SpeedTest - see how fast you are to SmugMug

mbrady

Comcast in Sacramento:
Download Speed: 2688 kbps (336 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 257 kbps (32.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

rainforest1155

For me in Germany it's less than half of my possible line speed:
Download Speed: 742 kbps (92.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 263 kbps (32.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Using speedtest.net I tried a local server to estimate my real current bandwith:


Still thanks for alreading speeding up the photo browsing noticeably!

Sebastian

Cammo

Last Result:
Download Speed: 1234 kbps (154.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 203 kbps (25.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

On a 1500/256 connection in Australia

NikonGirl

Here are my results:

Last Result:
Download Speed: 4220 kbps (527.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 691 kbps (86.4 KB/sec transfer rate)

Cameron

Results from the middle of America (Kansas City, MO) via SBC DSL:

Download Speed: 4677 kbps (584.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 561 kbps (70.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

onethumb

rainforest1155 wrote:

For me in Germany it's less than half of my possible line speed:
Download Speed: 742 kbps (92.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 263 kbps (32.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

Using speedtest.net I tried a local server to estimate my real current bandwith:


Still thanks for alreading speeding up the photo browsing noticeably!

Sebastian

At speedtest.net, can you try the San Francisco location and report back?

Don

onethumb

kevin.coppalotti wrote:

Ok thanks Don, this is the result for my ISDN in remote Australia. Remote means anyone more than 5km from the nearest town....
Download Speed: 121 kbps (15.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 100 kbps (12.5 KB/sec transfer rate)


I just tested my smugmug gallery, it takes 23 seconds on average for a picture to appear in 'medium' size while scrolling thru my bird gallery. Last night it averaged 13 seconds.
My Zenfolio Gallery takes an average of 1 second to move from picture to picture and the fastest time was .73 of a second hand timed with a stop watch. That is on the same slow ISDN line described above. That is an incredible performance, and an industry benchmark.

Good to see that your performance to us is roughly in line with ISDN. (ISDN is 128kbps both directions, so you're nearly maxxing it out each way to us).

Sucks that it takes forever to load photos, though. That's almost purely a speed-of-light thing because you're both so far away and have such a slow line. We're working hard on this problem, though, and hope to have a solution soon.

Don

onethumb

NaturalEye wrote:

A result from the UK. I am still seeing very slow speeds on a regular basis (= nothing at all shown 10 seconds after requesting a page). The response at the moment seems to match the speedtest (very good!)

Last Result:
Download Speed: 1871 kbps (233.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 218 kbps (27.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

I'll try and run this when things appear slow. How about making this post a sticky?

Gary

Please try again periodically when browsing feels slow so we can see the variance.

Since our servers and network connections don't vary much in terms of load or performance, this suggests some bottleneck between you and SmugMug (and likely outside of both our control, but we'll try to do what we can) is periodically getting overloaded.

Don

onethumb

bigwebguy wrote:

northern virginia, comcast cable 8Mb

Download Speed: 1938 kbps (242.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 497 kbps (62.1 KB/sec transfer rate)



using speedtest.net
to DC server:


to SF server:

that's over 2 1/2 times as fast as going to SM :cry

to LA server:

I should have mentioned - I'm mostly interested in upload speed with these tests, which seems like it's right in line with what we are looking for here.

Don

onethumb

dmc wrote:

cable modem... on my laptop via wireless router...
Download Speed: 4455 kbps (556.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 430 kbps (53.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Cable modem - direct to my desktop
Download Speed: 4421 kbps (552.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 430 kbps (53.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

My upload seems to be limted and very consistant (and slow)

430 kbps is actually quite fast, relatively speaking. Most people who pay for 768kbps upstream connectivity are lucky if they get anywhere near 500kbps, which is the range you're in. 256kbps - 300kbps is much more the norm, alas.

Don

onethumb

claudermilk wrote:

DSL. D/L is a slow from what it ought to be, U/L is close to where it ought to be.

Last Result:
Download Speed: 537 kbps (67.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 310 kbps (38.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Where are you coming from?

onethumb

David Taylor wrote:

Cable in Gainesville, FL

Download Speed: 3538 kbps (442.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 490 kbps (61.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

mmmm...not nearly as fast as advertised in either direction

Those seem like very nice numbers to me. (I don't know what they promised you, but this is well above average for broadband in the US).

Seamus

Dublin, Ireland:

Download 1083

Upload 197

No problems with speed, the galleries load immediately.
Shay.

NaturalEye

kevin.coppalotti wrote:

Hi Gary, could you tell me how long it takes to move from picture to picture while viewing your gallery in 'medium' size please?

About 2 seconds (this morning!)

Gary

rainforest1155

onethumb wrote:

At speedtest.net, can you try the San Francisco location and report back?

Don

Sure.

Here's SF:


smugmug's test:
Download Speed: 729 kbps (91.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 216 kbps (27 KB/sec transfer rate)

And for comparison again a recent test of the German server:


Note: This time the test should be more reliable, because I minimized the windows now as soon I had started the test. I'm on a Celeron 300Mhz with 160MB Ram here and the heavy speedtest flash was tearing all the CPU.

Sebastian

EDIT: Here's also a traceroute to your server:
Tracing route to pluto.smugmug.net [63.81.134.25]
over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 2 ms 3 ms 2 ms x
2 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms x
3 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms studgate2.uni-leipzig.de [139.18.143.227]
4 1 ms 2 ms 2 ms 139.18.143.254
5 2 ms 2 ms 2 ms xr-lei1-ge8-1.x-win.dfn.de [188.1.50.9]
6 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms cr-leipzig1-ge13-0-0.x-win.dfn.de [188.1.144.105]
7 10 ms 10 ms 10 ms cr-frankfurt1-po10-0.x-win.dfn.de [188.1.18.189]

8 11 ms 10 ms 10 ms 188.1.144.54
9 11 ms 11 ms 10 ms cr02.frf02.pccwbtn.net [80.81.192.50]
10 178 ms 179 ms 182 ms pri.r1-ge0-2-eq-sj.smugmug.com [206.223.117.70]

11 179 ms 181 ms 180 ms pluto.smugmug.com [63.81.134.25]

Trace complete.

ivar

Amsterdam


Germany:


San Francisco:


Smugmug:
Download Speed: 773 kbps (96.6 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 263 kbps (32.9 KB/sec transfer rate)



Amsterdam is quite a bit closer, yet has half the download speed that i have to Germany...interesting.

The speedtest to SF and smugmug seems to be quite close.

happytraveller

latest speed test
Here's one from the UK.

Smugmug speeds have improved slightly, but are still down on what I should expect.

Smugmug Test
Download Speed: 1801 kbps (225.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 367 kbps (45.9 KB/sec transfer rate)






Thanks for being so pro-active on the speed issues.

happytraveller.

davev

I haven't read through all of these, but this is what I got on Sunday morning at 9:30 in St Paul, Mn using a Imac 20" hooked up to Comcast cable internet.

5381 kbps - 672.6 kb/sec
351 kbps - 43.9 kb/sec

claudermilk

Just for grins (heh), I went ahead & retried with the speedtest.net



Seems to be what I'm gonna get and the LA server (50mi for me) is basically identical.

cdhames

test
Dover Delaware

Download Speed: 2610 kbps (326.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 286 kbps (35.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

pat.kane

Oxnard, CA on Adelphia cable

Download Speed: 3660 kbps (457.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 393 kbps (49.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

rutt

RCN cable modem "Megamodem 20"

Smugmug speedtest:

Download Speed: 1708 kbps (213.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1662 kbps (207.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

RCN's speedtest shows 17.5 mb down and 2 mb up, which is more in line with the connection speeds I get to other very well connected sites.

rutt

rutt wrote:

RCN cable modem "Megamodem 20"

Smugmug speedtest:

Download Speed: 1708 kbps (213.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1662 kbps (207.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

RCN's speedtest shows 17.5 mb down and 2 mb up, which is more in line with the connection speeds I get to other very well connected sites.

For example, speekeasy speedtest from San Francisco (I'm in Newton, MA):

Download Speed: 5178 kbps (647.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1832 kbps (229 KB/sec transfer rate)

Speakeasy, NY:

Download Speed: 12095 kbps (1511.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1901 kbps (237.6 KB/sec transfer rate)

Speakeasy, DC:

Download Speed: 15008 kbps (1876 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1881 kbps (235.1 KB/sec transfer rate)

mcgil

From my work in Seattle, WA :

Download Speed: 7838 kbps (979.8 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2223 kbps (277.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

ukaskew

Here in the UK I get the following...(Blueyonder Cable connection)

Download Speed: 1298 kbps (162.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 326 kbps (40.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

and 1 minute later...

Download Speed: 2159 kbps (269.9 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 322 kbps (40.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

FYI I sometimes find SmugMug very slow and unresponsive but generally it's pretty rapid, and away from my home in places like cafes and at work it often doesn't seem to work at all, or is very very slow.

Medium Picture to Medium Picture: Around 4-5 seconds, just tested this.

BeachBill

My previous test was from home. This one is from work:

Download Speed: 9745 kbps (1218.1 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 2312 kbps (289 KB/sec transfer rate)

BigAl

My pet hate:

"Speed Test requires at least version 7 of Flash. Please update your client."

:puke1 :puke

kevin.coppalotti

Actually the point of this test is help identify why smugmug is so slowww.
I did a test tonight on smugmug, pbase and zenfolio, browsing the galleries in medium at smugmug and zenfolio and large at pbase (medium pbase is very small). times taken to move from pic to pic, browsing in a gallery as follows:

my own zenfolio....1 second (that may sound impossible, but that is what I'm getting using the stock standard Zenfolio interface)

Pbase......6 seconds

my own Smugmug..14 seconds
my speed test is just 100k up and down on ISDN.

sirsloop

Last Result:
Download Speed: 3464 kbps (433 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 1223 kbps (152.9 KB/sec transfer rate)

troutstreaming

seattle area on comcast cable

Last Result:
Download Speed: 4228 kbps (528.5 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 347 kbps (43.4 KB/sec transfer rate)