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This is not necessarily true. It’s trivial for an isp to exempt Speedtest.net traffic so it doesn’t get throttled while the rest of your traffic does. It’s unl
by kortilla 5y ago
This is not necessarily true. It’s trivial for an isp to exempt Speedtest.net traffic so it doesn’t get throttled while the rest of your traffic does.
It’s unlikely they would do something more complex like lifting all traffic limits once a connection to Speedtest.net opens.
- withinboredom 5y agoI’m suspicious that what they’re saying is true. If so, a simple curl to the site would be all that is needed without running a full speed test. It’d be great if they could be more methodical and track down what’s really going on. I’d also wouldn’t be surprised to see an ISP doing something like this, but at the same time, it’s much more likely to be networking issues on the consumer’s side than a malicious ISP imho.
- bb88 5y agoI'm not. This would not be the first time ISPs have lied to consumers about their service. https://stopthecap.com/ https://stopthecap.com/
- hedora 5y agoAt least in the old days, they'd have to unthrottle everything to get decent speedtest numbers. The cable modems the ISP issued around here had FIFO network buffers capable of buffering 5-10 seconds of traffic. So, any slow connection would stop the entire household from having decent internet.