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Originally Posted by pedantic
Measured using every browser you can think of, and a few ftp programs too. It may be down to the fact that my Rwin is set relatively high, because I use websites that are located in the U.S so latency can be an issue. May be you don't see it to the degree I do, because of BT's infamous traffic shaping. 
As I say, it doesn't last that long, a second or two, but that would be enough for the speedtest.net servers, as it's a very quick test. Too quick, as it turns out. |
Browser speeds are inaccurate especially at start of file downloads and on small files. I have seen some ftp clients like ftprush that report speed badly. Its physically impossible for a line to burst higher then its capacity.