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Today is the deadline to sign up at directoris.com for that special deal...

That ping is sooo high because the packet travels more than half wasy around the world. First it lands at Singapore then it is sent to the US west coast from there to east coast then to london and then to the datacenter. So the response time should naturally be higher. But in your case since you are in europe it should only be an average of 100-150ms. 250 is too high.
 
Nope. Nothing pings under 200 for me (with this standard packet I use). I think 197 is the fastest I've seen.
 
I got an average of 192 for directoris. BTW, the offer is good till Dec, 2001.

EDIT

Ahh, now it is $35. Why didn't I sign up when it was 14? Now it all makes sense what you were talking about.
 
I used Visual route,

here what i got:

Roundtrip time to www.directoris.com (195.10.228.132) average = 809ms min = 797ms max = 813ms (point to london,UK)

Roundtrip time to www.f2s.com (194.106.56.38) average = 802ms min = 797ms max = 812ms (point to london,UK)

Roundtrip time to www.geocities.com/www.yahoo.com (204.71.200.67) average = 650ms min = 641ms max = 656ms(point to Santa Clara,US)

Roundtrip time to www.tera-byte.com (216.234.161.11) average = 755ms min = 750ms max = 765ms (point to Edmonton,Canada)

Roundtrip time to www.host.sk (195.46.64.12) average = 936ms min = 890ms max = 1453ms (point to Bratislava, Slovakia)

it seems not bad from here :)

I bought directoris.com on 30 July 2001, even though they said the offer closed on 29 July 2001



Jogja - Never Ending Asia
 
Hey, you get the same as me. f2s pings better than Dierectoris and most others but they are _not_ faster. Heck no.

June 30 - was that GMT 0 or your time zone. Just curious. ;)
 
How can I test the speed of discount-hosting.com?

Originally posted by ET
I used Visual route,

here what i got:

Roundtrip time to www.directoris.com (195.10.228.132) average = 809ms min = 797ms max = 813ms (point to london,UK)

Roundtrip time to www.f2s.com (194.106.56.38) average = 802ms min = 797ms max = 812ms (point to london,UK)

Roundtrip time to www.geocities.com/www.yahoo.com (204.71.200.67) average = 650ms min = 641ms max = 656ms(point to Santa Clara,US)

Roundtrip time to www.tera-byte.com (216.234.161.11) average = 755ms min = 750ms max = 765ms (point to Edmonton,Canada)

Roundtrip time to www.host.sk (195.46.64.12) average = 936ms min = 890ms max = 1453ms (point to Bratislava, Slovakia)

it seems not bad from here :)

I bought directoris.com on 30 July 2001, even though they said the offer closed on 29 July 2001



Jogja - Never Ending Asia

How can you test the speed of http://www.discount-hosting.com

I know that they are fast from observation, but how do I get the actually speed number like you have above? Thanks.
 
Either use the DOS prompt as lastactionhero suggested:
ping www.discount-hosting.com (enter)
or use a special tool. The advantage of for instance TJPing is that you can ping consciously for a longer time and keep a log which makes it easier to compare.
Or better still, go to discount-hosting's board and find the URL to a site hosted there and ping that one.

Right now I get (69 bytes):
Pinging www.directoris.com [195.10.228.132]....
30 packets received/30 transmitted : 0% PACKET LOSS
Round Trip Time (in milliseconds) Max/Min/Av: 238/206/220

Pinging www.discount-hosting.com [216.167.124.62]....
30 packets received/30 transmitted : 0% PACKET LOSS
Round Trip Time (in milliseconds) Max/Min/Av: 323/276/293

Pinging www.freewebspace.net [66.33.36.33]....
30 packets received/30 transmitted : 0% PACKET LOSS
Round Trip Time (in milliseconds) Max/Min/Av: 339/307/322
 
Hmm when I review the forum guidelines I get:

There seems to have been a slight problem with the database. Please try again by pressing the refresh button in your browser.

An E-Mail has been dispatched to our Technical Staff, who you can also contact if the problem persists.

We apologise for any inconvenience.

Nice guidelines ;)
 
I'm trying to learn a little PHP, so I made the script below to test the speed of the servers. Here are the results from California...

directoris.com:
Sent 1.00MB in 19.4558 seconds.
Speed: 52.63KB/s (421.06kbps)

f2s.com:
Sent 1.00MB in 314.2722 seconds.
Speed: 3.26KB/s (26.07kbps)

local (running IIS 5):
Sent 1.00MB in 0.7510 seconds.
Speed: 1.33MB/s (10.65mbps)

Can someone else run it in other servers? Just curious...

PHP:
<?php
define('TEST_LENGTH', 1024);

function GetMicroTime()
{ 
  list($usec, $sec) = explode(" ",microtime()); 
  return ((float)$usec + (float)$sec); 
} 

header("Pragma: no-cache");
echo("<!--\n");
$onek = str_repeat('0', 1020) . '<br>';
$start = GetMicroTime();
for ($i = 0; $i < TEST_LENGTH; $i++) {
  echo($onek);
}
$elapsed = GetMicroTime() - $start;
$speed = TEST_LENGTH/$elapsed;
echo("\n-->");
printf("<br>Sent %.2fMB in %.4f seconds.<br>Speed: ", TEST_LENGTH/1024, $elapsed);
if ($speed >= 1024) {
  printf("%.2fMB/s", $speed/1024);
} else {
  printf("%.2fKB/s", $speed);
}
$speed *= 8;
if ($speed >= 1024) {
  printf(" (%.2fmbps)<br>", $speed/1024);
} else {
  printf(" (%.2fkbps)<br>", $speed);
}
?>
 
Wow, pretty need script. Did you wrote it by yourself? Is it copyrighted?
 
icanttype,

So what do I do with your script? Do I just copy and paste that script and make it into a .php file and upload it into my webhost and run that script? Then after I run that script, will it give you that data info about the speed like you just post above. I am planning to test out the speed of http://www.discount-hosting.com


P.S. Do you have an account at directoris? (in order for you to test the speed of directoris like I have seen in your previous post here at this thread).
 
Yes, do it like that. To run, view it like any other page.

I got an account at directoris on the 29th... Still thinking of what I should actually do with it. :)
 
Ha ha ha, me too. I signed up on the last day on June 29, and I still have not upload any files in it yet. :D I will do it tomorrow, I think.

Hope my $14 was put in good use. :D
 
My test results

This is what I got at my http://www.discount-hosting.com


Sent 1.00MB in 9.5892 seconds.
Speed: 106.79KB/s (854.29kbps)

Second repeat test:

Sent 1.00MB in 10.7694 seconds.
Speed: 95.08KB/s (760.67kbps)

-----------------------------------------------------
At Yupapa.com:

Sent 1.00MB in 26.8214 seconds.
Speed: 38.18KB/s (305.43kbps)

Second repeat test:

Sent 1.00MB in 25.0027 seconds.
Speed: 40.96KB/s (327.64kbps)


-----------------------------------------------------

At Directoris.com

Sent 1.00MB in 22.5507 seconds.
Speed: 45.41KB/s (363.27kbps)

Second repeat test:

Sent 1.00MB in 28.8705 seconds.
Speed: 35.47KB/s (283.75kbps)


I am testing the speed using a LAN network system at a university. I did not test it using the 56K modem. I am located in California, USA
 
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Nice speed on discount-hosting... I'll have to remember them next time. But directoris didn't do too badly either. Not too bad for 14 bucks. :) My test was from a 1.5mbps-down ADSL btw.

Oh, I don't suppose we can telnet into directoris can we? Every so often, I just need to make little changes and I'm getting annoyed at FTPing things again and again.
 
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