Cable connection, how much users can it handle?

jsbush · Post by **jsbush** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 8:47 am

I want to setup a web server on my cable connection. It's 2mbps down and 320kbps up. I know the upload speed counts here, just woundering how many users could be on at once without seeing a tremendous slow down.

I put up a test page, http://24.226.196.100/test so you can see how fast it is, but of course there isn't anyone on it.

2HY · Post by **2HY** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 9:14 am

Page took about 8 seconds to load. Pretty slow... 320kbps up is pretty low bandwidth to run a web server.

I'm on 2mb/384kb cable. Usually can only handle 2 users at a time on my IRC Fileserv.

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 4:02 pm

Depending on what your serving, 1-3 users max. Note that most cable providers don't allow servers of any kind.

HalfLifer · Post by **HalfLifer** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 4:35 pm

Loaded up fast for me. You running Windows 2000?

jsbush · Post by **jsbush** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 4:49 pm

I'm running on that computer windows NT 4.0. I'm going to be upgrading it to a Athlong 600-700mhz with 256megs of ram. I'll run win2k on it to, the current computer is a p120mhz with 128megs of ram.

1-3 users huh, that's not much.

Do you know if you can stick two cable connections together? that would give me 80kb/sec. I don't think you can cus you would have two ips.

glc1 · Post by **glc1** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 5:22 pm

Originally posted by jsbush:
Do you know if you can stick two cable connections together? that would give me 80kb/sec. I don't think you can cus you would have two ips.

You need expensive hardware such as a Cisco router to successfuly bind two connections. Cheaper software solutions, such as those available from surfdoubler.com and midpoint.com, only allow limited load balancing and would not allow you to use both connections on a single process (eg. uploading or downloading a single file).

[ 02-24-2001: Message edited by: glc1 ]

Kip Patterson · Post by **Kip Patterson** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 6:02 pm

I don't know what your situation in Canada is, but in the US running a server on a cable modem is a violation of the terms of service.

Yesterday, it became a much more serious issue. We have a law called the Millenium Copyright Act, or something like that, which requires ISP's to police their users. With the legal status of Napster becoming clearer, the RIAA served notice on 20 major ISP's, including Time Warner, directing them to shut all the sites using Napigator. Gnutella and other similar techniques can't be far behind. My concern is that you may be putting a lot of effort into something that in the next six months or so will be absolutely banned.

With best regards,

Kip Patterson

Storm90 · Post by **Storm90** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 6:10 pm

First of all as kip just stated. If what he says goes threw you will be out. Thats only if home services doesn't catch you frist. Then you will still be out. It is Illegal to run a server.

HalfLifer · Post by **HalfLifer** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 6:12 pm

My cousin had an FTP up, but the transfer was broken, possibly by @home, but hes been running it ever since he has a firewall up.

jsbush · Post by **jsbush** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 8:28 pm

If I get a warning I'll take it down, until then, I'm gonna run it.

Aaladar · Post by **Aaladar** » Sat Feb 24, 2001 8:53 pm

Here's a tracert I did to your server. I couldn't ping you because of your firewall.

Tracing route to 196-100.lr.cgocable.ca [24.226.196.100]

over a maximum of 30 hops:

1 41 ms <10 ms <10 ms 10.74.88.1

2 14 ms 27 ms 14 ms msp-hub3-ubr-a-pos-1-0.mn.rr.com [24.26.161.81]

3 13 ms 28 ms 14 ms 24.26.161.86

4 <10 ms 14 ms 27 ms msp-hub1-gsr-a-pos1-1.mn.rr.com [24.26.161.9]

5 14 ms 14 ms 13 ms msp-mhe-gsr-a-pos5-0.mn.mediaone.net [24.26.161.65]

6 13 ms 14 ms 28 ms msp-mhe-gsr-b-pos-1-0.mn.mediaone.net [24.31.1.2]

7 27 ms 14 ms 27 ms nic-31-c2-030.mn.mediaone.net [24.31.2.30]

8 13 ms 28 ms 55 ms 12.125.74.29

9 28 ms 68 ms 14 ms gbr6-p80.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.123.24.238]

10 28 ms 27 ms 69 ms gbr4-p90.sl9mo.ip.att.net [12.122.5.190]

11 69 ms 27 ms 42 ms gbr3-p40.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.2.205]

12 27 ms 42 ms 27 ms gbr1-p100.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.122.1.154]

13 41 ms 97 ms 41 ms gr2-p340.cgcil.ip.att.net [12.123.5.130]

14 55 ms 55 ms 55 ms if-9-0-0.bb1.Chicago2.Teleglobe.net [207.45.193.13]

15 83 ms 109 ms 55 ms if-0-0.core1.Chicago3.Teleglobe.net [207.45.222.213]

16 83 ms 55 ms 55 ms if-8-1.core1.NewYork.Teleglobe.net [207.45.222.209]

17 69 ms 55 ms 68 ms if-7-2.core1.Montreal.Teleglobe.net [64.86.80.25]

18 68 ms 55 ms 69 ms if-9-0-0.bb4.Montreal.Teleglobe.net [207.45.221.170]

19 * * * Request timed out.

20 * * * Request timed out.