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Old 07-19-2008, 11:32 PM  
brandonstills
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Why does bandwidth to so many hosting companies suck so much?

The only hosting companies that I can max out my bandwidth to are The Planet / Host Gator and Soft Layer.

I've gone through Reliable Hosting, Webair, and Caro and got rid of them shortly after because I could only download and upload to them at a small fraction of my bandwidth.

I'm uploading to Webair right now for a client and it's only going at a measly 50 KB/s. I can upload at slightly over 200 KB/s with my connection to Soft Layer and The Planet.

What gives?

I have Time Warner Cable (business class cable) in Chatsworth. 15 Mbps down / 2 Mbps up. Speakeasy speed tests all the way to the East Coast get me around 12 Mbps down and 1.2 Mbps up and yet why can't I transfer to/from these hosting companies at even close to that?
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