My server got 900 megs down, but only like 12 megs up. The idea I came up with was to proxy my speed test through a fast web server. So that if I called and complained about my slow Internet, they'd say "go to and see for yourself that you're getting your 15-20 megs down that you're paying for" when instead, they're cheating on speed tests and slowing me down on every other site in the world. I was reasonably sure that Time Warner Cable was using traffic shaping to "put on a good show" for, and throttling my network speeds for all the other sites. all of the links take a while to load, and then all of a sudden they all load at the exact same time. So if I'm on Reddit, and click to expand a dozen imgur links with my RES extension. It seems also that on the general Internet, the entire network drops in pulses every 30 seconds for 5 seconds at a time. I'm using Google's DNS (because Time Warner Cable's have been absolutely useless, like making me wait several minutes just to resolve a domain name), so that's not part of the problem either. I pay about $39 a month for either 15 Mbps down or 20 (I don't remember which), and when I run speed tests on sites such as, I always get a download speed between 15 and 20, usually around 17 on average.īut, the entire rest of the Internet totally sucks. ![]() ![]() My ISP in Los Angeles is Time Warner Cable, and I'm pretty sure they're cheating on my speed tests.
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