I’m using contabo and the VPS I got is advertised as 1 Gigabit. When I do a speedtest or use iperf3 to connect to public servers I get pretty close to 1 Gigabit. But from my residential IP the speed drops down to 100-250 Mbit/s. My home internet connection can handle 500 Mbit just fine.

I’m looking for a new hoster with a better network connection. What real world speeds do you get with your server?

  • @TCB13@lemmy.worldEnglish
    5•9 months ago

    But from my residential IP the speed drops down to 100-250 Mbit/s. My home internet connection can handle 500 Mbit just fine.

    Maybe the issue is that your ISP has bad peering to some networks including the one where your VPS is?

    • hauiEnglish
      1•9 months ago

      In that case it might be possible to reroute the connection somehow. If another big player has a better connection, someone might use that as proxy. No idea if that really works but it might.

      • @Inktvip@lemm.eeEnglish
        2•9 months ago

        There’s a couple SD-WAN solutions out there that you can do this with. Essentially route all your traffic through one or more VPSes while still keeping things like port forwards and STUN working properly.

        I’ve had to use it to enable proper video feeds to and from people that had Spectrum as their ISP.

        • hauiEnglish
          1•9 months ago

          Very interesting! Thank you so much for chiming in. Always glad to have pros in here.