Will my bandwidth-speed also improve when I upgrade from a 512MB droplet to 1GB?

January 9, 2014 4.3k views
mo.parlakci
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When I do a speedtest it's currently around 350megabit down & 120 megabits upload Can I ever get 1 gigabit upload? Just wondering Thanks, Have a nice day
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kamaln7 MOD January 10, 2014
The droplets run on shared full-duplex 1 Gbit/s port per hypervisor. Keep in mind that latency drastically affects speed. Try using https://github.com/sivel/speedtest-cli, the results should be close to 1 Gbit/s as long as the server you're testing against is close to your droplet.
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