I think the better question is what the hell is going on in Wellington!?!?
Wellington to Texas is about 12,000 km, or about 24,000 km round trip.
Light moves at about 3x10^8 metres/second through a vacuum cleaner (or is
that just a vacuum?), or about 2/3rd's that speed through a piece of fiber
optic cable.
24000 x 1000 / (3x10^8 x 2/3) = 0.12
So it takes about 120 milliseconds to get from Texas to Wellington and back
- presuming a perfectly straight path.
If you're seeing 41ms, then there's really only three possibilities :
* Someone moved Wellington closer to the US
* Someone moved Texas closer to NZ
* Your testing is flawed.
Scott
On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 4:53 PM, Jeremy Lawson
I was having some issues transferring to/from one of my Rackspace VPSs, so I run a few tests on speedtest.net from the VPS to various parts of NZ.
I expect SOME difference, but these are outrageous. Basically: What the hell is going on in Christchurch?
Ping 41ms - Wellington (CityLink) 167ms - Christchurch (Snap) 182 - Culverdon (Amuri Net)
Download (transfer to Texas from NZ) 152.79 Mb/s - From Wellington 2.35 Mb/s - From Christchurch 1.99 Mb/s - From Culverdon
Upload (transfer to NZ From Texas) 69.28 Mb/s - To Wellington 18.97 Mb/s - To Christchurch 7.48 Mb/s - To Culverdon
Source: (each of these are the last of several similar results) http://www.speedtest.net/result/2171916814.png http://www.speedtest.net/result/2171913440.png http://www.speedtest.net/result/2171915443.png
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