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  From: Glen Turner <glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au>
  To  : David Rowlands <davidr@empower.com.au>
  Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2000 20:31:47 +1030

Re: Some info on speed of connection

David Rowlands wrote:
> 
> When telstra install it, they normally do a speed test where they ftp a 1
> and or 10 meg file from and to a server on the ADSL network, they then
> record the speed on the installation work sheet. They use a machine on the
> "local" network so that other traffic doesnt degrade the the speed. You
> could get your friend to try downloading a 10 meg file from somewhere like
> http://mirror.aarnet.edu.au
> I normally download 10 megs of a linux iso when I want to test my
> connection.

Oh dear.  We're about to run AS-based QoS that will give
AARNet users of the mirror better network performance than
non-AARNet users.  So a poor result may mean nothing else
than AARNet users are downloading stuff.

We've had to do this because the funding situation with the
mirror isn't that good.

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 Glen Turner                                 Network Engineer
 (08) 8303 3936      Australian Academic and Research Network
 glen.turner@aarnet.edu.au          http://www.aarnet.edu.au/
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