Hi, I have a server in Mountain View and i am doing a speedtest with a server in Oregon. I see that the upload/download BW that i am getting is low -- around 10.0Mbps and 5.0Mbps. gkent@ubuntu:~/ics$ speedtest-cli --server 4082 Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Testing from Comcast Cable (50.250.251.210)... Hosted by Eastern Oregon Net, Inc. (La Grande, OR) [913.33 km]: 120.959 ms Testing download speed........................................ Download: 5.08 Mbits/s Testing upload speed.................................................. Upload: 10.89 Mbits/s When i check my connectivity with a server in NYC, its much better, though the server is much further away. gkent@ubuntu:~/ics$ speedtest-cli --server 2947 Retrieving speedtest.net configuration... Retrieving speedtest.net server list... Testing from Comcast Cable (50.250.251.210)... Hosted by Atlantic Metro (New York City, NY) [4129.02 km]: 307.568 ms Testing download speed........................................ Download: 38.52 Mbits/s Testing upload speed.................................................. Upload: 10.62 Mbits/s I am trying to understand why this is so? I would wager that NYC being further away would give me a worse throughput than OR, but the speedtest tells me otherwise. The 2nd and more puzzling observation is that while OR is giving a download of around 5.08Mbps, it will improve and become much better later in the day. There are times when i see it going up as high as 48Mbps. Sometimes while a transfer is in progress i see that my download suddenly goes down from 48Mbps to 2Mbps. Can somebody here tell me why such a drastic fluctuation is seen? Thanks, Glen