Texture Rezzing Speed and Optimum Bandwidth

[Ayesha Askham]

I'm curious to know what various people use to determine their optimum bandwidth for SL on the current server versions.

[Claireschen Hesten]

the support team for phoenix viewer inworld group often recommend going to http://www.speedtest.net and setting bandwidth to 80% of download speed up to a max of i think 1500mb

[Rolig Loon]

Take a look at http://wiki.phoenixviewer.com/doku.php?id=fs_speedtest

For a more detailed view with comments on special situations, see http://joelfoner.com/2010/03/understanding-the-maximum-bandwidth-option-in-the-second-life-viewer/

[Ayesha Askham]

I should be a bit more transparent in my question. 

I know the phoenix recommendation, and I tested my dowload speed to  the Dallas Fort Worth and San Francisco servers, to get a "feel" for the true line speed from SL to my PC in the UK.

If the results are to be believed there is a huge difference between Dallas and SF, but both gave me sufficient speed to run 1500kbps as my bandwidth.

It just seems to me that the transmission speed from SL is decreasing as time passes, and I wonder whether in fact SL's own servers are slowing?

[Void Singer]

it also depends on what load the machine is question is under, and how saturated the bandwidth is local to both endpoints. misconfigured caching proxies can hurt too.

[Ayesha Askham]

@Void

I take your point, Void, and have checked the proximal end as far as I can. 

The PC in question is as well configured for SL as I can sensibly manage, I daresay I get better average performance than most, I'm just curious.

[Void Singer]

I was thinking more of the server load.... local load is likely to be fairly low for for I/O unless your your watching streaming video, or running something like a bittorrent client. (as for bandwidth, anyone on the same node locally could effect it, and the server end could be flooded, although shouldn't, since datacenters pay through the nose for the width of their outgoing pipe)