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While updating php using homebrew I noticed that if I used mtr to ping the source of the file, the download speed would increase dramatically (on the order of 3 - 4 times faster).
Why would this happen?
darronz
Posted 2014-06-23T09:51:43.630
Reputation: 121
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An educated guess: Your provider is cheating you. It is not unheard of that some providers increase the download speed once the URL contains the word speedtest. Since many speed tests also do a ping test, and a good ping is generally seen as a quality characteristic of a connection, the network equipment might shape the traffic in such a way that you get good ping results, resulting in higher download speeds.
(Another source for the speedtest URL thing in German)
Obviously, this is not the only possible answer.
Benedikt
Posted 2014-06-23T09:51:43.630
Reputation: 88