re: U.S. internet speeds rose nearly 40 percent this year

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All of that doesn’t matter if the source doesn’t have the bandwidth for the traffic and limits the output speeds to handle the traffic. That is how it works.

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Ding ding.

This only shows physical capability of hardware now. And you KNOW ISPs would prefer to place major big name speed test services in the “fast lane.”

Knowing you can hit 100 mpbs in real world scenarios won’t make you feel better if you have Comcast and Netflix gets de facto blocked again (throttling consumer traffic to Netflix to ~2.5 mpbs regardless of service level is what started this mess on the large scale. And be aware it wasn’t that Netflix needed to up their service: Comcast stifled the traffic when it entered their network so it didn’t matter what bandwidth came out of their servers).