>>I'm running on a 1.5mb download/256kb upload cable connection.
>
>Is that the advertised rate, or the measured rate?
Yes. :-) It's how it's advertised, and I ran a couple online bandwidth
tests to check it.
>Are you just serving static content? What about the POSTs?
The content will be up
>Are you bottlenecked on your internet bandwidth? Are you bottlenecked
>on latency, if you're not re-using HTTP connections?
I can't find any reason to believe I am. I'm running on a 1.5mb
download/256mb upload cable connection. The Linux box is on similar. The
requests are fairly short HTTP
8310224k total, 1227552k used, 7082672k free, 191868k buffers
Swap: 2096472k total,0k used, 2096472k free, 612832k cached
PID USER PR NI VIRT RES SHR S %CPU %MEMTIME+ COMMAND
29503 tomcat25 0 1356m 200m 13m S 711 2.5 41:05.61 java
15500 rhull 19 0 1030m 9124