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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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