[Landing Node] QDE Netherlands xTom Native IP | Black Friday Flash Deal | 9.95 EUR/Year | Amsterdam | International Connectivity Review

I bought a QDE Black Friday flash-sale plan to see how it performs.

Contents

1. Configuration
2. Node Quality
3. Streaming unlock
4. itdog test
5. International connectivity
6. Summary

1. Configuration

Provider website: https://qde.com

🔗 Quick links

upstreamxTom

2. Node Quality

bash <(curl -sL https://run.NodeQuality.com)

💻Basic information

Performance is actually fine; it comes with two cores.

Basic System Information:
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Uptime     : 0 days, 3 hours, 8 minutes
Processor  : Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2690 v4 @ 2.60GHz
CPU cores  : 2 @ 2599.996 MHz
AES-NI     : ✔ Enabled
VM-x/AMD-V : ✔ Enabled
RAM        : 929.7 MiB
Swap       : 571.0 MiB
Disk       : 16.0 GiB
Distro     : Debian GNU/Linux 12 (bookworm)
Kernel     : 6.12.57+deb13-cloud-amd64
VM Type    : STANDARD PC (Q35 + ICH9, 2009)
IPv4/IPv6  : ✔ Online / ✔ Online

IPv6 Network Information:
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ISP        : Hizakura B.V.
ASN        : AS210429 Hizakura B.V.
Host       : Hizakura B.V
Location   : Amsterdam, North Holland (NH)
Country    : Netherlands

fio Disk Speed Tests (Mixed R/W 50/50) (Partition -):
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Block Size | 4k            (IOPS) | 64k           (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 228.27 MB/s  (57.0k) | 1.43 GB/s    (22.4k)
Write      | 228.87 MB/s  (57.2k) | 1.44 GB/s    (22.5k)
Total      | 457.14 MB/s (114.2k) | 2.87 GB/s    (44.9k)
           |                      |                     
Block Size | 512k          (IOPS) | 1m            (IOPS)
  ------   | ---            ----  | ----           ---- 
Read       | 1.89 GB/s     (3.6k) | 1.86 GB/s     (1.8k)
Write      | 1.99 GB/s     (3.8k) | 1.98 GB/s     (1.9k)
Total      | 3.88 GB/s     (7.5k) | 3.84 GB/s     (3.7k)

Geekbench 5 Benchmark Test:
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Test            | Value                         
                |                               
Single Core     | 768                           
Multi Core      | 1497                          
Full Test       | https://browser.geekbench.com/v5/cpu/23939497

 SysBench CPU Test (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
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 1 Thread Test (Single Core) Score:          989 Scores
 2 Thread Test (Multi-Core) Score:          1945 Scores
 SysBench Memory Test (Fast Mode, 1-Pass @ 5sec)
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 Single-thread Read Test:          19996.19 MB/s
 Single-thread Write Test:          14849.04 MB/s

🎬IP quality

Native IP, good unlocking.

IPv4	IPv6

🌐Network quality

IPv4	IPv6

📍Return route

IPv4	IPv6

3. Streaming unlock

bash <(curl -L -s check.unlock.media)

IPv4	IPv6

4. TCP PING（itdog.cn，2025-11-30 22:00）

During evening peak, as measured by the NQ script, direct-connection latency is very high, but the packet-loss rate is not high. Unicom jitter is much lower than the other two major carriers.

China Telecom	China Unicom	China Mobile

5. International connectivity

Europe route-machine speed tests

Upload corresponds to return-route speed. BandwagonHost return speed seems average, testing below 500Mbps, which naturally affects mainland return speed when wrapped through a landing node. SaltyFish has no such issue.

International speed tests

Upload can reach 1G, which is good; pulling from Hong Kong may have relatively high latency.

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Mainland premium-network speed tests

Beijing 9929 direct connection is still good.

Test records

Hong Kong-Europe routes

DMIT is using GSL to Europe again. Although the three CTC-series machines all use RETN outbound, this time only BAGE HKS uses RETN return to Hong Kong, and its latency is clearly lower than the other two, though speed did not get going. YxVM uses RETN return but detours via Singapore. Halo (Akari) does not use RETN at all.

🇭🇰 DMIT <-> 🇳🇱 QDE	🇭🇰 RFCHOST JINX <-> 🇳🇱 QDE	🇭🇰 BAGE HKS <-> 🇳🇱 QDE	🇭🇰 YxVM <-> 🇳🇱 QDE	🇭🇰 Halo STD <-> 🇳🇱 QDE
Outbound	Outbound	Outbound	Outbound	Outbound
Return	Return	Return	Return	Return

6. Summary

A pretty good Europe landing-node machine. It is best paired with a Europe route machine or Beijing 9929. If you care about latency, I do not recommend direct connection. Pulling directly from Hong Kong has speed, but latency measured this time is a bit high.

7. About the tests

The machines tested in this article, including all machines used for iPerf3 speed tests, were purchased at my own expense. Results may be time-sensitive.
Kernel parameters of the tested machines (/etc/sysctl.conf) are as follows

fs.file-max = 6815744
net.ipv4.tcp_no_metrics_save=1
net.ipv4.tcp_ecn=0
net.ipv4.tcp_frto=0
net.ipv4.tcp_mtu_probing=0
net.ipv4.tcp_rfc1337=0
net.ipv4.tcp_sack=1
net.ipv4.tcp_fack=1
net.ipv4.tcp_window_scaling=1
net.ipv4.tcp_adv_win_scale=1
net.ipv4.tcp_moderate_rcvbuf=1
net.core.rmem_max=33554432
net.core.wmem_max=33554432
net.ipv4.tcp_rmem=4096 87380 33554432
net.ipv4.tcp_wmem=4096 16384 33554432
net.ipv4.udp_rmem_min=8192
net.ipv4.udp_wmem_min=8192
net.ipv4.ip_forward=1
net.ipv4.conf.all.route_localnet=1
net.ipv4.conf.all.forwarding=1
net.ipv4.conf.default.forwarding=1
net.core.default_qdisc=fq
net.ipv4.tcp_congestion_control=bbr
net.ipv6.conf.all.forwarding=1
net.ipv6.conf.default.forwarding=1