<p>All ISPs know the speedtest sites. Comcast is known to privide priority routing.</p>
<div class="gmail_quote">On Jan 14, 2012 7:53 PM, "Drifter" <<a href="mailto:drifter@oppositelock.org">drifter@oppositelock.org</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
On Saturday, January 14, 2012 05:36:53 pm Kirsa wrote:<br>
> I would not be surprised if you experienced a similar speed issue next<br>
> Friday though... On almost any residential cable node Friday 5-12pm is<br>
> peak time and has the most utilization of the entire week. So that you<br>
> were down to 4mbit/s on Friday evening and 2mbit/s by Friday night<br>
> sounds suspiciously like congestion to me, despite the faulty<br>
> equipment.<br>
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I had the same speed issues at 9 am Saturday morning. Snail-slow download<br>
speeds continued all day Saturday until I replaced the defective hub.<br>
Then: BINGO! full speed returned. In fact, a speed about 19:45 Saturday<br>
(Speakeasy's test) returned the rather unbelievable download speed of<br>
40.59 mbs! The upload speed was only 4.16. Obviously some sort of burst<br>
speed. Does Comcast have some way to know when I access a speed test site<br>
and goose the speed for a few seconds?<br>
<br>
Sean<br>
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