Johnatan56
Honorary Master
Atomic Access, 100/100 Frogfoot, Cape Town.
New York seems to be a bit more iffy, as in it's still scaling up/hasn't maxed out yet by the time the speedtest is done:
The speed is limited by the TCP/IP scaling window, if left for longer it would max out. US also has bad routing usually, e.g. AT&T I could hit 57Mbps down, but upload was 24Mbps, so seems heavily dependent on which speedtest server you pick. Most of the content you and I would consume would be either local caches/servers or London/Central Europe or a CDN hosted within Europe, very rarely would you actually get content from the US. Just adding that in case anyone attributes high value to the US speedtest being bad, for most it shouldn't really matter unless you're using game servers there, but you should rather stick with European servers.
New York seems to be a bit more iffy, as in it's still scaling up/hasn't maxed out yet by the time the speedtest is done:
The speed is limited by the TCP/IP scaling window, if left for longer it would max out. US also has bad routing usually, e.g. AT&T I could hit 57Mbps down, but upload was 24Mbps, so seems heavily dependent on which speedtest server you pick. Most of the content you and I would consume would be either local caches/servers or London/Central Europe or a CDN hosted within Europe, very rarely would you actually get content from the US. Just adding that in case anyone attributes high value to the US speedtest being bad, for most it shouldn't really matter unless you're using game servers there, but you should rather stick with European servers.
