Download the FCC Speed Test App

Re:Download the FCC Speed Test App by sliken on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @03:18AM (#26803975)

Heh, sure, but that already happens with various bandwidth sites.

I've tried to replicate various bandwidth tests and failed miserably. Then tried a bandwidth test over VPN (to hide it from the ISP) and then got numbers matching my real world tests.

It works the opposite way as well, when Comcast was blackmailing Netflix you'd get terrible bandwidth, unless you used a VPN to hide your traffic.

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Re:Download the FCC Speed Test App by Daneel_ on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @04:51AM (#26804557)

Google has a speed test built in now, which is difficult for ISPs to carve out. Just google for ‘speed test’ and it shows up as a card at the top of the page.

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Re:Download the FCC Speed Test App by Mordisquitos on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @04:31AM (#26804436)

>It works the opposite way as well, when Comcast was blackmailing Netflix you'd get terrible bandwidth, unless you used a VPN to hide your traffic.

This bit here is the real smoking gun. Without it, the fact that you got worse bandwidth test results when using a VPN is wholly unconvincing—who's to say that it wasn't due to your VPN's own limitations?

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Re:Download the FCC Speed Test App by notamy on Wednesday April 14, 2021 @06:53AM (#26805332)

I think you might have misread -- it's saying that the bandwidth was awful UNLESS using a VPN, i.e. no VPN was the slower option.

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