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What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?

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"Jamie Kahn Genet" <> wrote in message
news:1i3koez.11q5t9lm3r7efN% k.nz...
> What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?

I am biased as I own it, but http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/speedtest (this is the
same as www.speedtest.net Auckland server) + there are some others linked at
the bottom of the website. It gets about a million tests from NZers per year
on it and increasing.

Thanks

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:00:11 +1200, Craig Whitmore wrote:

> "Jamie Kahn Genet" <> wrote in message
> news:1i3koez.11q5t9lm3r7efN% k.nz...
>> What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?
>
> I am biased as I own it, but http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/speedtest (this is the
> same as www.speedtest.net Auckland server) + there are some others linked at
> the bottom of the website. It gets about a million tests from NZers per year
> on it and increasing.
>
> Thanks

Craig,
Can you collate the data from all those speed tests and keep a runnign
graph or similar of the results, by ISP, time of test, etc. One isolated
doest doesn't prove much, but a million tests would make interesting
reading...
Geoff

On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 21:36:33 +1200, Geoff
<> wrote in
<news:a9o0qov74cx8.1n7acuvmma6jf$. >:

> On Wed, 29 Aug 2007 07:00:11 +1200, Craig Whitmore wrote:
>
>> "Jamie Kahn Genet" <> wrote in message
>> news:1i3koez.11q5t9lm3r7efN% k.nz...
>>> What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?
>>
>> I am biased as I own it, but http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/speedtest (this is the
>> same as www.speedtest.net Auckland server) + there are some others linked at
>> the bottom of the website. It gets about a million tests from NZers per year
>> on it and increasing.
>>
>> Thanks
>
> Craig,
> Can you collate the data from all those speed tests and keep a runnign
> graph or similar of the results, by ISP, time of test, etc. One isolated
> doest doesn't prove much, but a million tests would make interesting
> reading...
> Geoff

Not to mention a helluva LOT of reading!!!

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Craig Whitmore <> wrote:

> "Jamie Kahn Genet" <> wrote in message
> news:1i3koez.11q5t9lm3r7efN% k.nz...
> > What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?
>
> I am biased as I own it, but http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/speedtest (this is the
> same as www.speedtest.net Auckland server) + there are some others linked at
> the bottom of the website. It gets about a million tests from NZers per year
> on it and increasing.
>
> Thanks

Cheers, that's very helpful. Though I can't say I'm real impressed with
my 'full speed' connection at times...

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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On a pleasant day while strolling in nz.comp, a person
by the name of Craig Whitmore exclaimed:
> I am biased as I own it, but http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/speedtest (this is the

And very useful it is too. Thanks Craig.

Consumer.org.nz also have one these days.

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Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
> Craig Whitmore <> wrote:
>
>> "Jamie Kahn Genet" <> wrote in message
>> news:1i3koez.11q5t9lm3r7efN% k.nz...
>>> What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?
>> I am biased as I own it, but http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/speedtest (this is the
>> same as www.speedtest.net Auckland server) + there are some others linked at
>> the bottom of the website. It gets about a million tests from NZers per year
>> on it and increasing.
>>
test site down kb/s up kb/s
Consumer.org.nz 2951 1908
nzdsl 3848 1984
speedtest.net 761 433

Consumer & nzdsl both use the ookla test meter and all tests were done
in the order above immediately following each other starting at 8.25 am.
You can see by the traceroutes below that the speedtest.net figures
look like they are due to the link between NZ and USA. There's an
immediate 120ms jump in response time. I don't know why I got such a big
discrepancy in download speed between the 2 NZ servers (Iconz and
Orcon), though there is a delay at tspn.telstraclear.net in the nzdsl
traceroute.


rks@thor:/home/rks$ traceroute 210.48.76.148 (Consumer)
traceroute to 210.48.76.148 (210.48.76.14, 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.770 ms 0.758 ms 0.672 ms
2 203-97-249-1.cable.telstraclear.net (203.97.249.1) 11.187 ms
14.541 ms 13.555 ms
3 * ae0-840.ie4.telstraclear.net (203.167.223.114) 8.241 ms 20.008 ms
4 ge-1-2-0-842.ie2.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.109) 19.348 ms
43.419 ms 16.583 ms
5 g1-0-927.u11.tspn.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.6) 25.686 ms *
21.616 ms
6 g1-926.u12.brh.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.35) 26.766 ms 22.644
ms 20.063 ms
7 lnk-iconz-g1-0-1396.u12.brfd.telstraclear.net (203.98.18.14)
18.811 ms 64.277 ms 20.676 ms
8 * ge-0-2-0.sky01-jcore.iconz.net (210.48.5.69) 20.166 ms 22.765 ms
9 ge-0-3-0.air01-jcore.iconz.net (210.48.5.2) 20.434 ms 19.939 ms
17.933 ms
10 ip-210-48-76-148.iconz.net.nz (210.48.76.14 26.008 ms 21.474 ms *



rks@thor:/home/rks$ traceroute 219.88.240.130 (nzdsl)
traceroute to 219.88.240.130 (219.88.240.130), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.691 ms 0.755 ms 0.700 ms
2 203-97-249-1.cable.telstraclear.net (203.97.249.1) 10.941 ms
18.746 ms 16.947 ms
3 * ae0-840.ie4.telstraclear.net (203.167.223.114) 9.457 ms 8.052 ms
4 ge-1-2-0-843.ie1.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.105) 21.314 ms
18.971 ms 25.700 ms
5 jcore2-ge-0-2-0-927-acld.auckland.clix.net.nz (218.101.61.14)
17.984 ms 23.126 ms *
6 g1-0-927.u11.tspn.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.6) 38.143 ms
247.909 ms 87.251 ms
7 g1-926.u12.brh.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.35) 142.380 ms 24.076
ms 73.704 ms
8 ge-0-3-0-2227.ar1.nct.orcon.net.nz (203.97.2.162) 26.445 ms
19.430 ms 19.974 ms
9 60.234.9.3 (60.234.9.3) 29.103 ms 20.523 ms 21.093 ms
10 ip-219-88-240-130.orcon.net.nz (219.88.240.130) 23.129 ms 20.170
ms 20.619 ms




rks@thor:/home/rks$ traceroute 69.17.117.207 (speedtest.net)
traceroute to 69.17.117.207 (69.17.117.207), 30 hops max, 40 byte packets
1 192.168.0.1 (192.168.0.1) 0.910 ms 0.749 ms 0.680 ms
2 203-97-249-1.cable.telstraclear.net (203.97.249.1) 15.337 ms
12.684 ms 17.303 ms
3 * ae0-840.ie4.telstraclear.net (203.167.223.114) 12.163 ms 8.632 ms
4 ge-1-2-0-843.ie1.telstraclear.net (218.101.61.105) 18.169 ms
18.884 ms 18.989 ms
5 ge-0-2-0-1.xcore1.acld.telstraclear.net (203.98.50.251) 43.651 ms
* 18.429 ms
6 203.167.128.1 (203.167.128.1) 19.999 ms 18.905 ms 20.663 ms
7 i-4-1.wil-core02.net.reach.com (202.84.142.133) 142.951 ms
143.376 ms 149.772 ms
8 i-6-2.wil04.net.reach.com (202.84.251.186) 143.357 ms 143.042 ms
143.800 ms
9 ge-6-21.car3.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.111.137) 143.496 ms
146.756 ms 144.530 ms
10 ae-2-54.bbr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.102.97) 152.270 ms
ae-2-52.bbr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.102.33) 144.395 ms
ae-2-54.bbr2.LosAngeles1.Level3.net (4.68.102.97) 151.873 ms
11 ae-0-0.mp2.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.247.9.122) 174.060 ms
as-0-0.mp1.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.247.10.137) 172.358 ms
ae-0-0.mp2.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.247.9.122) 171.263 ms
12 ae-22-52.car2.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.68.105.35) 175.953 ms
ae-12-51.car2.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.68.105.3) 177.871 ms
ae-22-52.car2.Seattle1.Level3.net (4.68.105.35) 171.180 ms
13 SPEAKEASY-I.car2.Seattle1.Level3.net (209.247.91.170) 178.847 ms
173.272 ms 171.666 ms
14 251.ge-1-3-0.sr1.sea5.speakeasy.net (69.17.82.5 178.249 ms
171.145 ms 252.ge-1-3-0.sr2.sea5.speakeasy.net (69.17.82.62) 171.242 ms
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On Thu, 30 Aug 2007 10:01:31 +1200, Rob S <Here@home> wrote:

>Jamie Kahn Genet wrote:
>> Craig Whitmore <> wrote:
>>
>>> "Jamie Kahn Genet" <> wrote in message
>>> news:1i3koez.11q5t9lm3r7efN% k.nz...
>>>> What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?
>>> I am biased as I own it, but http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/speedtest (this is the
>>> same as www.speedtest.net Auckland server) + there are some others linked at
>>> the bottom of the website. It gets about a million tests from NZers per year
>>> on it and increasing.



If you want to get the best speed check out your RWIN setting..




http://www.dslreports.com/tweaks


Plus speed checks etc..

On Tue, 28 Aug 2007 20:20:48 +1200, (Jamie
Kahn Genet) wrote:

>What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?

In addition to those linked from Craig's site there is

<http://www.woosh.com/contentclient/speedtest/speedtest.aspx>

which is listed at

<http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest?more=1>

There you can test your connection to the whole world

As to which is best or most reliable, I'm on Telstra cable in
Wellington with 4Mbs down. Ideally a test from Telstra would be of
most use because that would just test the link from them to me.

Testing just now I get:

Xtra 3209
NZ Consumer 2302
NZDSL 2315
Woosh 2288
WorldNet 3960
Actrix 4807
SPIMPS 4496


Actrix is presumably in Wgton (they warn "It is only intended for use
by Actrix customers, the results will not be meaningful for customers
of other ISP's")
SPIMPS state their test is from a server in Wgton.

Hope this helps.

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Jamie Kahn Genet <> wrote:

> Craig Whitmore <> wrote:
>
> > "Jamie Kahn Genet" <> wrote in message
> > news:1i3koez.11q5t9lm3r7efN% k.nz...
> > > What's the most reliable NZ-based speedtest around?
> >
> > I am biased as I own it, but http://www.nzdsl.co.nz/speedtest (this is the
> > same as www.speedtest.net Auckland server) + there are some others linked at
> > the bottom of the website. It gets about a million tests from NZers per year
> > on it and increasing.
> >
> > Thanks
>
> Cheers, that's very helpful. Though I can't say I'm real impressed with
> my 'full speed' connection at times...
>
> Regards,
> Jamie Kahn Genet

Download Speed: 2818 kbps (352.3 KB/sec transfer rate)
Upload Speed: 626 kbps (78.3 KB/sec transfer rate)

I feel I should be getting a higher download rate given how much I'm
paying for supposedly full speed. Still, it's not an _awful_ result.

Regards,
Jamie Kahn Genet
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