Re:Temporary boost in download speed? (Score 3, Informative)

I'd mod you up, but I feel compelled to reply ... since I'm amazed nobody has mentioned this.

I just signed up for Time Warner 'net myself, and when the dude was checking the signal he mentioned something about how there's a 25Mbit "boost" that people get at random. I didn't get a chance to ask many questions about it, but he said that it wasn't just an ISP-level cache ... you're actually given 25Mbit of bandwidth for a breif amount of time. That could very well be what we're seeing here, as the numbers seem to align.