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What a Pipe

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  • 06-04-2007 11:18am
    #1
    spudmurf2k
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14 ✭


    I was in UCD at 19:00 yesterday evening finishing off a lab, and saw the internet was surprisingly fast whilst I uploaded some work to sendpace. I decided to run the speed test on the Blackknight site.

    It came out at 25 Mbit/s!

    Now that is a pipe.

    Couldn't think of anything to download, so went home and sat in the sun. Was fun while it lasted!


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    Blowfish
    Registered Users Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    Indeed. It's always that fast. It's limited to http traffic only (well, unless you know how to get around it ;)), but it's still fantastic for getting things like Linux distros or stuff from msdn.


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    LoGiE
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    There on HEAnet so they more then lightly have a gig connection to the net so thats pretty slow actually;)


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    Blowfish
    Registered Users Posts: 5,112 ✭✭✭Blowfish


    LoGiE wrote:
    There on HEAnet so they more then lightly have a gig connection
    AFAIK they have 3 400Mbit pipes, although it would be slightly insane if they didn't restrict it. 25 is pretty generous in fairness.

    HEAnet details


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    irlrobins
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    Blowfish wrote:
    It's limited to http traffic only
    Unless you have a staff machine... ah the days of BT going at 3000kbps.... :rolleyes:


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    Ba$tard
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    looking at that heanet stats is seriously impressively scary.

    I was once remotely connected to a redundant blade farm in a DMZ with 4x 2.25gig connections, each connection running ~70% utilization and 2 hotspare on-demand links ready to burst into life.

    I was tempted to use a single 2-cpu blade as a Counterstrike server :)


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