Its all in the Time Zones, the American time zones should be accessible Before 9AM site time
there is No way of jumping the Line as with many servers(Depends how many requests they can handle) No Mirror System in Place
IE If a Server is "Busy" The Request is passed on to a server that is doing nothing.
If they Put you in a queue then Look elsewhere if the Time given seems Long
Some servers were Non-OP returning 404 errors

I got on the CERN Server in Switzerland with Little delay
http://ndt.switch.ch Unknown what it says, this is what it returned
Anyone care to Interpret?

quote:
** Starting test 1 of 1 **
Connected to: ndt.switch.ch -- Using IPv4 address
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 237.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 953.89kb/s
Server unable to determine bottleneck link type.
Information: Other network traffic is congesting the link
[S2C]: Packet queuing detected
click START to re-test
I just did a retest (same Server)
and clicked Statistics
and This was generated NOW I am Confused
quote:
WEB100 Enabled Statistics:
Checking for Middleboxes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
checking for firewalls . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . Done
running 10s outbound test (client-to-server [C2S]) . . . . . 237.0kb/s
running 10s inbound test (server-to-client [S2C]) . . . . . . 953.13kb/s
------ Client System Details ------
OS data: Name = Windows XP, Architecture = x86, Version = 5.1
Java data: Vendor = Sun Microsystems Inc., Version = 1.6.0_11
------ Web100 Detailed Analysis ------
Interprocess communications failed, unknown link type.
Link set to Full Duplex mode
Information: throughput is limited by other network traffic.
Good network cable(s) found
Normal duplex operation found.
Web100 reports the Round trip time = 178.87 msec; the Packet size = 1410 Bytes; and
There were 25 packets retransmitted, 109 duplicate acks received, and 131 SACK blocks received
The connection was idle 0 seconds (0%) of the time
C2S throughput test: Packet queuing detected: 2.30%
S2C throughput test: Packet queuing detected: 84.15%
This connection is network limited 99.67% of the time.
Web100 reports TCP negotiated the optional Performance Settings to:
RFC 2018 Selective Acknowledgment: ON
RFC 896 Nagle Algorithm: ON
RFC 3168 Explicit Congestion Notification: OFF
RFC 1323 Time Stamping: OFF
RFC 1323 Window Scaling: ON
Server 'ndt.switch.ch' is not behind a firewall. [Connection to the ephemeral port was successful]
Client is probably behind a firewall. [Connection to the ephemeral port failed]
Information: Network Middlebox is modifying MSS variable
Server IP addresses are preserved End-to-End
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