Images load slowly on Telstra

I've received reports that images from my servers are loading very slowly for people on Telstra links.

I'm not seeing this and I've confirmed that people on other ISPs don't have this problem - but it's also not a universal Telstra problem (other sites are fast), so it may be something about the way Telstra routes traffic from my VPS provider (Linode Tokyo).

Can I ask people who use Telstra to test downloading this file: http://speedtest.tokyo.linode.com/100MB-tokyo.bin (it's a 100MB file - so don't do it on your phone) ... let me know what kind of download speeds you get and how long it takes.

 

Im on velocity and that file is telling me 30 mins............

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@Rolf Latham @Emoi @freyja ... are you also able to try this file for comparison: http://speedtest.singapore.linode.com/100MB-singapore.bin

From what we've been able to work out, the way that Telstra routes traffic from Tokyo is via Hong Kong and there is a network hop there causing very slow download speeds.

If you are seeing the same performance from Singapore, the speed limitation is more likely at your end (ie slow cable or ADSL) rather than a network problem elsewhere.

 

Not intended to be viewed (doesn't contain any readable data) - it's merely a fixed size file for testing and comparing download speeds.

@WattleIdo which ISP are you on and what type of internet connection?

 

Okay - further testing seems to indicate that this is a time of day network congestion issue on the network links that Telstra use between Tokyo and Hong Kong.

So on a Saturday night, performance is bad because there is simply too much traffic trying to be pushed between Tokyo and Hong Kong over the network that Telstra have chosen to use.

Unfortunately, not much we can do about that. You could try complaining to Telstra - but I doubt they would even know what you are talking about, nor care