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AT&T in AppleStores

Just for fun, when I was in an AppleStore this week, I performed a network speediest on one of their MacBook Air's - and was surprised to discover that AT&T was the service provider, at 30Mb downstream.

This would be no surprise if the AppleStore in question was in the USA and not the UK.

However, given that AT&T is Apple's UK service provider, and that inherently the fibre infrastructure is in in place to provide the service by AT&T, my question is: why isn't AT&T Fibre available to the rest of us in the UK?
 
Hmmm well that's assuming that the fibre itself has come from AT&T. I know they run a large network of UK Wi-Fi hotspots but I wasn't aware that they owned/built the fibre lines that fed those too, at least not directly. Was your test wireless or wifi?
 
I am making a personal assumption that fibre is the backbone of the service used in this particular AppleStore.

I used the speedtest.net application for my 'experiment'.

I was not aware that wifi was implemented on the Mac in question. I will try it again when I next visit an AppleStore.
 
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Could it not be a form of VPN (or some other shiny software of the like built by Apple)?
 
More likely speedtest.net is just reporting the ISP wrongly. Ive been with a couple of ISPs which speedtest.net never used to be right about.

The easiest and accurate way to tell would be make a note of the IP address reported at the Apple store and whack that into a whois database.
 
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