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<p>Just to make sure we're fairly comparing technologies rather than
the bad shape regulation has left their delivery in North America
in... Here are some speedtest.net measurements from today (Friday
New Zealand time), using a selection of servers around the world
(with an unashamed selection bias towards the Pacific):</p>
<p>1) Between 5 and 6 pm from my docked laptop at work (UoA), on GbE
with fibre backhaul:</p>
<table width="1211" height="748" cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0">
<colgroup><col style="width:48pt" width="64" span="6"> </colgroup><tbody>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt;width:48pt" width="64" height="20">Location</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64">Server</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64">Down</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64">Up</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64">RTT</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64"><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Auckland</td>
<td>WorldNet</td>
<td align="right">831.45</td>
<td align="right">914.17</td>
<td align="right">1</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Auckland</td>
<td>Vodafone</td>
<td align="right">881.13</td>
<td align="right">930.93</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sydney</td>
<td>Optus</td>
<td align="right">904.4</td>
<td align="right">335.73</td>
<td align="right">29</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sydney</td>
<td>Vodafone Hutchinson</td>
<td align="right">803.63</td>
<td align="right">683.94</td>
<td align="right">27</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Hong Kong</td>
<td>HKIX</td>
<td align="right">101.04</td>
<td align="right">73.39</td>
<td align="right">284</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Hong Kong</td>
<td>i3D.net</td>
<td align="right">86.42</td>
<td align="right">39.58</td>
<td align="right">174</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Tokyo</td>
<td>OPEN Project (via 20G SINET)</td>
<td align="right">26.31</td>
<td align="right">30.51</td>
<td align="right">256</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Tokyo</td>
<td>i3D.net</td>
<td align="right">326.54</td>
<td align="right">15.69</td>
<td align="right">140</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Los Angeles</td>
<td>i3D.net</td>
<td align="right">342.85</td>
<td align="right">149.84</td>
<td align="right">158</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Los Angeles</td>
<td>2degrees</td>
<td align="right">388.95</td>
<td align="right">187.5</td>
<td align="right">125</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rarotonga</td>
<td>Vodafone Cook Islands</td>
<td align="right">75.1</td>
<td align="right">0.31</td>
<td align="right">280</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Apia, Samoa<br>
</td>
<td>Digicel Samoa</td>
<td align="right">736.72</td>
<td align="right">289.8</td>
<td align="right">76</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Bairiki, Kiribati<br>
</td>
<td>ATHKL</td>
<td align="right">20.41</td>
<td align="right">3.07</td>
<td align="right">333</td>
<td>on satellite (SES/O3b MEO)</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">New York</td>
<td>Atlantic Metro</td>
<td align="right">481.01</td>
<td align="right">120.29</td>
<td align="right">197</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">London</td>
<td>UK Dedicated Servers</td>
<td align="right">114.37</td>
<td align="right">83.21</td>
<td align="right">272</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Frankfurt</td>
<td>Deutsche Telekom</td>
<td align="right">194.7</td>
<td align="right">77</td>
<td align="right">299</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>2) Between 8:30 and 9:30 pm from my residential home fibre
connection (bog standard suburban Auckland install). I did a
traceroute on a couple of them to show that the path isn't always
obvious or anywhere near shortest. A lot of traffic that should
really stay on the western side of the Pacific makes its way all
the way to the US mainland: <br>
</p>
<p> </p>
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<colgroup><col style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:3547;width:73pt" width="97"> <col style="mso-width-source:userset;mso-width-alt:5632;width:116pt" width="154"> <col style="width:48pt" width="64" span="4"> </colgroup><tbody>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt;width:73pt" width="97" height="20">Location</td>
<td style="width:116pt" width="154">Server</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64">Down</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64">Up</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64">RTT</td>
<td style="width:48pt" width="64"><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Auckland</td>
<td>WorldNet</td>
<td align="right">868.67</td>
<td align="right">476.85</td>
<td align="right">3</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Auckland</td>
<td>Vodafone</td>
<td align="right">894.84</td>
<td align="right">458.47</td>
<td align="right">2</td>
<td>own ISP</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sydney</td>
<td>Optus</td>
<td align="right">713.48</td>
<td align="right">109.84</td>
<td align="right">31</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Sydney</td>
<td>Vodafone Hutchinson</td>
<td align="right">528.21</td>
<td align="right">166.57</td>
<td align="right">33</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Hong Kong</td>
<td>HKIX</td>
<td align="right">119.29</td>
<td align="right">26.84</td>
<td align="right">266</td>
<td>traceroute goes via Hurricane Electric in LAX</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Hong Kong</td>
<td>i3D.net</td>
<td align="right">120.66</td>
<td align="right">7.75</td>
<td align="right">265</td>
<td>also via HE in LAX</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Tokyo</td>
<td>OPEN Project (via 20G SINET)</td>
<td align="right">130.87</td>
<td align="right">38.63</td>
<td align="right">235</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Tokyo</td>
<td>i3D.net</td>
<td align="right">61.02</td>
<td align="right">31.18</td>
<td align="right">241</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Los Angeles</td>
<td>i3D.net</td>
<td align="right">295.05</td>
<td align="right">65.19</td>
<td align="right">128</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Los Angeles</td>
<td>2degrees</td>
<td align="right">544.75</td>
<td align="right">59.69</td>
<td align="right">127</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Rarotonga</td>
<td>Vodafone Cook Islands</td>
<td align="right">43.99</td>
<td align="right">1.09</td>
<td align="right">248</td>
<td>These guys are on the Manatua cable from Samoa to Tahiti.
Going by the traceroute, the traffic goes from NZ to
Hurricane Electric in LAX (either via Hawaiki or Southern
Cross Cable)<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>and
from there down on the Hawaiki cable to American Samoa, from
there to Western Samoa and onto the Manatua cable from
there. Must have a chat to their CEO to find out what is
going on there. <br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Apia, Samoa<br>
</td>
<td>Digicel Samoa</td>
<td align="right">365.01</td>
<td align="right">7.45</td>
<td align="right">79</td>
<td>I'm not sure what is going on there with their inbound
connection. Tide out?<br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Bairiki, Kiribati<br>
</td>
<td>ATHKL</td>
<td align="right">12.49</td>
<td align="right">2.04</td>
<td align="right">489</td>
<td>on satellite (SES/O3b MEO)</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">New York</td>
<td>Atlantic Metro</td>
<td align="right">412.56</td>
<td align="right">0</td>
<td align="right">230</td>
<td>no upload for some odd reason</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">London</td>
<td>UK Dedicated Servers</td>
<td align="right">45.39</td>
<td align="right">31.9</td>
<td align="right">262</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
<tr style="height:15.0pt" height="20">
<td style="height:15.0pt" height="20">Frankfurt</td>
<td>Deutsche Telekom</td>
<td align="right">183.99</td>
<td align="right">23.36</td>
<td align="right">270</td>
<td><br>
</td>
</tr>
</tbody>
</table>
<p>Rates in Mb/s, RTT in ms.</p>
<p>So working from home's just marginally worse in terms of Internet
here in Auckland than being at uni. And they haven't even
connected the Southern Cross Next cable yet. I pay about US$73 /
month, which includes a static public IPv4 address and home phone.<br>
</p>
<p>As for the islands, the only satellite-connected place with a
speedtest server I could find was Bairiki, which is part of Tarawa
Atoll in Kiribati, where one of the ISPs uses SES/O3b MEO (the
rest use GEO). It still has a whoppingly large RTT (probably
around 130-140 ms pure MEO link, without queue sojourn times).
I've also observed dozens of milliseconds of delay INSIDE Tarawa
in the past, so quite whether there's a segment of old coconut
telegraph in there that hasn't been upgraded yet, I don't know.
People on GEO in this part of the world would be well advised not
to host speedtest servers - it would eat through their data caps
in no time and make them deeply unpopular with their fellow
locals. <br>
</p>
<p><br>
</p>
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School of Computer Science
Room 303S.594 (City Campus)
Ph: (+64-9)-373-7599 ext. 85282
The University of Auckland
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