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Ultimate Geek

# 130344 12-May-2008 19:58

When did you download?: 7.53pm
How long did it take to download the file?: 34 sec

What ISP are you currently using?: Xtra
What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: Explorer 6GB FS/128
What city are you living in?: Hamilton

TechnoGuy001

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# 130345 12-May-2008 19:58

Download speed thou US proxy:

When did you download?: 7.45 pm

How long did it take to download the file?: 28 sec

What ISP are you currently using?: Orcon

What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: Surfer 20GB Broadband (FS/128)

What city are you living in?: Havelock North

Download speed normal (right click save target)

When did you download?: 7.50 pm

How long did it take to download the file?: 7 minutes 07 seconds

What ISP are you currently using?: Orcon

What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: Surfer 20GB Broadband (FS/128)

What city are you living in?: Havelock North

At the moment i'm making all my internet traffic to go thou the US proxy and my speeds are nearly back to normal!

coffeebaron

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# 130349 12-May-2008 20:09

When did you download?: 8:00pm
How long did it take to download the file?: 3 min

What ISP are you currently using?: Xnet
What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: Flood FS/FS
What city are you living in?: Auckland
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SamF

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# 130350 12-May-2008 20:26

When did you download?: 8:25pm
How long did it take to download the file?: 1 minutes and 59 seconds

What ISP are you currently using?: XNet
What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: Fusion (original)

What city are you living in?: Auckland

Will do one later on and hopefully it's faster.

SamF

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# 130353 12-May-2008 20:32

TechnoGuy001:

At the moment i'm making all my internet traffic to go thou the US proxy and my speeds are nearly back to normal!

What do you mean by this? Sounds useful!!

TechnoGuy001

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# 130358 12-May-2008 20:41

It's something called hot spot shield

It has other uses too :)

But I use it on my MacBook Pro, where it works really fast. But I tried it on my windows computer and it worked, but really slow.

but it might be better now... haven't tried for ages.

antoniosk

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# 130376 12-May-2008 21:08

When did you download?: [9:00pm]
How long did it take to download the file?: [1 minutes and 6 seconds]

What ISP are you currently using?: [TCL Cable]
What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: [4mbps 10GB]

What city are you living in?: [Wellington]

average speed 89.3KB/s

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manhinli

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# 130380 12-May-2008 21:11

Google Pages is not hosted in NZ or Aus, but my one looks like it's coming from Mountain View in California?

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TechnoGuy001

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# 130389 12-May-2008 21:23

I can provide USA (California) and/or New Zealand hosting for some more of these tests?? (my NZ host has unlimited NZ bandwidth, sure wouldn't mind using some of it :)) and both are fast (as fast as my line will go which is 400KB/s)

SamF

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# 130405 12-May-2008 22:01

TechnoGuy001: It's something called hot spot shield
It has other uses too :)

Uh, sorry I don't understand, hot spot shield looks like a vpn system... or does it vpn to a proxy in the US!?

Edit: Never mind, I Googled... sounds like a very handy little util!!!

TechnoGuy001

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# 130407 12-May-2008 22:06

Maybe I miss used the word "proxy" but it basically redirects all your internet traffic thou there US server. Yea it is a VPN...

I have a proxy site but as you may know they don't work with all sites, but this does.

SamF

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# 130441 13-May-2008 00:56

When did you download?: 12:50am (yes, as in just before 1am)
How long did it take to download the file?: 22 seconds

What ISP are you currently using?: XNet
What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: Fusion FS/FS (original) ~4mbit sync speed

What city are you living in?: Auckland

euanandrews

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# 130442 13-May-2008 01:08

Good idea manhinli!
Ya should put up the results on nzconnections somewhere...

my results:
When did you download?: [1:05am]
How long did it take to download the file?: [1 minutes and 15 seconds]

What ISP are you currently using?: [xnet]
What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: [River]

What city are you living in?: [Wellington]

zocster

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# 130455 13-May-2008 06:06

When did you download?: 6.04 a.m.
How long did it take to download the file?: 56 seconds

What ISP are you currently using?: TelstraClear Cable
What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: 10GB

What city are you living in?: Christchurch

riahon

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Ultimate Geek

# 130468 13-May-2008 07:55

When did you download?: 7.46am
How long did it take to download the file?: 29 sec

What ISP are you currently using?: Xtra
What broadband plan are you currently subscribed to?: Explorer 6GB FS/128
What city are you living in?: Hamilton

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