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Middle East Speedtest

I want to replace my UAE EC2 instances with something cheaper that have comparable network performance and latency.

$ curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -mes
 Machine location: United Arab Emirates, Dubai (Dubai)
 ISP & ORG: Amazon Technologies Inc. / Amazon Data Services UAE

 ## Middle East Speedtest.net

 Location                     Upload           Download         Ping
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Nearby                       2274.35 Mbit/s   900.56 Mbit/s    7.315 ms
---------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Cyprus, Limassol (PrimeTel)  67.25 Mbit/s     89.26 Mbit/s    165.661 ms
 Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 129.29 Mbit/s    164.08 Mbit/s   137.515 ms
 Egypt, Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 136.68 Mbit/s    245.12 Mbit/s   145.904 ms
 Lebanon, Tripoli (BItarNet)  109.64 Mbit/s    261.26 Mbit/s   140.012 ms
 UAE, Dubai (i3D)             2783.80 Mbit/s   3044.96 Mbit/s    2.338 ms
 Qatar, Doha (Ooredoo)        875.35 Mbit/s    1272.90 Mbit/s   15.437 ms
 SA, Riyadh (ITC)             755.65 Mbit/s    638.62 Mbit/s    18.718 ms
 Bahrain, Manama (Zain)       812.12 Mbit/s    1667.23 Mbit/s   12.721 ms
 Iran, Tehran (MCI)           444.48 Mbit/s    738.93 Mbit/s    46.216 ms
---------------------------------------------------------------------------

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Comments

  • tjntjn Member

    There are very few independent datacentres in the middle east - unless there's a new provider I don't know about, your options really are, AWS, Azure, Alibaba Cloud and the NetApp alliance.

    Thanked by 1loay
  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    Oneprovider has VPS there but never tried it

  • loayloay Member

    @bruh21 said: Oneprovider

    Out of stock

  • rskrsk Member, Patron Provider

    @loay said:

    @bruh21 said: Oneprovider

    Out of stock

    I ordered one yesterday, so keep checking :)

    So far, ok network, sub 10ms from within etisalat and du.

    Im monitoring it long term before I use it for anything critical … for now.

    Thanked by 1loay
  • bruh21bruh21 Member, Host Rep

    @loay said:

    @bruh21 said: Oneprovider

    Out of stock

    I saw it (UAE location) as in stock when I checked in the panel. Didn’t buy it though

    Thanked by 1loay
  • OhJohnOhJohn Member
    edited March 2023

    Compared to this one your AWS machine wins:

    Region: Middle-East  https://bench.monster v.1.5.16 2023-01-25 
     Usage : curl -LsO bench.monster/speedtest.sh; bash speedtest.sh -Middle-East
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     OS           : Ubuntu 20.04.4 LTS (64 Bit)
     Virt/Kernel  : KVM / 5.4.0-105-generic
     CPU Model    : QEMU Virtual CPU version 2.5+
     CPU Cores    : 4 @ 2095.076 MHz x86_64 16384 KB Cache
     CPU Flags    : AES-NI Disabled & VM-x/AMD-V Disabled
     Load Average : 0.14, 0.21, 0.23
     Total Space  : 78G (2.2G ~3% used)
     Total RAM    : 7767 MB (206 MB + 1042 MB Buff in use)
     Total SWAP   : 0 MB (0 MB in use)
     Uptime       : 0 days 0:40
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     ASN & ISP    : AS8849, Melbikomas UAB
     Organization : Melbicom
     Location     : Al Fujairah City, United Arab Emirates / AE
     Region       : Fujairah
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
     ## Geekbench v5 CPU Benchmark:
    
      Single Core : 599  (GOOD)
       Multi Core : 2258
    
     ## IO Test
    
     CPU Speed:
        bzip2     :  95.4 MB/s
       sha256     : 155 MB/s
       md5sum     : 452 MB/s
    
     RAM Speed:
       Avg. write : 2286.9 MB/s
       Avg. read  : 5495.5 MB/s
    
     Disk Speed:
       1st run    : 266 MB/s
       2nd run    : 357 MB/s
       3rd run    : 376 MB/s
       -----------------------
       Average    : 333.0 MB/s
    
     ## Middle East Speedtest.net
    
     Location                     Upload           Download         Ping   
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Nearby                       144.68 Mbit/s    127.24 Mbit/s   * 147.465 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Cyprus, Limassol (PrimeTel)  67.21 Mbit/s     42.13 Mbit/s    166.987 ms
     Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 112.57 Mbit/s    292.67 Mbit/s   155.321 ms
     Egypt, Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 112.89 Mbit/s    353.79 Mbit/s   140.559 ms
     Lebanon, Tripoli (BItarNet)  7.02 Mbit/s      271.45 Mbit/s   136.135 ms
     UAE, Dubai (i3D)             1313.24 Mbit/s   2699.64 Mbit/s    3.573 ms
     Qatar, Doha (Ooredoo)        345.15 Mbit/s    323.54 Mbit/s   219.285 ms
     SA, Riyadh (ITC)             204.55 Mbit/s    537.43 Mbit/s   100.340 ms
     Bahrain, Manama (Zain)       593.44 Mbit/s    867.86 Mbit/s    15.705 ms
     Iran, Tehran (MCI)           7.12 Mbit/s      123.60 Mbit/s   191.434 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
     Timestamp   : 2023-03-27 22:29:43 GMT
    
     - https://www.speedtest.net/result/14535591728.png
    

    This is single-homed etisalat and by those ping numbers I suspect some of the destinations routing through Europe or Singapore.

    But if you don't need much disk space and care mainly for UAE, it should work.

    @loay how did you do that second graph (latency ms)? Which tools is that?

    Thanked by 1loay
  • loayloay Member

    @OhJohn said: how did you do that second graph (latency ms)? Which tools is that?

    Thank you for the bench. The graph is from Amazon blog announcement of the UAE region.

    Thanked by 1OhJohn
  • Have been looking for Dubai VPS for like good price, I get around 19MS from Pakistan on OneProvider and 25 MS on lightnode servers.
    Lightnode pricing is pretty decent for middle east. AWS has been eating my wallet pretty much in many ways.

    Thanked by 1loay
  • loayloay Member

    @mmo25821 said: try @LightNode https://www.lightnode.com/

    @abdulsami34 said: Lightnode pricing is pretty decent for middle east. AWS has been eating my wallet pretty much in many ways.

    Thank you. Can you please share more info about lightnode middle east locations? They have servers in Egypt, Saudi and Kuwait! This is interesting.

  • mmo25821mmo25821 Member
    edited March 2023

    @loay said:

    @mmo25821 said: try @LightNode https://www.lightnode.com/

    @abdulsami34 said: Lightnode pricing is pretty decent for middle east. AWS has been eating my wallet pretty much in many ways.

    Thank you. Can you please share more info about lightnode middle east locations? They have servers in Egypt, Saudi and Kuwait! This is interesting.

    for me im in saudi arabia so my ms like 10 to 15 its okay with me and u can check the ping in the lightnode website

  • loayloay Member

    @mmo25821 said: for me im in saudi arabia so my ms like 10 to 15 its okay with me and u can check the ping in the lightnode website

    Thank you. I want to check their network for other locations too (mainly Egypt and Lebanon).

  • loayloay Member

    I think Frankfurt location is the best option for my use case. Linode/Akami and OVH provide the best overall network performance for both the Gulf and Egypt.

  • @loay said:

    I think Frankfurt location is the best option for my use case. Linode/Akami and OVH provide the best overall network performance for both the Gulf and Egypt.

    where is your location i will check the best for you

  • loayloay Member

    @mmo25821 said: where is your location i will check the best for you

    Egypt & Saudi

  • @loay said:

    @mmo25821 said: where is your location i will check the best for you

    Egypt & Saudi

    if u want frankfurt im personally used this and i have some 10€ per year

    https://vps.hosting/cart/frankfurt-nano-kvm-vps/
    from @xTom

    Thanked by 1loay
  • loayloay Member

    @mmo25821 said: if u want frankfurt im personally used this and i have some 10€ per year

    Going with Linode Frankfurt. Not that close to what I needed but the best overall performance.

     Machine location: Germany, Frankfurt am Main (Hesse)
     ISP & ORG: Akamai Technologies, Inc. / Linode
    
     ## Middle East Speedtest.net
    
     Location                     Upload           Download         Ping
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Nearby                       159.50 Mbit/s    440.37 Mbit/s   * 192.801 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Cyprus, Limassol (PrimeTel)  192.16 Mbit/s    217.44 Mbit/s    54.005 ms
     Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 393.63 Mbit/s    967.23 Mbit/s    49.877 ms
     Egypt, Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 293.87 Mbit/s    482.22 Mbit/s    59.508 ms
     Lebanon, Tripoli (BItarNet)  274.87 Mbit/s    490.57 Mbit/s    59.399 ms
     UAE, Dubai (i3D)             183.00 Mbit/s    437.80 Mbit/s   114.226 ms
     Qatar, Doha (Ooredoo)        140.72 Mbit/s    384.45 Mbit/s    88.316 ms
     SA, Riyadh (ITC)             241.67 Mbit/s    667.09 Mbit/s    83.994 ms
     Bahrain, Manama (Zain)       161.38 Mbit/s    606.30 Mbit/s    85.047 ms
     Iran, Tehran (MCI)           139.59 Mbit/s    605.76 Mbit/s    67.302 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
  • Have been looking for Dubai VPS for like good price

  • @loay said:

    @mmo25821 said: if u want frankfurt im personally used this and i have some 10€ per year

    Going with Linode Frankfurt. Not that close to what I needed but the best overall performance.

     Machine location: Germany, Frankfurt am Main (Hesse)
     ISP & ORG: Akamai Technologies, Inc. / Linode
    
     ## Middle East Speedtest.net
    
     Location                     Upload           Download         Ping
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Nearby                       159.50 Mbit/s    440.37 Mbit/s   * 192.801 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Cyprus, Limassol (PrimeTel)  192.16 Mbit/s    217.44 Mbit/s    54.005 ms
     Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 393.63 Mbit/s    967.23 Mbit/s    49.877 ms
     Egypt, Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 293.87 Mbit/s    482.22 Mbit/s    59.508 ms
     Lebanon, Tripoli (BItarNet)  274.87 Mbit/s    490.57 Mbit/s    59.399 ms
     UAE, Dubai (i3D)             183.00 Mbit/s    437.80 Mbit/s   114.226 ms
     Qatar, Doha (Ooredoo)        140.72 Mbit/s    384.45 Mbit/s    88.316 ms
     SA, Riyadh (ITC)             241.67 Mbit/s    667.09 Mbit/s    83.994 ms
     Bahrain, Manama (Zain)       161.38 Mbit/s    606.30 Mbit/s    85.047 ms
     Iran, Tehran (MCI)           139.59 Mbit/s    605.76 Mbit/s    67.302 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    

    that vps the 10€ per year i use it for personal vpn and wp website its great and good internet
    and sorry for my bad english language

    Thanked by 1loay
  • @qquccs said:
    Have been looking for Dubai VPS for like good price

    check lightnode starting 7$ per month

    Thanked by 1loay
  • mmo25821mmo25821 Member
    edited March 2023

    let me do a speed test for you
    Machine location: Germany, Frankfurt Am Main (Hesse)
    ISP & ORG: Owl Limited / Owl Limited

    ## Middle East Speedtest.net

    Location Upload Download Ping

    Nearby 698.60 Mbit/s 961.79 Mbit/s 6.986 ms

    Cyprus, Limassol (PrimeTel) 238.77 Mbit/s 276.04 Mbit/s 54.591 ms
    Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 289.26 Mbit/s 382.19 Mbit/s 55.017 ms
    Egypt, Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 311.97 Mbit/s 637.18 Mbit/s 55.411 ms
    Lebanon, Tripoli (BItarNet) 256.33 Mbit/s 320.85 Mbit/s 67.537 ms
    UAE, Dubai (i3D) 138.56 Mbit/s 310.21 Mbit/s 114.504 ms
    Qatar, Doha (Ooredoo) 155.57 Mbit/s 390.29 Mbit/s 119.248 ms
    SA, Riyadh (ITC) 172.28 Mbit/s 203.68 Mbit/s 89.826 ms
    Bahrain, Manama (Zain) 186.69 Mbit/s 508.45 Mbit/s 85.810 ms

    Iran, Tehran (MCI) 213.56 Mbit/s 112.12 Mbit/s 74.879 ms

    Thanked by 1loay
  • loayloay Member

    @mmo25821 said: let me do a speed test for you

    This is actually great. Thanks for sharing it, going to get one for sure. I fixed the formatting:

    ## Middle East Speedtest.net
    
    Location                     Upload           Download         Ping
    Cyprus Limassol (PrimeTel)  238.77 Mbit/s    276.04 Mbit/s    54.591 ms
    Israel Haifa (013Netvision) 289.26 Mbit/s    382.19 Mbit/s    55.017 ms
    Egypt Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 311.97 Mbit/s    637.18 Mbit/s    55.411 ms
    Lebanon Tripoli (BItarNet)  256.33 Mbit/s    320.85 Mbit/s    67.537 ms
    UAE Dubai (i3D)             138.56 Mbit/s    310.21 Mbit/s    114.504 ms
    Qatar Doha (Ooredoo)        155.57 Mbit/s    390.29 Mbit/s    119.248 ms
    SA Riyadh (ITC)             172.28 Mbit/s    203.68 Mbit/s    89.826 ms
    Bahrain Manama (Zain)       186.69 Mbit/s    508.45 Mbit/s    85.810 ms
    Iran Tehran (MCI)           213.56 Mbit/s    112.12 Mbit/s    74.879 ms
    
  • EC2 Bahrain probably has the best latency to Europe in the area. Finding sub 100ms latency to Europe from that part of the middle east is really difficult.

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  • loayloay Member

    @ehhthing said: EC2 Bahrain probably has the best latency to Europe in the area. Finding sub 100ms latency to Europe from that part of the middle east is really difficult.

    Yes, but why would you do that?

  • loayloay Member

    Latency to Middle East Comparison

    Latency to Middle East Comparison

  • I would look at Melbicom, they have vps in Fujairah, UAE.

    Thanked by 1loay
  • @loay said:

    @ehhthing said: EC2 Bahrain probably has the best latency to Europe in the area. Finding sub 100ms latency to Europe from that part of the middle east is really difficult.

    Yes, but why would you do that?

    Sorry I was under the impression that you wanted low latency to locations in Europe. Thus far, that has been my main purpose of getting a VPS in the middle east (mostly to use as a multi-hop VPN to get lower latencies to europe).

    Thanked by 1loay
  • @concept said: I would look at Melbicom, they have vps in Fujairah, UAE.

    Yes, see the benchmark above: https://lowendtalk.com/discussion/comment/3641137/#Comment_3641137 but it's not really good for Egypt and that benchmark does not show a good latency to Saudi Arabia.

    For Egypt and Middle East I would check a provider in Europe with TI Sparkle.

    Thanked by 1loay
  • @loay LightNode network looks like limited to 50-100Mbps.

    LightNode 1 Core Intel 2GB RAM - 7.71 USD | UAE (Dubai) |

    =========================================================
     \            Speedtest https://bench.monster            /
     \    System info, Geekbench, I/O test and speedtest     /
     \                  v1.5.16   2023-01-25                 /
     =========================================================
    
     Machine location: United Arab Emirates, Dubai (Dubai)
     ISP & ORG: Kaopu Cloud HK Limited / Lightnode-UAE
    
     ## Middle East Speedtest.net
    
     Location                     Upload           Download         Ping
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Nearby                       39.40 Mbit/s     31.16 Mbit/s    * 258.099 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Cyprus, Limassol (PrimeTel)  38.26 Mbit/s     35.02 Mbit/s    171.617 ms
     Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 30.61 Mbit/s     34.53 Mbit/s    175.827 ms
     Egypt, Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 42.02 Mbit/s     34.49 Mbit/s    159.963 ms
     Lebanon, Tripoli (BItarNet)  46.26 Mbit/s     38.80 Mbit/s    137.507 ms
     UAE, Dubai (i3D)             51.84 Mbit/s     48.80 Mbit/s      0.452 ms
     Qatar, Doha (Ooredoo)        52.66 Mbit/s     48.40 Mbit/s     10.792 ms
     SA, Riyadh (ITC)             52.67 Mbit/s     48.65 Mbit/s     17.297 ms
     Bahrain, Manama (Zain)       52.54 Mbit/s     48.31 Mbit/s     11.919 ms
     Iran, Tehran (MCI)           43.17 Mbit/s     37.67 Mbit/s    137.353 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    

    LightNode 1 Core Intel 2GB RAM - 7.71 USD | Riyadh (Saudi Arabia) |

    =========================================================
     \            Speedtest https://bench.monster            /
     \    System info, Geekbench, I/O test and speedtest     /
     \                  v1.5.16   2023-01-25                 /
     =========================================================
    
     Machine location: Saudi Arabia, Riyadh (Riyadh Region)
     ISP & ORG: Kaopu Cloud HK Limited / Lightnode-SA
    
     ## Middle East Speedtest.net
    
     Location                     Upload           Download         Ping
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Nearby                       61.02 Mbit/s     54.09 Mbit/s    * 218.627 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Cyprus, Limassol (PrimeTel)  59.45 Mbit/s     50.12 Mbit/s    140.500 ms
     Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 67.25 Mbit/s     73.63 Mbit/s    124.564 ms
     Egypt, Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 67.45 Mbit/s     75.29 Mbit/s     94.828 ms
     Lebanon, Tripoli (BItarNet)  66.14 Mbit/s     72.77 Mbit/s     97.888 ms
     UAE, Dubai (i3D)             104.97 Mbit/s    97.43 Mbit/s     15.981 ms
     Qatar, Doha (Ooredoo)        60.32 Mbit/s     83.67 Mbit/s      9.978 ms
     SA, Riyadh (ITC)             73.99 Mbit/s     70.13 Mbit/s     74.470 ms
     Bahrain, Manama (Zain)       20.76 Mbit/s     56.83 Mbit/s    217.763 ms
     Iran, Tehran (MCI)           5.08 Mbit/s      67.03 Mbit/s    156.283 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    Thanked by 2OhJohn loay
  • loayloay Member

    @febryanvaldo said: LightNode network looks like limited to 50-100Mbps.

    Also, the performance is not that good. I want something that have good latency on all of those locations.

    @OhJohn said: For Egypt and Middle East I would check a provider in Europe with TI Sparkle.

    I think the best and more reliable so far is Linode but will check TI Sparkle.

     Machine location: Germany, Frankfurt am Main (Hesse)
     ISP & ORG: Akamai Technologies, Inc. / Linode
    
     ## Middle East Speedtest.net
    
     Location                     Upload           Download         Ping
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Nearby                       165.76 Mbit/s    407.98 Mbit/s   * 255.871 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
     Cyprus, Limassol (PrimeTel)  254.12 Mbit/s    285.71 Mbit/s    54.124 ms
     Israel, Haifa (013Netvision) 393.13 Mbit/s    955.02 Mbit/s    50.003 ms
     Egypt, Cairo (Telecom Egypt) 282.52 Mbit/s    570.19 Mbit/s    56.180 ms
     Lebanon, Tripoli (BItarNet)  63.23 Mbit/s     359.36 Mbit/s    57.342 ms
     UAE, Dubai (i3D)             180.46 Mbit/s    454.75 Mbit/s   114.375 ms
     Qatar, Doha (Ooredoo)        147.86 Mbit/s    379.71 Mbit/s    88.500 ms
     SA, Riyadh (ITC)             189.75 Mbit/s    644.38 Mbit/s    82.994 ms
     Bahrain, Manama (Zain)       182.79 Mbit/s    601.26 Mbit/s    85.040 ms
     Iran, Tehran (MCI)           62.64 Mbit/s     443.32 Mbit/s    69.761 ms
    ---------------------------------------------------------------------------
    
    Thanked by 1xyl0n
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