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FredDag

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#34938 1-Jun-2009 14:35
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Hi Snap,

Your service has been all right by me. I was predicting it to all go pear shaped after Canterbury university came back online in March, after a wonderful summer of high bandwidth, but.. it has stayed up and strong. I am surprised.

My ping times still bite, with me being in Wellington, with your PoP being in Christchurch. But.. I hardly have time for the twitch FPS's these days.

So.. way to go Snap. Keep it up.

Fred

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friedCrumpet
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  #224977 14-Jun-2009 18:26
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Just how bad are the ping times for you? I'm also in Wellington and considering snap so I'd like to know if it's within a range that I'd consider tolerable.




FredDag

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  #224989 14-Jun-2009 18:56
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Speeds "to" Christchurch (Well, the peering point IS in chch)



I'm in Wellington so here is Welli to Welli (It goes down to Chch then back up to Welli.. via telstra backbone I think)

[Well... speedtest is broken, guess the citylink server is poked at the moment.. but it did d/l at 7.3Mb/s and ping of 40 - 46ms]

And now to LA!!



WOW not bad for this time of night... not bad considering how craptastic it once was (last year).

So.. bandwidth is great but.. ping is lame for gaming as the peer point for wellington is in Chch and its a long way down there and back up to Auckland to connect to the majority of NZ servers.. or heaven forbid .au servers if your that crazy and love playing the lag more than other gamers.

p2p is good... but i can't judge that so much as i only connected to encrypted clients and use a blocklist from bluetak.

Fred

FredDag

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  #224991 14-Jun-2009 19:00
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Oh... here is auckland:



Fred



friedCrumpet
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  #225007 14-Jun-2009 19:41
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Thanks. Anything < 100ms (to nz) is probably good enough for me.

FredDag

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  #225014 14-Jun-2009 20:04
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<100 to NZ? (o)(0) I'm confused.

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  #225016 14-Jun-2009 20:12
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FredDag: <100 to NZ? (o)(0) I'm confused.


He means from him to any other NZ sites - i.e. domestic traffic. (And I agree, <100 is perfectly adequate)




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