[ale] speed test interest.

[Jim Kinney]

It is not uncommon for an ISP to provide priority routing for speedtest
sites for their customers. They may even be mirroring it internally. I think
it's dirty and underhanded but I've seen it happen.

On Wed, Jul 14, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Atlanta Geek <atlantageek at gmail.com>wrote:

> So in our new home we are trying to go without cable & satellite. We
> have DSL only service from att and have not been impressed.  I assumed
> that we were spoiled by cable modems and Uverse.
>
> I checked out speedtest.net and strangely enough the dsl performance
> was exactly what was purchased.  6 Mbps down 0.25 Mbps up. Even when
> everything else seemed to be crawling speedtest was perfect.
>
> Today I looked for an alternative to speedtest.net and found a few on
> google.
> And after trying 3 or 4 speedtests they all are giving me half the
> download speed as speedtest.net
>
> Im wondering if AT&T is giving speedtest.net priority?
>
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