[ale] speedtest

[Jamey Owens]

Sandvine is the traffic shaping product Comcast has been in the news again
and again for using the last couple of years.  A'la net neutrality and the
no-win situation it brought with it.

http://www.sandvine.com/products/


On Sat, May 1, 2010 at 9:44 PM, Geoffrey <lists at serioustechnology.com>wrote:

> 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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