Well, using a different browser, I get a download speed of 8.57 Mbps, and an upload speed of 720 kbps.

CenturyLink calls this “high speed Internet.”

Electronic Frontier Foundation explains why tech firms like Google or Facebook actually won’t do much to fight this: primarily because they can afford to pay off companies to provide them with good service. They have no incentive to pay for future competition by start up firms.

A Lump of Coal for the Internet’s Stocking