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Originally Posted by telfordcable
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Or it could be because they want those servers to be fast, responsive and accurate for their engineers who use them to test new connections rather than what happened when the details to the speed testers went public.
Customers, mostly with no issues at all beyond a need to find faults and an addiction to speed tests, caned the test boxes and when engineers came to test customer connections they were unreliable due to load on the servers.
I have to admit I really don't understand the obsession with knowing exactly how fast the connection is if it browses fast, streams smoothly, games responsively and is there or there abouts when doing normal downloading.
EDIT: Just for you Telford - this is spot on every time
