[AusNOG] Speedtest.net is down

Damien Gardner Jnr rendrag at rendrag.net
Fri Jul 27 20:35:57 EST 2012


All I really are about is that my 3-display Multi-monitor RDP from home 
to work is singing along as though I'm local to the machine, but our 
VOIP continues to work at the same time ;)

On 27/07/2012 8:31 PM, Jason Leschnik wrote:
> At the end of the day all that matters is your getting max speed
> between your workstation and as close to your ISP as possible,
> otherwise your at the whim of peer IX's and poor routing :(
>
> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:21 PM, Damien Gardner Jnr <rendrag at rendrag.net> wrote:
>> Which is rather bizarre, as from GS, I can happily get results of
>> 90MBytes/sec up/down..  In our Newcastle office, I can pull 990kBytes/sec
>> up/down our 10Mbps EFM, and 1.8MBytes/sec down (50k up, ugh) on our Optus
>> ADSL2 link (on which I can only manage 1.2MBytes/sec max on multiple
>> concurrent http downloads, go figure..)
>>
>> It quite possibly depends on which test server it think is 'closest' to
>> you..
>>
>>
>> On 27/07/2012 8:03 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
>>
>>
>> Skeeve has a point, that site is always slow and gives false results,
>> amazing the best I ever get is 400kB/s, yet I know I can transfer at over
>> 700kB/s on this shitty line with an 8mb svc from anywhere else, including
>> the US and UK
>>
>> zone "speedtest.net" {type master; file "empty";};     ....    of course
>> would solve the problem heh
>>
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