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Re: Edu versus Speakeasy Speedtest

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bret Clark)
Fri Apr 30 09:02:09 2010

Date: Fri, 30 Apr 2010 09:01:23 -0400
From: Bret Clark <bclark@spectraaccess.com>
To: nanog@nanog.org
In-Reply-To: <4BDAD1C4.9030300@hvnc.net>
Errors-To: nanog-bounces+nanog.discuss=bloom-picayune.mit.edu@nanog.org

Jeff wrote:
>
> The problem is the Faculty^Wusers are smart, but not experienced in 
> networking, so they buy into the marketing and eye candy of the speed 
> dials on the Speakeasy and assorted speed testing tool sites. 
Not just them, we are constantly dealing with our new HS users who go to 
those sites then call us to complain that they are not getting the speed 
they are suppose to get...ugh! It's like clock work, a new circuit goes 
in and a few hours later we're getting the old "I went to 
Speakeasy...blah blah blah"!

Bret


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