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  1. CA3LE

    Beta Testers Welcome

    I have some new tools coming out! And I mean NEW! If you'd like to get an invite when a new Beta is available simply vote on this topic. Currently no ETA but development is moving quickly. I'd like people who are willing to provide feedback but it's not necessary. Just running the program will give me a lot of useful information.
    6 points
  2. My beta gives anyone the ability to run TMN on any computer they'd like. Run it locally on a Docker images I've prepared for you or install it on any web sever, with or without SSL. It only takes 2 files, a total of 1800 bytes of code on your end. What speed will you see between two wired 1 GbE? Exactly what you'd expect to see, watch for yourself. tmn-on-my-server.mp4 The Mac and Windows machines are fairly distant, non-direct routes. The connection traverses 2 switches, then the router, then another switch also adding in about 100 ft of cable before it arrives. Not lab conditions, I wanted all of those real world variables. If you inspect I think you'll agree, TMN's results are pretty exact. tl&dr So average 916 Mbps | 904 Mbps. Adding 6% network overhead you get to 971 Mbps | 958 Mbps. Which is right in line with what we see coming across the interface in reality. I did the same LAN testing when developing the current version (v18) you're using now, always do. But now I'm giving the ability to do it yourself, super quick. ... I've also done that before but not like this. This is very different. Cut and paste a few commands into Terminal or PowerShell and you're running local tests on all your devices in a few seconds. You can also audit all of the code and understand the entire container in just a few seconds. Pretty excited to share that with you all. Curious how people will use it.
    5 points
  3. Stank_Ho

    Happy Turkey Day!

    I hope everyone enjoyed Family, football and food. Peace
    4 points
  4. cholla

    Happy Turkey Day!

    Same from me . God bless all of you. Don't eat until you explode.
    4 points
  5. Welcome! If you go to My Settings you can add an identifier. Select something like "Location 1" when you're connected to router #1... then "Location 2" for the second. You can then filter your results by identifier under My Results. Let me know if this helps.
    3 points
  6. xs1

    Happy Turkey Day!

    To you's & your family!
    3 points
  7. CA3LE

    Happy Turkey Day!

    Happy Thanksgiving everyone!
    3 points
  8. I thought this was kinda funny, did a combined test and got the exact same 767.2Mbps on both upload and download. Had to giggle at this one.
    3 points
  9. Based on how the Beta seems to function, I would think it would be a prime opportunity to add a "dual" test, which simultaneously runs both upload and download. This would be nice for testing in enterprises that have their own data-centers and host VPN/Web/etc. traffic, as they can find out what types of bandwidth carving they should do. I.e., if my Buckeye 1-gig fiber supports a full-duplex 1-gig, then I don't have to worry as much about having a good upload speed when someone else is using my network. But if it's a half-duplex 1-gig, then it changes how I might want to carve out bandwidth. Just a thought, would be an interesting metric to add. Could be a purple double-arrow in the results that indicates the combined speed as well, since it's not a pure upload/download, but a "dual" / "simultaneous" / "mixed" test.
    3 points
  10. CA3LE

    Introduction to the BETA!

    Instructions to Enable the Beta are in the Private area. The beta is private but members with access are allowed to share instructions. Please use this public forum for all threads related to Beta 23. If you encounter any issues or bugs please copy the URL in your browser and include it with your post. This helps reproduce the issue. Screen recordings are also very helpful. Start new topic Happy Testing!
    3 points
  11. phlppfschr

    Trying Out Beta

    Wel that was fast , gonna try out right now
    2 points
  12. phred

    Trying Out Beta

    I like it. Both are good. After a lot of testing and tweaking I've got the maximum speed out of my connection: about 10% more than the plan (a $10/month one) is supposed to supply. testmy.net was a big help. It might be slow for a lot of people, but it suits my needs. Thanks
    2 points
  13. cholla

    Happy Turkey Day!

    CA3LE thanks for combining my posts the .GIF was an afterthought. Since Thanksgiving is finished for this year I thought I would link an old topic, I must have PMed water the complete instructions. I though they were all in the topic but they were not. Any way she followed them close enough & said her turkey turned out well. I've cooked about 36 more turkeys this way since the topic. I wish I still had the complete instructions written. I do not need them for myself but if anyone else wanted them. https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/9268-turkey-time-and-a-huge-waste-of-money/#comment-96374
    2 points
  14. cholla

    test speed error

    CA3LE I decided to install a fresh Firefox portable also. Something must have corrupted this browser also. The fresh copy seems to work for the tests. I ran my antivirus & it did not find anything. So I do not know why the portable browsers got corrupted. For right now the problem is gone. I also tried the corrupt version again & it has the lag problem. So it has to be a corrupt file in it.
    2 points
  15. Eventually, T-Mobile got whatever was needed with the local towers done. It STILL fluctuates wildly, but it USUALLY stays at a speed that makes things usable. At good times it runs quite well. It's better than the DSL we had. and cheaper. Unfortunately, I guess that makes the best answer is to keep calling T-Mobile when it sucks, go through umpteen "support" people, generally be a pain in the *ss, and have graphs like the above that show how inconsistent their service is. With a little luck, after 4 - 5 months, hopefully they'll get things to the point where the service doesn't drop to zero, and will mostly work most of the time! If you're lucky, it'll work well enough you rarely get buffering on the 480p tv, and downloads will be reasonably fast.
    2 points
  16. Looks like they're in Pakistan. blackcobracatcher's Speed Test Results If your only seeing 2-8 Mbps here at TestMy.net then chances are you don't really have 500 Mbps. You may see great speed nearby but the internet tends to be everywhere. πŸ€” Imagine this, I'm in Pakistan and I setup a 10 Gbps network in my neighborhood and get all of my 200+ neighbors to sign up. They're all super excited because after I get them connected I show them they're getting 10 Gbps using my speed test (testing against servers hosted over at my house... shhh, don't tell them that). Imagine I have 4 connections out, a few 10 Gbps connections that connect me to other local/regional ISPs but I only have 1x10 Gbps that peers well internationally. Depending on the routing, time of day and what the other neighbors are doing a customer might get 10 Gbps but may also hit the bottleneck of those connections out of the network. This is the same thing ISPs do all over the world. They oversell network capacity. You're always going to lose speed at distance but higher quality hosts/connections will take better, more direct routes and have higher capacity. You definitely shouldn't drop to 2% of the connection speed. And if that's what TestMy.net is showing you, that's what you're really getting. At least to and from the location you have selected (Florida). Here's my connection speed nearby, I'm in Colorado Springs - testing Colorado Springs TestMy.net Test ID : 2h874_xfA.hbMDDdqXt And here's to my hardest to reach locale, India. TestMy.net Test ID : L5axksd8f.xOMgtA8Sl So I'm running at 28% Download and 47% Upload I usually get my worst connection speeds to India. Testing against UK, still international and about 5000 miles I get better results. TestMy.net Test ID : ZwxVufpxD.lJx2Jf4FV 50% Download and 69% Upload. And I usually see better results than that. ?t=u&l=50&z=65&q=CA3LE's Speed Test Results This is my consumer home connection, using commercial connections gives much better results at distance. You're hitting a bottleneck somewhere. Other speed tests may paint a different picture. You should probably stop using them. Those other tests are often made by entities who have an interest in showing you a better result. I don't. I really don't care how you score. I only care to show you the truth in the best way I know. When you test at TestMy.net the servers are hosted under the most popular VPS hosts, currently Vultr is carrying the majority of my bandwidth (unbiased hosting). Where other speed tests are reported to remove certain portions of the result and highlight others; which often makes things appear faster, TestMy.net always calculates your result simply and transparently using size/time = speed. Let me put it this way, I wish everyone could see and understand the code behind TestMy.net. If you did you'd know that it's actually impossible for it to show you 8 Mbps unless you actually have 8 Mbps. The test wants to run full throttle, unless it's being restricted in some way. So it HAS to be restricted to get the results you're seeing. My guess is a bottleneck coming out of your ISP and Pakistan but it could be a number of issues that other tests for some reason never seem to notice. But if it's slowing down TestMy.net, you're being slowed down. Other speed tests obviously have different goals than TestMy.net. As @xs1 said, try selecting different mirrors. You may get better results on a server closer to you but you still shouldn't be getting such a poor result to Florida. Run some tests against IN, UK and DE to see what your results look like. Let me know when you're done and I'll post your results here in the forum for you.
    2 points
  17. pothound

    Hello from the Caribbean

    Waving from the sunny Island of Grenada. It is lovely to be far away from bigger lands unless it comes to Internet. πŸ˜† Hope to find answers here with regards to my PING issues. My ISP seems to be lost... pothoun
    2 points
  18. Click [Customize] then select 500 MB max. I may change the default after we get going.
    2 points
  19. With a slower upload speed or higher latency it interferes with the normal flow. If the requests are lagged it will affect the result. With 100+ smaller requests the connection has to negotiate each one. The latency and upload can effect this. This will be less pronounced with linear because we don't have to keep initiating requests over and over. I went around and around with this one, trying to get those connections to ramp up quicker. Originally I was trying to make the test ramp up quicker by adjusting test parameters for that situation. Then realized that it's only doing what it's supposed to do. This happens when the connection is weak, it's only showing you what happened. If something slows down the requests or the process... it affects the end result. So keep in mind when you're using the beta, it's splitting the multithread process much more than my previous version. 100 elements for < 1MB tests and 200 elements beyond that, where the production multithread at 10MB you only open 12 threads and 200MB opens 30 threads. Big difference. The beta is more demanding. The difference is before I adjusted the process to meet the connection. Smaller tests were done with less elements. I've decided going forward that TMN shouldn't scale based on the connection, rather measure every connection the same. As the linear test does. Remember I'm only talking about the multithread process. The beta upload test works the same way, 100 and 200 elements. A couple of things to can do. Click [customize] and Enable Linear Boost or test linear on connections like that one. I've seen that too, always on crappy connections. I think you're right about it being due to packet loss. I'm going to see about detecting when a thread gets stuck like that and then reinitiate that thread and report the event in the results. It's all about how the data is being rendered. The beta is an entirely new test with different variables. These new variables seem to favor more modern connection types because they're better designed for this type of load. A bunch of small requests may be harder to render in some cases than a few large ones. But that's what we're here to test.
    2 points
  20. Hey there, fellow Testmynet users! 😊 I'm thrilled to be a part of this awesome forum, discussing all things speed tests and bandwidth with all of you. You can call me Catbear 🐱🐻 – it's a fun combo! I hail from the vicinity of Hamburg, Germany, and at 25 years old, I'm still relatively young. Technology and internet connections have always fascinated me. πŸ’»πŸŒ Recently, I decided to bid farewell to my old internet connection and upgrade to a brand-new Cable internet line. The whole experience of installing it alongside the technician was a rollercoaster ride of excitement, opening up a whole new world of possibilities! πŸš€πŸ”§ My provider now offers an incredible speed of up to 1150 Mbps! On average, I'm hitting around 1100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up – mind-blowing, right? It's the fastest connection I've ever experienced, and I can't wait to explore all the opportunities it brings. πŸ˜πŸ’¨ To tap into this high-speed connection, I've got a snazzy 2.5Gbit network card, paving the way to the online wonderland. My trusty router is the FritzBox 6690, which has been a reliable companion so far. πŸ“ΆπŸ’Ό I'm stoked to share my experiences with all of you in this forum and learn from your stories as well. If any of you use similar tech or have tackled similar challenges, I'm here to help with any questions or advice. Let's exchange ideas and make the most of this tech-savvy community! πŸ’¬πŸ€ Once again, a big thank you for welcoming me into this fantastic community. I'm excited to see what the future holds for internet connections and technology for all of us. πŸŒŸπŸš€ Best regards, Catbear 🐱🐻
    2 points
  21. I am not sure if I messed up the designation between B and b (Bits and Bytes). I did find the problem and I was shocked to be honest, my ASUS Strix Z-490 E Gaming MB has VI and I found it had the OBS Streaming set to Low which I guess was causing all the problems. I changed that setting to extreme (which is what iRacing is set at) I set the OBS to 10000 kbps and since then I have not had a single issue of dropped anything and am in the bitrate suggested for 3440x1440 If anything changes or I find I start getting more dropped frames I will update this thread
    2 points
  22. Well then you might be amused by this: Crank the volume to 11. https://www.tcw.org/Got%20the%20Spectrum%20Blues.mp3 Got the Spectrum Blues.mp3
    2 points
  23. wintroub

    Trouble at your end?

    I followed your advice to reboot modem, router, computer. Speeds now back to normal in Firefox, my default. Also normal in Chrome and Edge, which I had not tested before. Thank you. Terry 6/26/23
    2 points
  24. Admin, If you send me your email address to the email address I used to register at your site, or just email me, I will bcc copy you on selected email conversations, rather than quotes, with a Spectrum VP of Operations. Regarding downgrading: In 2021, amidst the pandemic, I was using a VPN and Tor to do my Dark Web research for my third and fourth books. Was also playing with a VM. 100 Mbps wasn’t cutting it, I was also wireless at this point so I had that degradation despite upgrading my router to Wi-Fi 6 and network cards to wireless 802.11 ac/ax. So I upgraded to their 300Mbps service and saw no improvement. So I started testing and emailing results, writing and producing a song rhyming Spectrum with Rectum, and after several months of insisting that I was the problem, they (a VP) reduced my price. To me this was an admission of guilt. Meanwhile they say they bumped my service to 400Mbps. I believe this is a marketing technique to justify steady price increases and ward away potential competition in the area. Then in 2023 they sent me a notice that I have a free upgrade to 500Mbps, them not knowing about the whole letting sleeping dogs lie thing. So I started testing again, only now with Cat6/7 wired Ethernet, and could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet. More like 90Mbps with FTP even then. I suspected that they could not actually deliver a 1000Mbps service to my rural area, wanted to prove it, so I upgraded to that and again could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet. I don’t really need 1000, 500 would be fine if I could actually get it. There is no evidence that I can. Yet because of this corporate monopoly, if I downgrade to 500 I will still pay the same $100 per month. So I am stuck in some Charter Marketing Catch-22 bullshit here. Hence the pissed off nature of my correspondence, and my continuing persistent and relentless battle. Thank you for our response and advice, MFP
    2 points
  25. I figured it out and got it fixed!! I found a program from Intel that checked my network connection and drivers and used it to update my driver. I'm getting download speeds from around 3.6 Mb up to 5.0 Mb.
    2 points
  26. Rocket

    10,000 Mbps Internet

    Hello, Today, I performed a multi-thread speed test on Speedtest and received a notification. I have a 10,000 Mbps download and upload connection, and I am curious if there is a way to verify this speed. One thing I would greatly appreciate is the possibility to increase the manual test size for a more accurate assessment. I would like to take this opportunity to express my gratitude to the creators and contributors of this website, as it has been incredibly helpful for me. The dedication and expertise of everyone involved have made it an excellent resource for users like myself who need to test their internet speeds. In conclusion, I would like to extend my warmest thanks and greetings from the capital of Switzerland.
    2 points
  27. CA3LE

    Beta Testers Welcome

    1996 is when it all started by the way. Wish I still owned the old domain name, swapped it out in 2001 and then let the old one expire on accident. Guys, I've been building this 27 years! It's still only 2% of the vision, which continues to evolve over time. Hopefully the new version gets in front of even more eyes and with the new visuals more people understand what we're trying to show them here.
    2 points
  28. Where do I sign-up for the 680Mbps/41Mbps... I'm ready!
    2 points
  29. CA3LE

    world average download speed

    Where are you seeing this? I do need to redesign the ranking to be more user friendly. Definitely can be done better. Here's the ranking, after filtering out some of the less popular locales. I manually do a minimum test count of 45100 because every day the host database tables that the host averages are calculated from are trimmed, to 45000. This isn't the right way to do this because it's dependent on the time of day. I have some additional logic I'm adding to that. Where that part of the program will be made aware of the actual recent popularity. It will default to filtering out the less popular locations to build a better list. Sorting by download speed https://testmy.net/rank/countrycode.down/45100 Sorting by upload speed https://testmy.net/rank/countrycode.up/45100 It will look different using the defaults. It also may have been different when you looked, because of the time of day. The tables might have just trimmed and then it happened that a bunch of tests were taking place in the locations you mentioned above. That tool was designed before I started trimming those tables. It was easier to sort them by popularity before they started being trimmed... after time the majority of the tables are over 45K rows making that variable unreliable. Going way beyond the topic... Keep in mind, I built TestMy.net with really no prior programming knowledge... starting in 1996 before it was even TestMy.net. I then dropped out of high school in 1999, the useless information and repetition... I learn way more, much faster by DOING so I decided to focus on that. Building this taught me and I'm always learning. I've definitely made a lot of programming mistakes but they've all lead to a better understanding and better future designs. I'm a lone wolf programmer. All of the frontend, all of the backend. I even built the physical servers and infrastructure by hand. BTW, I was like 1 or 2 credits from graduating. Didn't really want their paper. What does it prove? Got hired at one of the largest telecommunication giants, quit school the next day. Worked for them for 5 years. Working my way up from the warehouse, within 1 year my pay increased over 6X. That company was good to me but TestMy.net was calling, I've pursued it full time ever since. Side note, if anyone actually reads this: That company had a strict policy and would have fired me if they knew I didn't have at least a GED. No matter what my performance was in the company. People high up (like extremely high up) told me it would be an open shut case and to keep quiet about it, "Just go get your GED dude!". Some told me it wouldn't matter even if I got it because I should have never been hired in the first place. That attitude was actually the reason I left them. With my own company nobody could hang anything over my head. Yes, I probably could have just got a GED. But why? I don't want that. They assumed I graduated because I had college credits, never lied to them. Thankfully it never became an issue and I resigned on top. Great company, they taught me a lot too.
    1 point
  30. There’s an Export button under the plots on the Results page
    1 point
  31. cholla

    Event Veiwer error

    CA3LE, I thought the same. Since I do power all equipment off whenever I go to bed. I worked with this some more & found the cause & a solution. The cause was my OOMA Telo. When starting my modem , router , & the OOMA Telo they are on their own separate Power strip. This is so I can start them first & power cycle them without shutting down my computer if I want to. Then I turn on a different power strip for my computer. What was happening is the OOMA Telo started first and received 192.168.1.2 . My computer Network Card wanted 192.168.1.2 but had to accept 192.168.1.3. As far as I can tell my network card was denied 192.168.1.3 at first then received it. So my computer & network card worked & showed 192.168.1.3 using ipconfig /all . The solution was going into my router. Then using Address Reservation for a higher IP Address 192.168.1.25 for example. I also set the same in the OOMA Telo as a 'Static IP Address". Now no more error shows up even after several reboots.
    1 point
  32. I love this! I know I am using iPerf3 for testing local network throughput but this is much prettier and appears fairly easy to use.
    1 point
  33. At least its (currently) consistent. Much better than satellite alternatives!
    1 point
  34. Can confirm, tyvm!
    1 point
  35. CA3LE

    Hello from the Caribbean

    Welcome to TestMy.net! I think we can help.
    1 point
  36. The difference in download speeds between a laptop and a PC can be attributed to several factors. Firstly, hardware disparities play a crucial role. PCs often have more powerful processors and network cards, allowing for faster data retrieval. Additionally, laptops may have limitations due to their compact size, leading to smaller antennas and reduced signal strength, especially in older or budget models. Software can also affect download speeds. Background processes, applications, or bloatware running on laptops can consume bandwidth, slowing down downloads. PC users have more control over their system's resources, enabling them to optimize for faster downloads.
    1 point
  37. Honestly I would pay $10-20/mo for a service (i.e. "TMN Enterprise") where I could add projects, then add buildings/floors/rooms within that project and take sampled results that I can then export either to a file or via an API. It would be nice to have a little parity in concept with the way my Fluke's work, like the below screenshot. Typically, when I use the LIQ-100 or DSX2-8000 I: 1. Setup a project within the device 2. Run a test / measurement 3. Save the test / measurement with the patch number or some other label indication 4. Export into Fluke LinkWare for PC 5. Create the facility structure and sort the results into the proper location 6. Generate a PDF from the results to send to the client With TMN, I would imagine (and prefer) a workflow like the following: 1. Setup a project 2. Setup the location / further structure, such as the floor, etc. 3. Run a test 4. Save the test to the project (or not) with a name (such as "Room", etc.) 5. Export the results as a CSV, JSON, or have an API to retrieve them so they can be dumped into a PDF later Often, if I'm trying to do a speed test at a client site, I'm doing it either on a client PC, or I'm doing wireless testing with my laptop. Having a platform where I could log the test to my project(s) without having to totally log into TMN would be nice as well. I.e. having some type of Username -> MFA Authenticator app request to save the one result to my projects would be awesome. These are just some thoughts, would be nice to have a speed-test tool I could speak to that functioned in a useful way. Even a "My Projects" would be a great start, at least then I can start using my laptop to do client-site testing and troubleshooting.
    1 point
  38. Curiously, Edge still gets substantially faster results. All these results are the exact same PC. From top to bottom: 1. Chrome on Current 2. Chrome on Beta 3. Edge on Beta 4. Firefox on Current 5. Firefox on Beta Definitely something funky within my Firefox install, I may have to wipe it.
    1 point
  39. Hey, That's fantastic! Thank you so much for inviting me to the Beta testing phase! 😎 I'm really looking forward to trying out the new tests and putting my internet connection through its paces. Too bad I don't have my own server, but I'll give it my all on my local network! πŸ’ͺ Your advice about not taking things at face value and doing our own checks is spot on. Trust is good, but a little verification never hurts! πŸ•΅οΈβ€β™€οΈ I'm really excited to see what my connection is capable of. Thanks also for the warm welcome! It's really cool to connect with like-minded internet enthusiasts like you guys. πŸ€— I can't wait to share my experiences in the forum and read about others' stories. Together, we'll conquer the internet! By the way, I've already voted for the Beta! πŸ—³οΈ Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be part of this exciting phase! Thanks again for the response and the sweet compliment on my connection. I love hearing that! Let's rock this Beta! πŸš€ Cheers, Catbear 🐱🐻
    1 point
  40. Catbear 🐱🐻! You're awesome! Please join the beta to get early access >> https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/34612-beta-testers-welcome/ I think you're going to love playing with the new tests on that connection. I'd like to see how it runs on your local network too. I'm stoked to read them. Welcome to TestMy.net! By the way, sweet connection!
    1 point
  41. I love when I spend hours upon hours helping someone, reading into all their tech support emails, taking hours to work someone else's problem in my head, explaining things in intricate detail, writing custom guides specifically for that person and taking time out of my family holiday weekend to quickly respond back... only to be attacked. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I understand your frustration and I've been trying to help. It's pretty common that people attack and blame me and my site, I'm used to it by now. Here's what I actually say on the website right now, Total network bandwidth capacity in excess of 2000 Gbps TestMy.net's servers are all gigabit or multi-gigabit uplinked Hosted network features multi-homed connectivity with bandwidth from independent Tier 1 carriers, combining multiple 10 Gbps connections to create one of the industry’s fastest networks. Global network reach utilizing over 25 Tier 1 network providers including Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Charter, Qwest, Google, Level 3, Internap, NTT America, Equinix & TelefΓ³nica to name a few Extensive peering relationships across North America, Europe and Asia That was actually written so long ago, needs to be updated and includes much more currently. After I get the beta released I'll probably start updating text across the site. Total network capacity. This is the network capacity of the hosts I choose. I choose hosts who peer well with other hosts and have in many cases direct connections to the larger ISPs. Those are their peering relationships. I've definitely had to be creative in the past to afford to run this site. From 1999 to 2001 I had to shut down because I exhausted all of my options. And then lost all the code. Long story about how it was able to come back. TestMy.net today I have a cabinet of servers at Colohouse (formerly Data102) about 15 minutes from my house in Downtown Colorado Springs CO. This is where the (currently) centralized databases run. When you visit "testmy.net" it's served from Cloudflare CDN and goes to my rack here in Colorado. When you use the Colorado test server, you're hitting a VPS running in that rack. My cabinet is located only about 10 feet from where all of the connections come into the data center. When I first joined Data102 the owners were fans of TMN, "We use it all the time! It's our go-to test." and so they gave me a favorable deal and placement in their datacenter. But it's still very expensive and I pay for that out of pocket. Then I have about 30-60 VPS servers at any time, the majority of which right now are on Vultr VPS. If you want $100 of credit to try their platform, here's the link. I get $35 if you keep them. I scale the VPS servers up and down with demand. That's also expensive but I've paid much more in the past. I could definitely do it all for much less but the quality of the bandwidth is extremely important to me. There are a lot of people who've come to rely on my service and I do my best to provide them with the best possible scenario from a server-side perspective. I do extensive testing on hosts... xs1 just helped me throw out a promising prospect. It looked fairly good but TestMy.net proved it's not as good as Vultr. So when the client is fast enough, TMN can work in reverse and be a test of the host it's running on. And I intend on doing an entire section where I test VPS hosts like this. So many people blocking ads. But oh well. When you have some computers pulling 250 Mbps in the linear test and others pulling 40 Mbps it's showing me that it might not be Spectrum at fault. Are they delivering your 1000 Mbps... no, but I'm trying to tell you that 250 Mbps isn't all that bad. In multithread it looks like you're able to see 400-600 Mbps. Not bad. If they're cool they should give you a credit for that. Maybe $10-$20/month off for a year or something like that. Comcast did that for me when I presented my information. I just called and told them what I was finding, didn't have to show them anything. They challenged nothing, but each ISP is different. I've been a trusted resource going on decades now, your ISP knows TestMy.net. They used to train their employees to use my site. If it were happening on all of your computers across your network and also happening when directly connected to the modem. Then it's probably a Spectrum issue. If it's happening, isolated to one or two machines... most likely a software or configuration issue of some kind. I test in Brave regularly, always with shields up. You must have "block scripts" checked in the advanced settings or something. If you block scripts here nothing will work right because all of the frontend code is javascript. I don't know about Privacy Badger, probably the same kind of issue. I'm getting back to writing my beta, where my time and effort is more appreciated. Later! << note: the thumb sticking out
    1 point
  42. CA3LE

    Download Results Test Page

    What speed do you pay for? The max you usually get is around 32 Mbps. That rating is comparing you against other users on AT&T, if you subscribe to a slower than average package you can safely ignore this. The new version doesn't have a star rating. If I add it, I'll make sure give an explanation of how it's calculated and improve the logic. Maybe have it weigh your own average in there or give you a way to input your subscribed speed.
    1 point
  43. CA3LE

    Beta Testers Welcome

    Hi Aqueum, Yeah, maybe I should put the forum more prominently in the menu. Used to be front and center. The new version is web based. I never want to require you to install anything, ever. I don't think it's necessary. Especially now, with the advancement of browser technologies, opening native APIs to the web. Web applications can now access the GPU directly, I mean come on. All I know, I have no problem working within the web's framework. The capabilities today blow me away. With the right software and internet connection you actually won't need any native applications in the future. Been developing heavily on it, performs really well on every device I've tested on. I'm getting close. It's powerful and I think it's pretty amazing what it can do. All with just a simple, light web application. With over a dozen options you'll be able to control and tinker with the way the test operates, altering the flow and rendering. I made the options for myself in testing, I was going to stick with what worked best. But I feel it's better to just let you control it all. With default recommended settings you can revert quick and easy but still have control to experiment however you'd like. There are some pretty powerful option combinations that can really kick your browser into overdrive. Since you voted on this topic, you'll be invited by email when I'm ready for you to try it. For now, my release version (2018) still does the job. Many of the tricks the new version uses were discovered in developing the current version. If you have the bandwidth, you should be able to show it with TestMy.net. TMN has the bandwidth and dozens of servers that do only one job. You just might have to coax it out by altering how the test pulls the data, by using multithread. First, I recommend testing under your new username. Run a few combined tests, then click the "multithread" toggle at the top of the screen (e.g. says 'Multithread off' in my screenshot). Run a few more tests, you may see improved results using this method because it combines multiple downloads and multiple servers together (the new version does this for both upload and download tests). Then go to mirrors (quickly select at the top of the screen by clicking "Testing [locale name]" e.g. CA3LE Testing Colorado Springs, CO) Repeat testing on a couple of mirrors to compare how you perform to different locations. I pull only 400-500 Mbps using TestMy.net's Linear (single thread, transferring a single file) method, 700-900+ when I multithread. Other's like @xs1 regularly pull over 800-900 Mbps here using Linear. He used to only be able to do that with multithread... then one day, POOF! It magically bumped up. TestMy.net's servers and software were the same, pretty sure his computer and network were the same... then, poof, it just worked better. A variable had to change somewhere. TestMy.net Test ID : xwB2N5GI9.Onniz66P7 My opinion since the beginning, the single thread Linear result is the one you want score high on. Comparing the two gives you deeper insight.
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  44. This problem got me interested in the technical/engineering basics of what is going on. I have started to study Microsoft's Windows Internals book. Good thing I'm retired: my curiosity eats up a LOT of time... phred
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  45. Glad we could help 😎
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  46. When testing 1gbps up/down fiber connection over wired ethernet via the automatic test on both a laptop and desktop I see bandwidth much lower than I'd typically see when using my own remote server or other speed test utilities. After clicking the 'test again' button 3-4 times the download test seems to cap out at around 600mbps, and the upload test seems capped at around 400mbps. I don't think I've ever seen the expected results on the first run. It seems as though this is skewing test history to show an average of much less bandwidth than I have been able to confirm having through other testing methods https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat?test-id=d6c40a41-56e8-4770-ba94-756ae659094d Why do you need to test a connection that has that much bandwidth you ask? Well I guess I don't NEED to very often, but there seems to be an issue with the test servers and how the bandwidth is allocated on the initial test, so I figured asking about it wouldn't hurt. On subsequent back-to-back tests there seems to be a 'ramp up', at least on the download test, that then gives more accurate and expected results.
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  47. lol this test was taken @ midnight. During the day it can get pretty bad around here, sometimes dipping as low as 400/600. >.< Also, other than speed tests, i haven't really found a way to saturate my upload speeds. Frontier (as well as many ISP's) shapes bandwidth depending on the program. P2P/FTP programs ( & ports) will be recognized & throttled to the amount of speed per connection. For example, if a user with a decent connection tries to download a file from me, it will peak at lets say 21Mbs; (hypothetical speed) but if the same user has 6 upload slots to me, they will than have 6x 21MBs. Its very difficult to utilize much of my maximum potential. basically a single vs multithread scenario.
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  48. sst3ph3nss

    Beta Testers Welcome

    sign me up please, im very interested.
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  49. CA3LE

    Beta Testers Welcome

    Thank you for all the kind words. I'm flattered. @xs1 You're definitely one of my OG members. #522! You've been a big part of pushing me to make things better and I appreciate every bit of it. Isn't that funny, I still use a similar shade of orange. And look at that crappy RG-59 cable connector, yuck! lol. Back when I used the test to do my job better installing people's cable. A few months later I lost all of that code and had to rewrite everything. Had that happen a few times early on because storage was lame back then, also switched from perl to php around 2004 which required a total rewrite. I think the new version is my 4th rewrite but I'm not sure. One thing is certain, it is my best. And I can't wait to share it with you. - D As I've said before, I don't build this site... I just try to put it "on paper". You are truly the ones building it with your feedback.
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  50. Its hard to believe this site been a life this long the speed test are totally wrong. If you really want to know your speed go to speedtest.net
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