I have just completed upgrading the video players on my websites to a 640x480 screen. I am offering them for stream and download, late last year i upgraded my bandwidth and moved our server to Europe. My concern is the speed of the video downloads and the speed of my site in general ie the tour pages and photos loading . I am on high speed cable here on the West coast and sometimes it is very slow to download a movie file.Between 30kb/s and 50kb/s in contrast i can download about 1200kb/s from a server based in California or BC i was also noticing my sites were sometimes slow to load. I had one of my Tech guys look at the problem, to make sure all my code and everything was OK, it all checked out fine. However he did a tracing route from Europe to Vancouver and said the problem was more than likely a result of the distance the data has to travel, and there was a major slowdown from where it jumps from NYC to Europe. This Tech stuff is not my thing, i'm a marketing guy, i wanted to see if other GWW have seen this problem. I was told that i can add a US based server, and that would solve the problem, maybe? I moved my servers to Europe to get more bandwidth at a cheaper price, i am very happy with there service, however since most of my customers are in the US i need to make sure my sites are running as fast as they can for my US based customers. I have not had any customers complain, and have had several people check the speed of the video downloads in various cities,on the East coast and Europe and most said that the speed was fine. however here on the West coast on my computers it seems slow. I would appreciate any solutions, or ideas, and if adding a US based server to the members area would be a good idea. As i said because i have not had any complaints, i am not sure how much of a concern this is, i just want to make sure everything is running as well as it can. Maybe some of you could tell me how quick my sites home page and tour pages load, and if they seem slow www.markwolff.com www.markwolffvideo.com also if someone on the east coast, west coast, europe and even S. America wants to PM me i can send a password to the members area, so they could check the download speeds of the videos.
Thanks for your help
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