[nzlug] Slow uploads to Trademe

[Robert Coup]

Cliff Pratt wrote:
> Nick Rout wrote:
>> How about just sending pings to the offending server with increasing
>> packet sizes until it fails.
>>
> If it does return pings. Many don't these days.
And when they do, many intermediate routers seem to arbitrarily drop 
ICMP packets greater than a certain size. I can't ping www.trademe.co.nz 
(continuing our example) for packet sizes > ~8KB.

Rob :)