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by ngoldbaum 4128 days ago
To be fair, I've seen ISPs give special treatment for packets coming from speedtest.net. I'm looking at you Comcast.
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Yes I've noticed the same thing. I ended up rolling my own test just to verify. I wish I was surprised comcast does this, but they totally do.
Doesn't speedtest use lots of mirrors that have different IPs and hostnames?