[ale] Diagnostic help needed

[Mike Harrison]

On Sat, 14 Jan 2012, Drifter wrote:
> speed. Does Comcast have some way to know when I access a speed test site
> and goose the speed for a few seconds?

There is an initial burst (turbo mode) on Comcast and many other ISP's
for the first ??? kb/mb/gb. It is very noticible when doing command
line FTP (with hash) or any other transfer with a real speed indicator.
Many speed indicators are "softened"..