Downloading the same file at the same time on two servers goes at 1.8 MB/s on one, 200 KB/s on the other; the latter happily downloads at 3 MB/s from upload.wikimedia.org.
```
$ wget -O /dev/null --no-check-certificate https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Wikiconference_in_Moscow_day_2_part_5.webm
--2015-12-04 22:16:17-- https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/f/f2/Wikiconference_in_Moscow_day_2_part_5.webm
Resolving upload.wikimedia.org... 91.198.174.208, 2620:0:862:ed1a::2:b
Connecting to upload.wikimedia.org|91.198.174.208|:443... connected.
WARNING: certificate common name “*.wikipedia.org” doesn’t match requested host name “upload.wikimedia.org”.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 3573382210 (3.3G) [video/webm]
Saving to: “/dev/null”
10% [=========> ] 385,027,006 2.47M/s eta 18m 17s
$ traceroute upload.wikimedia.org
traceroute to upload.wikimedia.org (91.198.174.208), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 109-204-236-1.kierratyskone.fi (109.204.236.1) 0.880 ms 0.853 ms 1.055 ms
2 host-109-204-196-145.tp-fne.tampereenpuhelin.net (109.204.196.145) 1.776 ms 2.078 ms 2.056 ms
3 host-109-204-196-129.tp-fne.tampereenpuhelin.net (109.204.196.129) 4.473 ms 5.434 ms 4.414 ms
4 ae4-100.RT.HMO.HKI.FI.retn.net (87.245.248.161) 4.656 ms 4.634 ms 4.599 ms
5 et1010-4.RT.TC2.AMS.NL.retn.net (87.245.232.114) 32.540 ms 32.519 ms 32.242 ms
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$ traceroute dumps.wikimedia.org
traceroute to dumps.wikimedia.org (208.80.154.11), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 109-204-236-1.kierratyskone.fi (109.204.236.1) 150.904 ms 150.879 ms 151.070 ms
2 host-109-204-196-145.tp-fne.tampereenpuhelin.net (109.204.196.145) 1.658 ms 1.888 ms 1.868 ms
3 host-109-204-196-129.tp-fne.tampereenpuhelin.net (109.204.196.129) 4.332 ms 4.316 ms 4.295 ms
4 hls-b3-link.telia.net (213.248.92.101) 4.523 ms 4.495 ms 4.477 ms
5 s-bb3-link.telia.net (213.155.134.106) 11.912 ms s-bb3-link.telia.net (80.91.245.34) 11.900 ms s-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.142.242) 12.371 ms
6 kbn-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.139.167) 21.056 ms kbn-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.139.177) 18.418 ms kbn-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.139.167) 21.158 ms
7 nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (213.155.134.52) 109.327 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (62.115.141.101) 112.355 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (80.91.249.21) 100.568 ms
8 ash-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.136.201) 125.541 ms 125.348 ms ash-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.137.60) 109.542 ms
9 ash-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.113.211) 112.030 ms 112.640 ms ash-b1-link.telia.net (213.155.130.3) 114.330 ms
10 wikimedia-ic-308845-ash-b2.c.telia.net (80.239.132.226) 117.999 ms 113.624 ms 113.622 ms
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$ traceroute upload-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org
traceroute to upload-lb.eqiad.wikimedia.org (208.80.154.240), 30 hops max, 60 byte packets
1 109-204-236-1.kierratyskone.fi (109.204.236.1) 0.807 ms 0.783 ms 0.763 ms
2 host-109-204-196-145.tp-fne.tampereenpuhelin.net (109.204.196.145) 1.442 ms 1.678 ms 1.888 ms
3 host-109-204-196-129.tp-fne.tampereenpuhelin.net (109.204.196.129) 4.374 ms 4.358 ms 4.336 ms
4 hls-b3-link.telia.net (213.248.92.101) 4.552 ms 4.532 ms 4.503 ms
5 s-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.113.106) 11.951 ms s-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.113.104) 11.937 ms s-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.114.44) 11.166 ms
6 kbn-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.139.171) 21.132 ms kbn-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.139.60) 20.204 ms kbn-bb4-link.telia.net (62.115.139.175) 18.937 ms
7 nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.247.121) 122.086 ms nyk-bb2-link.telia.net (80.91.249.29) 108.387 ms nyk-bb1-link.telia.net (62.115.141.97) 150.047 ms
8 ash-bb4-link.telia.net (80.91.245.98) 116.031 ms ash-bb3-link.telia.net (62.115.138.23) 108.014 ms 107.482 ms
9 ash-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.115.148) 107.710 ms ash-b1-link.telia.net (62.115.113.207) 111.558 ms ash-b1-link.telia.net (80.91.252.44) 107.792 ms
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--2015-12-04 22:08:00-- https://dumps.wikimedia.org/other/static_html_dumps/2008-06/it/wikipedia-it-html.tar.7z
Resolving dumps.wikimedia.org... 208.80.154.11, 2620:0:861:1:208:80:154:11
Connecting to dumps.wikimedia.org|208.80.154.11|:443... connected.
HTTP request sent, awaiting response... 200 OK
Length: 1743914079 (1.6G) [application/x-7z-compressed]
Saving to: “/dev/null”
16% [===============> ] 285,720,335 434K/s eta 66m 51s
```