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Re:Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speed... by kiwijamo on Sunday April 17, 2022 @06:10PM (#31064975)
In New Zealand it is somewhat well known that our local fibre providers actually provisions each connection for slightly more than the agreed speed. E.g. 100mbits is usually provisioned at around 110mbits. So our speed tests are usually just over 100mbits (due to TCP etc overheads taking some of the overprovisoned parts). Wonder if that is what is happening to you.
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Re:Ask HN: Internet magically gets faster when opening speed... by lostlogin on Monday April 18, 2022 @03:19AM (#31068210)
This seems to fall off at gigabit, but I’d love to test with 2, 4 or 8gbps which Orcon (and maybe others) are offering.

My ONT only supports gigabit out, so I can’t test faster options. That said, fast.com has told me I’m getting 1.2gbps recently…

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