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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?
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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?
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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.