Hi,
I'm new here - you may notice from my post count

Are any of your guys from the UK and have a server(s) with SM? Mainly, the question is what is connectivity like? I assume its pretty fast but just checking really..

Thanks

Adam

Very fast and reliable. A lot better than aventuremedia/host servers at ev1

It's fine, not had any issues with speed at all. V. happy with the serive.

Cool thanks..

Do I know you from somewhere Paul??

im in essex and its all fine for me

It's great, average ping 115-130ms depending on transit.

Seems rather high to me my other US servers average around 80/90ms.

Doesn't really matter tho there is very little difference and the other features provided by SM make up for it

I get around 120-125ms

Andrew

Ex-aventuremedia client - I used them for backup (2003), I took down their servers and forums just before I left, used a couple hundred gig of bandwidth over my allowance by using wget from a cron and ftp'd a load of warez to someone else's account via php, bad security on their boxen back then

I take it your 80-90ms boxen are east-coast? (I get around that to the east coast), but since the planet is on t'other it takes a bit longer for packets to get there.

Edit: possibly know me from pipexsupport too, but I left pipex because their support was too slow, then after I cancelled they billed me for another full year of access

Average 115ms - in TX2

Paul,
Thought so - Didn't know you were at PS though
Its a small world!
Never even knew you left aventure... you just disappeared from the forums one day...

I expect the other servers are west coast so I'm not surprised although as I said SM sound much better than my previous providers (although being worse them them would be very hard)

Adam

Thats how it looks from here, and i am happy even with that
Other servers i used to run were ~700ms



Keep up the mood

Well I've got the server now and it seems very nice and fast.

So I'm happy at the moment (cept for a problem with Plesk - whcih I will post elesewhere in case anybody has an ideas).

Speeds good for me here on Blueyonder in London, 115ms.

Paul, West Coast would be about 180-200ms for you, East Coast would be 80-90.

It was early in the morning when I made that post

70-80 to east-coast, 120-130 to TP

You're definitely lucky.
From here in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil:

Pinging 67.19.65.4 with 32 bytes of data:

Reply from 67.19.65.4: bytes=32 time=392ms TTL=114
Reply from 67.19.65.4: bytes=32 time=391ms TTL=114
Reply from 67.19.65.4: bytes=32 time=389ms TTL=114
Reply from 67.19.65.4: bytes=32 time=392ms TTL=114
Reply from 67.19.65.4: bytes=32 time=387ms TTL=114
Reply from 67.19.65.4: bytes=32 time=391ms TTL=114
Reply from 67.19.65.4: bytes=32 time=399ms TTL=114
Reply from 67.19.65.4: bytes=32 time=392ms TTL=114

Ping statistics for 67.19.65.4:
Packets: Sent = 8, Received = 8, Lost = 0 (0% loss),
Approximate round trip times in milli-seconds:
Minimum = 387ms, Maximum = 399ms, Average = 391ms

Note: the real average is 240-260ms, but don't know why today this is creepy coming at 400