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I just got a rating of 240 kbps using a 56k iMac internal modem over AO-Hell (the shame!) - two smiley faces and cheering appaluse, which made this cynical old Hector suspicious immediately!
I'm wondering, in addition to the latency factor that you sagely pointed out, whether page cacheing also has anything to do with it?
If the page is revisited and is already in the user's cache, then the d/l speed is going to be exagerrated, surely? Or am I completely misuderstanding how the test is applied?
I get the feeling the Beeline test is perhaps a bit, well, gimmicky.
Jx