[clug] how to use traceroute (now: iinet performance)

[Steve Barnes]

Just wanted to post a follow-up to this.

(deep breath)

After numerous support calls to iinet over the past month (land line: 7 
calls, ~2+ hours, mobile 13 calls, ~1.5+ hours - most using the callback 
service), various logs of traceroutes, pings and concurrent downloads, 
standing outside in my red Crocs at 7pm with a laptop plugged into a 
different NTD port, losing my Internet connection for an hour, then 
losing my static IP address, waiting 4 days, getting it back, calling 
iinet to find out why the NBN tech hasn't showed up only to be told they 
weren't in fact coming...I'm pleased to report my speed issue has 
finally been resolved (phew).

According to the iinet CSR, the speed issue affected people with static 
IP addresses and resulted from a fault with the LDAP synchronisation, 
meaning I wasn't getting the correct speed profile. That's all I was 
able to discern. I don't know the extent to which this would have 
affected other accounts. The toolbox support ticket entry on the date 
the issue was resolved is masked behind an abstract "The event #3444731 
has been updated". Usually they're quite verbose...

Curious to know if anyone else noticed any improvements in their speed 
around 12/13/14 Aug.

[09:59] steve at localhost ~ $ wget http://ftp.iinet.net.au/test100MB.dat
--2014-08-19 09:59:48--  http://ftp.iinet.net.au/test100MB.dat
Resolving ftp.iinet.net.au (ftp.iinet.net.au)... 203.0.178.32
Connecting to ftp.iinet.net.au (ftp.iinet.net.au)|203.0.178.32|:80... 
connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 100000000 (95M) [chemical/x-mopac-input]
Saving to: ‘test100MB.dat’

100%[==========================================================>] 
100,000,000 2.81MB/s   in 34s

2014-08-19 10:00:23 (2.79 MB/s) - ‘test100MB.dat’ saved 
[100000000/100000000]

[10:00] steve at localhost ~ $

<rant about iinet support censored due to colourful language filter>

Cheers

Steve

> Barnsie, I reckon you're being ripped off. Here's my Internode adsl:
>
>
> mc at alloy tmp $ wget http://ftp.iinet.net.au/test100MB.dat
> --2014-06-25 11:49:33--  http://ftp.iinet.net.au/test100MB.dat
> Resolving ftp.iinet.net.au (ftp.iinet.net.au)... 203.0.178.32
> Connecting to ftp.iinet.net.au (ftp.iinet.net.au)|203.0.178.32|:80...
> connected.
> HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
> Length: 100000000 (95M) [chemical/x-mopac-input]
> Saving to: ‘test100MB.dat’
>
> 100%[===============================================================>]
> 100,000,000  751KB/s   in 2m 12s
>
> 2014-06-25 11:51:45 (742 KB/s) - ‘test100MB.dat’ saved [100000000/100000000]
>