Hacker News new | ask | show | jobs
by justinclift 974 days ago
I thought I'd tested that before and there wasn't a difference.

But testing again now - just in case I was misremembering - and Civ 6 is downloading from the Melb server at ~15MB/s currently.

Thanks for prompting me! :)

---

Testing the Sydney server now too, and that's ~20MB/s. Looks like a solid win there as well. :)
1 comments
nhinck 974 days ago
Well it's not what it could be at least it's better.
link
justinclift 973 days ago
Interestingly, when testing Steam downloads from Syd and Bris servers just now - 4:10am local time - (downloading Control Ultimate Edition this time around), both of them were able to give consistent download rates of ~50MB/s.

That's in line with "line speed" for my current NBN plan through Launtel. Might try bumping that up to the 1000/50 plan at some point and see if the download rates go that high too. :)

link
justinclift 972 days ago
Trying the same test (downloading Control Ultimate Edition) from the Brisbane server at ~3pm rather than the dead of night gives the same download rate too. ~50MB/s.

---

After bumping the NBN connection speed up to 1000/50, and confirming that was effective (eg through speedtest.net), I've retried the download of Control Ultimate Edition.

Downloads from the Brisbane server are still mostly around 50MB/s, though the peak download rate was 72.7MB/s (very briefly).

Downloads from the Sydney server were mostly around 20MB/s, with a brief peak up to 43.7MB/s.

Downloads from the Melbourne server were mostly around 10MB/s, with a peak of 17.1MB/s. Seems like some kind of artificial restriction is in place now, though it could turn out to be something else (tcp buffer config of some sort maybe?).

Anyway, it seems like the local server (Brisbane) is now easily the fastest download for me, so I'll be using that from here on. Might as well drop the NBN connection back down to 400/50 as well, as there doesn't currently seem to be an advantage using the higher 1000/50 plan.

link