So it’s fast. But it’s not so fast dur­ing the day. And not so fast when deal­ing with Aus­tralian servers. By way of exam­ple, when deal­ing with AARNet’s server, I was get­ting a measly 30KB/s down­load. So I go and start grab­bing the same file off a US server and all of a sud­den I’m cruis­ing along at 500KB/s. Yeah, go figure.

Me, I blame the crappy web proxy they make every­one use. It’s so cheap, though, that I’m not too fussed about it.

Just in case you cared, I’m sync­ing at 16418/1021… it’s accept­ably snappy. The per­for­mance isn’t amaz­ing dur­ing the day (and you’ve really got to won­der why – it’s not like many busi­nesses use TPG, is it?) but it tends to behave itself more (i.e. with Aus­tralian servers) at night. I haven’t had a chance to hit up a bit of CS/Q3/UT/UT2k4/other net­work game for “test­ing pur­poses” yet… maybe this evening. Maybe.

In other news, I’ve dis­cov­ered I’m gen­er­ally more pro­duc­tive work­ing from home than in the city. Some­thing to do with a lit­tle more sleep, a lit­tle less air­con (it’s oppres­sively warm com­pared to super-chilled offices, but I pre­fer it that way), a lit­tle more mon­i­tors (I’ve only got one at work), a lit­tle faster Inter­net (afore­men­tioned speeds ver­sus a 4Mbps link shared between about 150 peo­ple, 20+ servers and chan­nelled through a crap­tac­u­lar proxy), and more nat­ural light. Perhaps.

Now the only prob­lem is jug­gling free­lanc­ing com­mit­ments with “employee” com­mit­ments… but I’m using a com­puter for one and tex­tas for the other at the minute, so it’s fairly clearly delin­eated right now.

It all dri­ves you slowly crazy, but I was never a huge fan of san­ity, anyway.

Tags: crappy web proxy, little faster Internet, United States