[AusNOG] Speedtest.net is down

[Guy Ellis]

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
>>>     www.squiz.com.au <http://www.squiz.com.au/>
>>>
>>>     435a Kent Street
>>>     Sydney NSW 2000
>>>
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>>>     192    @jacobgardiner <http://www.twitter.com/jacobgardiner/> 
>>
>>
>>
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Guy Ellis
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