[LINK] Why is European broadband faster and cheaper?

[Paul Brooks]

On 3/07/2011 12:33 PM, Ash Nallawalla wrote:
>
> Speedtest.net needs some improvement. I am in Melbourne, but am unable to
> refine my location to Melbourne, since the IP address (iiNet) resolves to
> Sydney, at least according to the tool. I am with Netspace, although it was
> acquired by iiNet. I used the Melbourne-based Micro21 server but the
> "distance" for my test was shown as 700 km. Hence it could be making
> assumptions when it gave me an A+ (97%) score.
Indeed - although it less about the surmised location and inferred distance and more
about the actual latency that interests me. Even though the tool thought you were in
Sydney, you were actually in Melbourne, so should have measured a low latency to a
melbourne server - for interest, what latency did it measure for you to the local server?

Paul.