[AusNOG] Speedtest.net is down

[Travers Stark]

I am pretty sure VicIX has one (not a speedtest app, but rather a couple of big files that can be downloaded.
Joe did this a couple of months ago for us.

On 28/07/2012, at 9:22 PM, "Brad Peczka" <brad at bradpeczka.com> wrote:

> You could always use the mirror that is hosted on an IX - you're then just limited by the size/speed of your peering connection!
> 
> <plug> http://waia.speedtest.net/ </plug> :-)
> 
> Regards,
> -Brad.
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> From: ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net [ausnog-bounces at lists.ausnog.net] On Behalf Of Jason Leschnik [leschnik at gmail.com]
> Sent: Friday, 27 July 2012 6:31 PM
> To: Damien Gardner Jnr
> Cc: ausnog at lists.ausnog.net
> Subject: Re: [AusNOG] Speedtest.net is down
> 
> 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
>> 
>> 
>> Jacob Gardiner
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