OT'ish: Help?

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/26/2009, 2:07 PM

Hey guys,

I think my website is throttling download speeds off my site, and I was wondering if you could check. Over the last few nights I've uploaded and re-downloaded at various locations this file, and I don't seem to get better than 150KB/s or so even though I'm connecting and able to download at other sites at up to 750KB/s.

Link

It's a sub 5MB WMV file for some clients at a church, and while it's not a big deal on this one, a large file will be drastically slowed down for me.

Please post your connection speed, the rate you're getting, and the state you're in (if you wouldn't mind).

Thank you.

Dave

(oh, and so it's not entirely OT: I did the audio and assembly and final render in Vegas :) ).

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Former user wrote on 6/26/2009, 2:24 PM

I was getting at 1048.5KB/s with only one little hic-up for rebuffer (only lasted a second or two)

I'm on a cable modem and my current downlink speed tested at 5.5M using Speedtest.net

Jim

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/26/2009, 2:31 PM

pretty sure that was the datarate of the video file you were watching.

If you just do a save as you should see your real download time.

with a 5.5M speed, you shouldn't have any hiccups on a 1Mbit video.

Dave

Former user wrote on 6/26/2009, 3:11 PM

You're right. Sorry about that.

Using the right-click, save-as method it appears I averaged around 110KB.

Jim

TheHappyFriar wrote on 6/26/2009, 4:01 PM

between 8-150, ~110 most of the time. ~150 is the max I normally get, sometimes I get ~200, but rare.

right now ~2.5mbs download. Looks like that storm last night took 500kbs away! :(

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/26/2009, 10:09 PM

Thanks for your help guys, turns out it was a migration to a new server with a limit of 300KB/s (not that anyone is even getting that).

So I'm a little irritated.

Dave

goshep wrote on 6/26/2009, 10:22 PM

Although you didn't ask for feedback on the video itself, I just wanted to say that was great and I really liked it! Great idea and well executed!

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/26/2009, 10:42 PM

Thanks goshep - I probably put about 25 hours into that 42 second spot over the last couple of weeks in the evenings (my creative time).

I really only spoofed those HP commercials, but it's a fun project to do, and you get to learn a bit about the motion tracking tools in AE (haven't had a need to use mocha yet, but I'm trying to figure one out :) ).

Dave

NickHope wrote on 6/27/2009, 12:02 AM

I got 50K building to 95K here in Bangkok. Speed test from a US server (Dallas) is 1.7M.

Nice video btw.

apit34356 wrote on 6/27/2009, 2:28 AM

Dave, 5:20am sat, average download speed thru WIFI connection was 250-270K,................. nice homework project. ;-) RED could handle some of the3D effects with the ball..... or ..... just use R11 for 3D objects or modo.

FrigidNDEditing wrote on 6/28/2009, 12:35 AM

ya,

I thought about doing 3D objects, but honestly, I wasn't even contracted for as many hours as I worked in this making all the shadows etc... to add to the reality. I just couldn't stand the look of all that stuff being utterly unrealistic... now it's more in the lines of mostly un-realistic :P

Dave