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[theducks]

This starts off as me trying to make a phone post, since there's a pan flute tune that was really popular in the late 80s/early 90s that Liz and I were trying to work out the name of. I couldn't connect to ljvoicepost on Gizmo - kept dropping out after a few seconds. So I thinks to myself, maybe they're doing some filtering. It seems not, I used UWA's VPN and had the same issues.

However, funny story.. I think Amnet have no bandwidth :


Connected via UWA VPN over Amnet



Connected directly via Amnet


I realise differential routing, etc, but really.. this is pretty damn slow off-VPN.

In other news, the sound of the fan in this ramping up as the flash applet runs a speed test is quite nifty, in this specific example ;>

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[shigawire.livejournal.com]

With the risk of this turning into WhingePool, i've been seeing unshiny things with amnet of late. Occasionally we'll intermittently lose most of the outside world for a few seconds, or it just won't be as fast as we've seen it before.

I'm of course a bandwidth whore. Not so much with the need for a huge download limit, but somehow bits of me think that my webpages should be down in 300ms or they're free.

This is a bit unreasonable, but Amnet use to be scaryily, and almost unsustainably fast. I could get ~500kB/s whenever. Now i'm really surprised if I get 128kB/s.

How sustainable is it to have a large residential userbase with several megabits each expecting fast speeds? Even with your own fibre rings around the city, how much upstream bandwidth is really affordable?

[shigawire.livejournal.com]

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