[AusNOG] Speedtest.net is down

[Jason Leschnik]

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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