Well.. upon further review, I think my modem tweaking was just a coincidence. Tonight I seem to get more or less the same results with the default Windows settings vs the tweaked ones. Think I got too excited. In my haste, I neglected to change back to the default settings to see if the tests went back down, and then change back to the tweaked settings to see if they sped back up again. Dumb on my part… 
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