Ping Times

[Ian]

I was wondering if I could ask a quick favour from any techie minded members, as I'm looking at upgrading the current webserver and I'm debating a couple of server locations .

If you could post your average ping times to the following domains, that would be a huge help - as I can see which location works out fastest for most people:

speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com
speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com

If you could also post your State (if from USA) or Country, that would be a big help.

From the UK, my results are:

speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com - 138ms
speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com - 101ms

 

[ModemHead]

From North Carolina, USA:

speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com - 80ms
speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com - 68ms

 

[(*steve*)]

speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com 311ms
speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com 348ms
www.electronicspoint.com 312ms

from home

speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com 260ms
speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com 293ms
www.electronicspoint.com 254ms

from Australia (on two heavily loaded connections). If I get something substantially different when the links are less used I'll update this

 

[CocaCola]

Gurnee, IL USA

speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com 47ms
speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com 40ms

 

[Ian]

Thanks guys, that's a big help .

If there are any more members from the West Coast USA, Aus/NZ or Europe, I'd be particularly interested in ping results.

 

[Harald Kapp]

From Germany via DSL 6000kB/s:
speedtest.dal01.softlayer.com ->150 ms (average)
speedtest.wdc01.softlayer.com -> 105 ms (average)
electronicspoint.com -> 133ms

 

[Ian]

Thanks Harald!