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This is one feature I like from my Wifi router. It does regular speed tests and tracks the results over time. I like to think it reminds my ISP that I want the speed I'm paying for.

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Is that with dd-wrt or something similar? I heavily doubt you'd get that feature on an ISP router :-)

Unifi routers do this, for sure.

if this is theoretically saturating your bandwidth doesn't this lead to intermittent poor performance from your connected devices?

Saturating download can prevent acks from getting through in some cases on some mediums. So throttling download a bit speeds everything else up.

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