[Snap] Max TCP Connection Speed.

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sbaird

81 posts

Master Geek

#116063 17-Apr-2013 10:50

I'm looking at moving to Snap but notice they use Telstra as there upstream provider
Wondering if they suffer from the same problem that Telstra does with Single TCP connections unable to obtain full speed.

See http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=44&topicid=89922 and http://www.geekzone.co.nz/forums.asp?forumid=40&topicid=115734)

RalphFromSnap

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#800849 17-Apr-2013 11:43

Hi sbaird,

Yes there were some issues a while ago with Transit through TelstraGlobal (just one of our upstream carriers) where we saw buffering on individual TCP connections. in short this has now been completely resolved!

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sbaird

81 posts

Master Geek

#800850 17-Apr-2013 11:45

Good news, Thanks for that

Sam

unsignedint

69 posts

Master Geek

#801209 17-Apr-2013 21:00

Got connected yesterday, 30Mbit UFB. 8.55pm Single-threaded to New York, USA looks good to me:

$ wget http://speedtest.constant.com/100MBtest.bin -O /dev/null
--2013-04-17 20:55:57-- http://speedtest.constant.com/100MBtest.bin
Resolving speedtest.constant.com... 108.61.5.88, 2001:19f0:1595:1403::1088
Connecting to speedtest.constant.com|108.61.5.88|:80... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 104857600 (100M) [application/octet-stream]
Saving to: ‘/dev/null’

38% [=====================> ] 40,143,997 2.33MB/s eta 34s ^C

Sydney is 3.2MB/s or basically my line is maxed out. I'm happy, mind you.. this is UFB so I'm not sure about DSL related congestion, except in my [very quick tests] I'm not very worried about Snap's upstream international connectivity.

That said, I'm just hoping with Vodafone taking over Telstra NZ that doesn't mean Snap's Telstra transit will turn in to Vodafone's (Vocus).

mercutio

1392 posts

Uber Geek

#801780 18-Apr-2013 17:14

there can still be issues on telstraglobal routes sometimes, which i think is unlikely to get resolved. lots of stuff is fine though.