[ale] speedtest

[Geoffrey]

Jim Popovitch wrote:
> On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 21:16, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com> wrote:
>> Anyone have any idea why one speedtest website would be consistently
>> high whereas another would be return sporadic results?
> 
> IMHO, ISPs provide great access from users to speed test hosts that
> they know and care about.   For instance if some press story comes out
> about speedtest.net, then every comcast user will see wonderful
> results from that site for a while.   I would be $$ that there is no
> sandvine equipment between a comcast user and speedtest.net. ;-)

My service is AT&T Uverse.  speedtest.net has great results, dslreports 
and speakeasy.net do not.

Care to expand on sandvine?

> 
> -Jim P.
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Until later, Geoffrey

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