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by forcer 9y ago
You can send me email to janusz@speedchecker.xyz or through contact us page on www.speedchecker.xyz We operate large scale testing platform which can ping from many locations so we can triangulate better, demo here - http://www.m
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by forcer 9y ago
Yes this is the disadvantage of traditional IP geolocation databases. They work mostly by sourcing information from RIRs and ISPs. Unfortunately for a lot of larger organizations which typically exist in internet backbone that is very inacc
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by forcer 9y ago
That is very interesting! I wonder if some companies already doing that to "qualify" email addresses for sending spam, or more ethicaly enhancing their own email lists with this. e.g. checking if my customers use competitors
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by forcer 9y ago
If anyone is interested expanding the research in countries with low RIPE Atlas coverage, we can provide free research access to our Probe API which has over 10x more probes than Atlas. More here> http://probeapi.speedchecker.
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by forcer 10y ago
We were in similar boat but moved to Kong. Mashape offers lots of features for free but still essentials missing. I think focusing on Kong and neglecting Mashape is a good strategy for them. Pricewise Kong is still better then competitors.
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by forcer 10y ago
It seems they are in beta and very hard to find out where their datacenters are
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by forcer 10y ago
Yeah, thats pretty significant mistake
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Hyperloop Transportation Technologies plans to connect all of Europe(techcrunch.com)
1 points by forcer 10y ago|0 comments
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by forcer 10y ago
Isnt bidding on trademarked keywords forbidden on google these days?
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Are ISPs still throttling Netflix?(blog.speedchecker.xyz)
6 points by forcer 10y ago|1 comments
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by forcer 10y ago
We display our data publicly on the map. http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk/broadband_speed_in_my... Granted we do not have many results in the US (maybe ballpark 200k+ results in last 6 months), still you should be abl
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by forcer 10y ago
Andorra, small country in the middle of Pyrenees. Beautiful mountains with decent skiing in winter, all year around nice sunny weather, great food, almost all homes have fibre to home, close proximity to Barcelona. Cost-wise very affordable
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by forcer 10y ago
There isn't any insightful discussion going on. Suprisingly. So you are not missing out on any info.
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by forcer 10y ago
We run one the most popular speed test site in the UK at http://www.broadbandspeedchecker.co.uk . We are getting 20x more people testing today than usual. Also, because Ookla is down.
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Show HN: CDN testing tool shows how your website performs on any CDN(cloudperf.speedchecker.xyz)
4 points by forcer 10y ago|0 comments
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by forcer 10y ago
I wonder by how much ego played its role in this acquisition and how much commercial terms. Prague based Avast acquiring its Brno based rival. There have always been rivalrly between those cities too. Definitely the biggest tech transaction
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by forcer 10y ago
OK. That makes sense. I did not realize this is actually something you use to guide your all routing decisions. Smart!
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by forcer 10y ago
Good job guys! We will take a look if there is a way to integrate it with our tool at http://www.maplatency.com any plans on extending this to allow geo targeting of IPs?
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Cloud vs CDN… Are CDNs Always an Improvement?(blog.speedchecker.xyz)
3 points by forcer 10y ago|0 comments
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by forcer 10y ago
This is last-mile performance. We test from thousands of locations within India and other markets. Better latency in Singapore and UAE could be explained by better connectivity in those places in comparison with India. You can see that Sing
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by forcer 10y ago
We've run a latency check from few countries to all DigitalOcean datacenters just now from our CloudPerf last mile monitoring ( http://cloudperf.speedchecker.xyz ) . If anyone is interested to see which datacenter to chose. N
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by forcer 10y ago
OP Here> The setup was as follows: VM instance in each of the 4 cloud regions around the world: Council Bluffs, IA (us-central1) Berkeley County, SC (us-east1) St. Ghislain, Belgium (europe-west1) Changhua County, Taiwan (asia-east1) So
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by forcer 10y ago
yes. That is true. We did not expected the post will get that popular. Unfortunately, it was all done too late. What helped us the most was that blog is hosted on DigitalOcean VPS. We scaled up to the most powerful instance and instantly th
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by forcer 10y ago
OP Here> yes, omission on our part. CloudFlare is very popular and even more so on HackerNews. We should have added it. There are simply too many CDNs to put into one post/chart and still make the article interesting. You can sign u
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by forcer 10y ago
OP here: You are right, CloudFlare would have been nice and in retrospect we should have added it. I think it would have fared quite nicely as during all the tests we do on regular basis its doing really well.
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Google CDN Beta is already one of the fastest CDNs(blog.speedchecker.xyz)
351 points by forcer 10y ago|99 comments
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by forcer 11y ago
Simple pricing. No need for a calculator. And then you quote prices in swiss franks instead of US dollars as its common in hosting industry. I don't have currency converter in my head nor I know USD->CHF rate
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by forcer 11y ago
Can someone confirm whether signing up to e.g. Netflix in UK and using VPN with USA ip will give US selection of the movies? I signed up in USA and regularly switching to UK netflix for some EU tv-series which are not available in USA. If t
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Surprise! Google CDN Alpha Already Outperforming Competitors in Europe(blog.speedchecker.xyz)
6 points by forcer 11y ago|0 comments
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by forcer 11y ago
Ceirtanly better spending movie budget on movies that have potential inspiring people learning more about science

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