraf or iftop or setup some netfilter rules to log bandwidth statistics if you want to gauge your usage exactly. -- Kyle