Force internal traffic to outside of network

[mbatestblrock]

This may be a weird question, but I have my internal webserver, and when I go to locally via domain name I still hitting everything locally. I can tell by my speeds.

How can I force my traffic to go out side the network so I could upon many things see my site at a more actual speed?

Does this have anything to do with the host file? I am running Windows Vista.

Thanks so much!

Edit, this may be in the wrong section... I am running IIS as my server though ;)

[kenobewan]

This may be a weird question, but I have my internal webserver, and when I go to locally via domain name I still hitting everything locally. I can tell by my speeds.

How can I force my traffic to go out side the network so I could upon many things see my site at a more actual speed?

Does this have anything to do with the host file? I am running Windows Vista.

Thanks so much!

Edit, this may be in the wrong section... I am running IIS as my server though ;)

You are right. Your internet connection is governed by your broadband, if I understand your question. Things are normally faster locally via the network and slower externally. Sounds like you are wanting to hit your webserver externally?? More info please.

[mbatestblrock]

You are right. Your internet connection is governed by your broadband, if I understand your question. Things are normally faster locally via the network and slower externally. Sounds like you are wanting to hit your webserver externally?? More info please.

Correct I would like to be able to hit my web server nearly the same way everyone else would be. I know it sounds weird but I would like to hitting my server from the outside vs the inside. It just makes it that much easier to see what true speeds are looking like.

Does this make sense?

[kenobewan]

The only way I know to do this that is through a third party site. There free sites that do this. There are also tools like http_watch.