Hi,
I know about you not giving out the full 100mbps until I push 8mbits plus, thats fine, but what i would like to know is, Will you automatically switch me over or will i have to add a support ticket for this. Cause i seem to b pushing "TOTAL Max: 11.29 Mbits/s " in a spike. Correct me if i am wrong but is that not the max i can get on the current 10mbit connection?

You need to create a ticket to upgrade to 100Mbit. The spike figures can be a bit shaky simetimes.

In Orbit, there is a special ticket which you can request for a 10mbps to 100mbps port upgrade. There is a $10/mth fees and you do not need the justification to upgrade.

If they are spikes which only last for a short period of time, then you do not need to worry about it. If however it is sustained over a period of time then you need to probably upgrade but note that it would mean that you be using more bandwidth and thus more possibility to over-exceed the free 1000gb bandwidth.

Question. I've been wondering for sometime but haven't asked for some reason.

10mbps = 10mbps up and 10mbps down, or 10mbps total (5mbps both ways?) .. If both are 10mbps, then that's why you can see 11mbps totals, up+down.

Same for 100mbps.

IIRC the default setup for the switch ports and for the NIC's is FDX (full duplex), so they have a theoretical throughput of 10mbit up and 10mbit down at the same time (total 20mbit)

Yea 10 Mbit out and 10 Mbit in. The graph should have seperate lines for in/out though.

Sorry, I wrote it wrong, what i meant to say was, i have a server with the 100mbps link and no the standard 10mbps and wanted to know if they switched it to full speed themselves. But and this is the disappointing part, i added a ticket to request the switch over to use the full 100mbps but all they said was
"(sstaffel-04/16/04-16:22):
I can verify that you are on a 100mbps link"
however i am still not getting my full 100mbps

I believe you are at full speed right now. I had the 100mbps upgrade once and found that there is no real difference. Even on my home network, I upgrade from a 10mbps to a 100mbps router and did not feel any difference although everything was set at full duplex.

You would probably require a huge number of simultaneous connections to take advantage the greater extend of the 100mbps port. It would depend on the limitation of the system hardware and the fastest speed you will ever get on a single connection would be the speed of the weakness link between you and your server.

Personally I wouldn't want to push anywhere near 3mbps sustained or else my pocket will burn.

You'd have to be pushing a solid 12.5 megabytes a second to fully utilization a 100mbps port. 8mbps is a solid 1 megabyte a second. Unless you have a really large site, its pretty hard to keep that kind of traffic sustained.