Charter does this too.. It's standard practice lately for cable providers. It makes them look better and it helps out the end user by allowing them to "burst" small amounts of data (like websites). This is a function of traffic shaping, I dont see any harm in it. Just test your connection speed with real world application instead of these speedtest sites. You will get a lot better picture of how fast and "stable" your clients connection is if you download a 100mb file from an ftp site and then put it back up there. You will be able to see how much jitter they have in their connection and work out an average speed.

I once heard that McDonalds is really a Microsoft sub-concious mind controlling centre. They place what is called 'food poison' into Chicken McNuggets which in turn makes you delude yourself into trusting Microsoft. All paranoid delusions aside, isn't SCO being sued for using unix code segments in their linux flavour...

Its simply a question of timing. Microsoft knows it can't win SCO's lawsuit against IBM/Linux but it serves as a bigger threat than SCO did as a delay-engine. If it can tie things up in litegation, its succeeded. I find it humorous this happened not long after/before Ellison was quoted as saying Microsoft was on its last leg.