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« on: April 07, 2010, 06:17:55 pm » |
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Appears KC are now hosting an Ookla speedtest site: http://www.speedtest.net  Edit: Can anyone at KC confirm if the speedtest is hosted in Hull or another data center? |
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« Last Edit: April 07, 2010, 07:14:03 pm by Adrian »
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dylan
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« Reply #1 on: April 07, 2010, 07:34:54 pm » |
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If it is in Hull, then any speed tests done via speedtest.net would reflect the speed between two points on within KC's own network, rather than to a point out on the tinterweb.... I'm not sure that would be an entirely accurate 'real world' figure then....
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« Reply #3 on: April 07, 2010, 07:45:15 pm » |
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Perhaps lots of testers are connecting from off the KC network and using all the bandwidth lol!  |
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« Reply #4 on: April 07, 2010, 08:00:48 pm » |
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so another wasted of time then lol
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« Reply #5 on: April 07, 2010, 08:20:56 pm » |
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I don't believe it! They've done this to fool those less technologically savvy into thinking their speeds are fine, as this now becomes the default test server for us all.
I have just tested with their server and get 4mbps, which is not far off my sync speed. I get absolutely zero packet loss on it compared to every other speedtest, download and stream out there. I would expect this as its inside the network and therefore no packet shaper.
This is deception in my opinion.
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« Reply #6 on: April 07, 2010, 08:50:55 pm » |
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Speedtest server at http://www.speedtest.karoo.co.uk/ (212.50.160.37) eris.karoo.kcom.com http://www.ip-adress.com/whois/212.50.160.37inetnum: 212.50.160.32[Who Is IP][trace][Reverse IP Search] - 212.50.160.95[Who Is IP][trace][Reverse IP Search]
netname: NEWCOREKAROO-KCOM
descr: New Karoo Internal infrastructure
country: GB
admin-c: KR2955-RIPE
tech-c: KR2955-RIPE
remarks: infra-aw
remarks: rev-srv: ibex.kcom.com[Who Is Domain][trace][Reverse DNS Search]
remarks: rev-srv: bison.kcom.com[Who Is Domain][trace][Reverse DNS Search]
status: ASSIGNED PA
mnt-by: KINGSTON-MNT
source: RIPE # Filtered
remarks: rev-srv attribute deprecated by RIPE NCC on 02/09/2009 |
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« Reply #7 on: April 08, 2010, 02:11:09 pm » |
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speedtest.net to the manchester server I get..  speedtest.net to the Karoo server I get...  slower..  |
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« Reply #8 on: April 09, 2010, 01:41:23 pm » |
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Daytime to Karoo  Daytime To Manchester  Be surprising to see evening results later on. |
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« Reply #9 on: April 09, 2010, 04:47:28 pm » |
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WHOOAH!
Check out my super fast broadband speed ...... 0.09 B/s
LOL what a joke!! - if it goes any slower it's going to stop!
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« Reply #10 on: April 09, 2010, 07:53:24 pm » |
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usenet 50k asec
media player 11 from ms 500k a sec
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« Reply #11 on: April 09, 2010, 07:59:46 pm » |
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usenet 50k asec
media player 11 from ms 500k a sec
MAX working better then? |
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« Reply #13 on: April 09, 2010, 09:24:20 pm » |
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getting 50 k asec now from http
but got 200k a sec from usenet
strange night lol
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« Reply #14 on: April 10, 2010, 06:36:41 pm » |
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As that guy said basically Karoo admitted to him that they are making Max so unusable peak time to make people upgrade, it stinks to be honest and I am sure breaks pretty much a raft full of consumer laws if it could actually be proven.
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