[AusNOG] Speedtest.net is down
Guy Ellis
guy at traverse.com.au
Fri Jul 27 21:20:03 EST 2012
Hey Chris,
Sorry I was being a bit cheeky - we run a speedtest server in our lab
and it works quite well internally.
However if you did have a local server(s) you could direct your
customers to it, which might help you explain the dynamics of the great
interweb.
- G.
On 27/07/2012 8:24 PM, Christopher Pollock wrote:
> That's an interesting trade-off Guy. You want your customers to stop
> complaining about bad Speedtest results, so you host it locally and
> donate bandwidth to other ISP's customers doing speed tests! You
> trade off all your customers bandwidth burn hitting the Internet for
> ST for other people's customers hitting you for it, and hope that B is
> less than A.
>
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> On Fri, Jul 27, 2012 at 8:19 PM, Guy Ellis <guy at traverse.com.au
> <mailto:guy at traverse.com.au>> wrote:
>
> Host it locally would be my advice
> It makes a huge difference!
>
> - Guy,
>
>
> On 27/07/2012 8:03 PM, Noel Butler wrote:
>> On Fri, 2012-07-27 at 19:18 +1000, Jacob Gardiner wrote:
>>> Sounds like you just don't like customers?
>>>
>>>
>>> Customers vary in skills - if you don't really like explaining
>>> something to somebody who may be non-technical then maybe a non
>>> client-facing role is more appropriate.
>>>
>>
>> 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 <http://speedtest.net>" {type master; file
>> "empty";}; .... of course would solve the problem heh
>>
>>
>>> Jacob Gardiner
>>> National Hosting Manager
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>>>
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>>
>>
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