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[-] Thordros@hexbear.net 4 points 4 months ago* (last edited 4 months ago)

As somebody who once worked at an ISP: they absolutely do that, and it isn't illegal. In fact, ISP's host many of Ookla's speedtest servers. The less infrastructure your test needs to go through, the better the results will be—there's nothing faster than a network that's communicating with itself.

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