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Comment Re:Liberty Dollar (Score 1) 629

by msebast on Monday June 02, 2008 @04:38PM (#23631169) Attached to: Nominations Open For "Most Likely to be Shut Down By Government"

Inventing your own currency is probably OK.
Stamping "USA" on it and making it resemble official US currency is rather stupid.
People who buy paper, supposedly backed by actual precious metal, from a website, aren't really thinking straight. Either the government or a con artist would have made this thing fall apart sooner or later.

Comcast Cheating On Bandwidth Testing? 287

Posted by kdawson on Tuesday February 19, 2008 @09:06AM from the tuning-for-the-benchmark dept.

dynamo52 writes "I'm a freelance network admin serving mainly small business clients. Over the last few months, I have noticed that any time I run any type of bandwidth testing for clients with Comcast accounts, the results have been amazingly fast — with some connections, Speakeasy will report up to 15 Mbps down and 4 Mbps up. Of course, clients get nowhere near this performance in everyday usage. (This can be quite annoying when trying to determine whether a client needs to switch over to a T1 or if their current ISP will suffice.) Upon further investigation, it appears that Comcast is delivering this bandwidth only for a few seconds after any new request and it is immediately throttled down. Doing a download and upload test using a significantly large file (100+ MB) yields results more in line with everyday usage experience, usually about 1.2 Mbps down and about 250 Kbps up (but it varies). Is there any valid reason why Comcast would front-load transfers in this way, or is it merely an effort to prevent end-users from being able to assess their bandwidth accurately? Does anybody know of other ISPs using similar practices?"

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