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Originally Posted by Chrysalis
some transits will cap transatlantic traffic I have seen it repeatedly.
cogent used to cap at 2mbit but now I think they cap at 5mbit.
level3 cap at 5mbit.
opentransit is at least 10mbit and is the best transatlantic performance I have seen.
telia and abovenet and others I dont know as I got no routes for servers going over that transit.
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That's completely untrue. Transit providers don't cap and don't care about bandwidth usage, more the better from their point of view.
EDIT:
http://www.dslreports.com/speedtests...net/1141036363
dslreports.com speed test result on 2006-02-27 05:32:43 EST:
7227 / 481
Your download speed : 7227 kbps or 903.4 KB/sec.
Your upload speed : 481 kbps or 60.1 KB/sec.
Tracing route to speedtest.cogeco.net [24.226.1.130]
over a maximum of 30 hops:
1 1 ms 1 ms 1 ms home.router [192.168.11.1]
2 * * * Request timed out.
3 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms gr1-stbc-rtr1.homechoice.co.uk [81.1.112.62]
4 9 ms 6 ms 7 ms 81-1-67-48.homechoice.co.uk [81.1.67.48]
5 8 ms 7 ms 7 ms 81-1-67-16.homechoice.co.uk [81.1.67.16]
6 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms 195.50.116.197
7 7 ms 7 ms 7 ms so-1-2-0.gar2.London1.Level3.net [212.113.0.118]
8 45 ms 7 ms 7 ms ae-0-56.bbr2.London1.Level3.net [4.68.116.162]
9 93 ms 93 ms 92 ms ae-0-0.bbr2.Chicago1.Level3.net [64.159.1.34]
10 96 ms 92 ms 93 ms ae-12-51.car2.Chicago1.Level3.net [4.68.101.3]
11 94 ms 93 ms 93 ms 4.79.64.14
12 104 ms 105 ms 105 ms rc2sh-pos13-0.mt.shawcable.net [66.163.77.13]
13 105 ms 105 ms 107 ms ra2sh-ge4-1.mt.shawcable.net [66.163.66.54]
14 105 ms 106 ms 106 ms rx0sh-cogeco-1.mt.bigpipeinc.com [66.244.255.2]
15 107 ms 107 ms 106 ms 24.226.0.102
16 107 ms 106 ms 109 ms cgowave-0-206.cgocable.net [24.226.0.206]
17 106 ms 106 ms 106 ms speedtest.cogeco.net [24.226.1.130]