Comments on: PBwiki versus the speed of light http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/ The official blog of PBwiki Fri, 25 Jul 2008 11:10:32 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 By: Nathan Schmidt http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-25695 Nathan Schmidt Thu, 09 Aug 2007 02:13:53 +0000 http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-25695 @Bloodbeard, Asia is next in the queue after East Coast US and Western/Central Europe. @Kernigh, Yep, curl is one tool we use (almost the exact same syntax, actually) and there are a couple of other things we do to measure download speeds and times. The Firefox extension FireBug is very good for this kind of testing as well. @jed624, We're looking at a number of possible solutions, including Akamai (simple, expensive), our own hosted servers (tricky, expensive), co-located proxies (relatively cheap, relatively simple) and simply placing a couple more static asset servers around the world (relatively cheap, very simple) @Bloodbeard,

Asia is next in the queue after East Coast US and Western/Central Europe.

@Kernigh,

Yep, curl is one tool we use (almost the exact same syntax, actually) and there are a couple of other things we do to measure download speeds and times. The Firefox extension FireBug is very good for this kind of testing as well.

@jed624,

We’re looking at a number of possible solutions, including Akamai (simple, expensive), our own hosted servers (tricky, expensive), co-located proxies (relatively cheap, relatively simple) and simply placing a couple more static asset servers around the world (relatively cheap, very simple)

]]> By: jed624 http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-25662 jed624 Wed, 08 Aug 2007 21:20:12 +0000 http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-25662 The Akamai service is a great and affordable way to go as well. (I'm not a salesperson... :-) ) They have 15,000+ servers all over the planet - and they figure out which server is closest to the user. That buys a lot of peace of mind. The Akamai service is a great and affordable way to go as well. (I’m not a salesperson… :-) ) They have 15,000+ servers all over the planet - and they figure out which server is closest to the user. That buys a lot of peace of mind.

]]> By: herdingoldcats http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-25350 herdingoldcats Tue, 07 Aug 2007 02:29:04 +0000 http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-25350 DSL stinks? I guess "fragrance is in the nostrils of the beholder". DSL is massively more fragrant than the dial-up we used to have. Nonetheless, those are very interesting data points - I think you're surfing on the surplus brainwaves available in the Bay area and Silicon Valley. You get a speed boost that way. DSL stinks?
I guess “fragrance is in the nostrils of the beholder”.
DSL is massively more fragrant than the dial-up we used to have.
Nonetheless, those are very interesting data points - I think you’re surfing on the surplus brainwaves available in the Bay area and Silicon Valley. You get a speed boost that way.

]]> By: Kernigh http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-23730 Kernigh Sun, 29 Jul 2007 15:21:24 +0000 http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-23730 I found that I could use 'curl' to time connections to web sites. For example, curl -w '\nconnect %{time_connect}, total %{time_total}\n' -o /dev/null http://kernigh.pbwiki.com Here in the eastern USA, I find that it takes about 122 ms to connect to kernigh.pbwiki.com and 500-700 ms to download the wiki page. (A 'ping' needs about 95 ms.) However a real browser would be slower because it would have to download images/css/js, and I have not found a timer in Konqueror. Maybe there is a Firefox extension that times connections... I found that I could use ‘curl’ to time connections to web sites. For example,

curl -w ‘\nconnect %{time_connect}, total %{time_total}\n’ -o /dev/null http://kernigh.pbwiki.com

Here in the eastern USA, I find that it takes about 122 ms to connect to kernigh.pbwiki.com and 500-700 ms to download the wiki page. (A ‘ping’ needs about 95 ms.) However a real browser would be slower because it would have to download images/css/js, and I have not found a timer in Konqueror.

Maybe there is a Firefox extension that times connections…

]]> By: Bloobeard http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-23704 Bloobeard Sun, 29 Jul 2007 10:45:18 +0000 http://blog.pbwiki.com/2007/07/27/pbwiki-versus-the-speed-of-light/#comment-23704 How about an Asian server too ;) How about an Asian server too ;)

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