[ale] Diagnostic help needed

[Jim Kinney]

All ISPs know the speedtest sites. Comcast is known to privide priority
routing.
On Jan 14, 2012 7:53 PM, "Drifter" <drifter at oppositelock.org> wrote:

> On Saturday, January 14, 2012 05:36:53 pm Kirsa wrote:
> > I would not be surprised if you experienced a similar speed issue next
> > Friday though... On almost any residential cable node Friday 5-12pm is
> > peak time and has the most utilization of the entire week. So that you
> > were down to 4mbit/s on Friday evening and 2mbit/s by Friday night
> > sounds suspiciously like congestion to me, despite the faulty
> > equipment.
> [Rest trimmed for brevity.]
>
> I had the same speed issues at 9 am Saturday morning. Snail-slow download
> speeds continued all day Saturday until I replaced the defective hub.
> Then: BINGO! full speed returned.  In fact, a speed about 19:45 Saturday
> (Speakeasy's test) returned the rather unbelievable download speed of
> 40.59 mbs! The upload speed was only 4.16. Obviously some sort of burst
> speed. Does Comcast have some way to know when I access a speed test site
> and goose the speed for a few seconds?
>
> Sean
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