ok, the test could be bogus. I just tried it on 3 different machines all with different configurations of cpu/ram/hd etc and the results varied from 8-13Mb/s, the machine config definitely plays a part. (the tests were within a couple of minutes of each other) Granted I'm on Optimum so it's shared and one of my neighbors could have affected the #'s, I'll run it again tomorrow and see what I get.
here's the result from my desktop:
