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Speed test

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I added SPEED TEST function in my blog yesterday.It’s just for people who want to know how their lines are performing currently.

SPEED TEST button in the head of my blog

By inserting this function in my blog,my visitors could do the test to tell me how the accessibilities are and give me the latest report.Thus,I may inform my hosting service provider to deal with the problems immediately.

However,since this speed test mini tool is not so professional.Therefore,the results from testing are possibly not accurate and so treating them as references are optimum.By the way,if you have an iPhone in your hands,you also could get the similar tool in the iTunes App Store and then install and do the speed test in the phone.

Guys,if you feel free,please click on the button and show up the result in the comment.I will be so appreciated to see you to do so.

Finally,thanks Speedtest.net providing this useful gadget.

Undersea cables recovered?

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As my blog sets up on a US server,the recent disruption of undersea cables suffers on my blog too.Slow loading speed troubles me a lot that I need to take much time on uploading new contents.

Well,it seems to have been ended by today.I visited my blog just now and found the speed is back to normal.In order to validate my assumption,I did a speedtest a moment ago.

Compared to the result done several days ago.

 

Since the above figures,the connection to a London server has improved quite a lot-lower ping time and higher loading speed;However,I failed to complete a test on a Cairo server except getting a better ping time(latency) which is 549ms.

It is a pity that I can’t find any official announcement regarding to this issue up to now.Thus,whether the good view is because of a temporary hit-and-miss recovery or a result of completion of repairs is still unknown.But anyway,I like the smooth surfing speed.

Undersea cables broke again(continued)

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The broken undersea cables were said to be repaired by December 31,2008.However,it doesn’t seem to be realized now.

A recent report from The National said a representative from UAE-based Telco, Etisalat said repairs along the cable system stretched beyond Thursday, as initially projected, because of complications in a cable located off Egypt.

I did some loading tests on speedtest.net .Let’s figure out:

This result was tested on a nearest local server.It could be treated to be a rough reference. 

 

Those two results were tested to the servers in China.It was considered to be fair performances.

 

 

These two were tested on the servers in UK and US.The congestions may be caused by the reroutes from the other affected areas by the incident and so leads to high ping and lower speeds.

 

Egypt is influenced hugely by the incident.The above one was tested on the server there.The snaillike speed and high latency have shown the issue clearly.

It’s only the thing happened in Mediterranean sea,but impacting on almost all countries.Thus,this current incident may just describe that Internet makes the world smaller in an abnormal way.Of course,I think it also tells those Telecom giants that investments are strongly needed in order to build up more ‘broad roads’ to eliminate or relieve some congestions.

I believe that most netizens are looking forward to a faster Internet service,so do I.Hopefully the repairs could be done the sooner the better. :D