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Re: Broadband speed testing...
- Subject: Re: Broadband speed testing...
- From: "domdevitto" <dom@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Tue, 01 Jan 2013 21:23:56 -0000
--- In ukha_d@xxxxxxx, Pankaj Dhokia <ukha@...> wrote:
>
> I've heard stories where Virgin have massive traffic shaping going on
but traffic to sites like speed test have high priority giving false hopes.
Nope, I'm a VM employee, but they just throttle 'heavy' use and certain
bulk-download protocols.
http://help.virginmedia.com/system/selfservice.controller?CMD=VIEW_ARTICLE&ARTICLE_ID=2781&CURRENT_CMD=SEARCH&CONFIGURATION=1002&PARTITION_ID=1&USERTYPE=1&LANGUAGE=en&COUNTY=us&VM_CUSTOMER_TYPE=Cable
Explains the complexities.
No sites are 'sped-up'.
One way to simply check is to download from one of the VM mirrors:
http://mirrors.virginmedia.com/
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