Hi,

I’m currently with a 10Mbits port speed but I could upgrade to 100Mbits. The big questions are:

1- Is 100Mbits 10x faster than 10Mbits (meaning my data would go through 10x faster (when the server is not overloaded) — which I doubt, would be too good to be true)?

2- Or is it just that 100Mbits would allow me to serve more clients at the same time?

I’m running a site with roughly 80,000 page views per day (yes, I’m the guy who posted the question about swap file a few minutes ago), each pv totaling probably around 200-300K.

If I make a simple calculation, here’s what I get (but I may quite be forgetting something in this calculation):

10000000 bits = (10000000 / 8) = 1,250,000 bytes per second

80000 page views / 86400 (the number of seconds per day) = I’m getting 0.92 page views per second.

0.92 * 250,000 = I’m using roughly 231 481 bytes per second. Of course, there are peaks during the day but traffic is quite even.

Yet, does that mean that as soon as I get 5 concurrent page views, I’m already busting my 10Mbits port speed? Or is my calculation completely way off? :-) I also need to take into account that most page views take between 2 and 3 seconds to complete, so I may not even need 5 page views to to bust my 10Mbits… if my logic is right.