Pgoodwin1

Think of it this way , your intuition would have saved you had you sensed something during the call.

west coast server is up and running CA3LE just needs to get his software uploaded and it will be ready to go... waiting on a private message back from him

on a side note i was able to hit about 70MB/s which is about 560Mbps testing from LA to NY... so the connection is definately capable

I'd say , damn 70 MB cross country is huge.

Some time today, things got well:

Central TestMy server
Thu Feb 07 2013 @ 12:05:58 pm 1 MB Upload: 454 Kbps
Thu Feb 07 2013 @ 10:38:28 pm 1 MB Upload: 792 Kbps

So, I'll be starting another round on this. I've only worked about 16 hours or so on the mirrors so there are a number of changes to be made as well as additions. So please bear with me. I'm at the stage with this where it is hardly even starting to take shape, if I can just get 5% of my idea written it'll be heading in the right direction. Just realize, what you see today might be totally rebuilt tomorrow. My process takes time, I don't have a team of programmers... I have to write everything by hand. Over time mirrors will become better integrated and will work with all the same features as the regular speed test. Just give me a little time to put it together for you all.

Pgoodwin1, the doolgo server doesn't have to best routing everywhere. I tested up to 70 Mbps from some locations to there but I get terrible results there myself. It's capable, but your only as fast as your slowest link. The TestMy.net home server is still the benchmark, the additional servers give you something else to compare to. Having TMN code up on various VPS hosts can give people a way to benchmark VPS performance too. It's a great judge of web server performance, not just client end bandwidth. I'm working to build it to where you'll only need to drop a single file on the server for it to work. When I'm done, testing performance on any host will be as easy as checking your email. Upload a file, test... results.

Triran and mudmanc4 have a few servers they're putting up. As soon as I rebuild a few things I'll get those listed. Mudmanc4, I'll respond to your message in a bit... If you want to really help, hook me up with FTP or shell access like Triran did. Then, when updates become available, I'll push them automatically to your server so you don't have to think about anything.

So I got myself A custom build computer, With my eyesight no longer being the best, find it better to let someone else put it together for me. 
 
Well I place a order on Monday, and Waited, Called them on Wednesday to get a ruff idea when to expect delivery so I could be sure to be around,. No desire to have a expensive computer sitting outside for long. Did I mention, when I called a REAL person picked up the phone?? I even told the guy I was shocked, He laughed and said they get that all the time, they hate the  automated stuff as well. Push 1 for this 2 for that, Wait, Mess up, get the wrong department, then play the game again. 
 
They tell me its ready, gonna be shipped Thursday, Few hours later I get a e mail saying problem, should get a bigger power supply. I wrote back, complained, explained, and kept it polite. I then as nice as I could told them what I thought they should do to make it right. They should put in the bigger power supply I needed, and next day ship it.
 
I honestly never expect them to do anything but want more money, and be forced to wait even longer.  To my shock I got a email reply Thursday Morning, The guys simply said, I make no excuses, We dropped the ball on this build. We are gonna put in the bigger power supply you wanted and get it done and shipped today, we will next day ship it, and we will pay for it all. 
 
So never fear to complain, but be nice, don't be afraid to tell them what you think they should do to make it right, but keep it reasonable. If you do that, you may come out happy and smelling like a rose. 
 
 

CA3LE. I tried the new Doolgo server this morning. noticed a couple of things.

1. When you hit the "Your Results" link at the top of your web page, the test results on the Doolgo server don't show up on the graph or the table. The immediate test result shows, but the graph and table you see immediately after the test is the host graph/table. Immediatelybafter the test completes, when I hit the button below the graph (Your Graph button), it sends me to the TestMy site data graph/table - which doesn't include the most recent Doolgo test run data.

Also, on an iPad, I can't scroll the table of test results on Doolgo after a test. It shows the most recent 4 results.

2. My download test results are significantly slower - about 70-80% of what I get on the Central server. The Doolgo server has only 1/20th the bandwidth you have on the Dallas server. Not sure if that bandwidth is why the speeds are slower or whether it's something else in the path. I used a constant 25 MB test size, and did several runs, and the results seem consistent.

I couldn't figure out how to go back and see a personal record of test results on the Doolgo server.

I'll be redoing that soon, right now you can only choose that if you're selected on the default server.  It shows up on the download and upload test page.  After I rework it I'll make sure that there is a way to select that from the homepage too.

Good idea goodwin
 
I've seen the same thing with wireless, sometimes there are other reasons aside limited bandwidth for this, such as 900mhz cordless phones, or wireless camera's, things of this nature. At the same time , the path to the wireless connection may be getting interference from one of the above, there could be limitations or QOS settings in the wireless configuration, that are throttling certain packets or ports. Such as P2P, streaming media, VoIP and gaming port ranges.

It's possible that the variation you're seeing is real and normal, although if you're seeing all the way from 4 Mbps to 20 Mbps, that seems a bit much. Try selecting the test file size - go to the Download Test menu and pick say 25 MB for a test file size. Run the test 3-5 times and see if you get more consistent results. You can try it using the test server near you, and the automatic server selection-at the very top of the page.

And pick say 1.5 MB for the Upload test size when you run that one.

Report back with some results

If you still have big variations, you may have an equipment problem inside or outside your house.

Yeah, they have more time on their hands and tend to care more about the customer.  Subcontractors want to hurry up so they can get to the next job to make more money.
 
Here's a good example.  I went out on a job in North Scottsdale AZ... there had been 6 previous calls to this mansion before I got the call.  All the previous 'techs' were subcontractors.  I could see work that had been done to the drop and the side of the house... but inside I notice that there is a very old connector behind the wall plate... and the cable is RG-59, with copper shielding.  Already off to a bad start.  I go up into the attic (huge by the way, I could stand up with about 6 ft of headroom... straight up mansion) and see a litteral rats nest of cables.  Chewed all to shit by mice.  Some were so bad there was 10 feet of cable with nothing but the core left.  I thought to myself, "how the hell did they not see this!" it was instantly obvious as soon as you popped your head in there  ... because they weren't doing their job, that's how.  I called my dispatcher and had her give all my other jobs to my buddies because I had an all day job on my hands.  I ended up doing a nearly 30 outlet rewire on this place.  Luckily the attic was big and easy to work with.  The lady was cool too, she hooked up a big blower fan at the entrance to blow A/C in there for me.  So the job went really smooth.
 
... we charged her nothing for the entire job.  These days, they'd charge for every single outlet.  But obviously, if you have 30 outlets... money isn't a problem for you.     -- Funny thing is, if the contractors had seen and repaired that, they would have made BANK.  Probably a couple grade for that job.  But they were too lazy to get into it.  You should have seen the D-Mark.  I had a two way splitter, split to two 6 way amps, split to a bunch of 3 and 4 way splitters.  By the time I left she had one of the best pictures I'd ever seen on analog.
 
Contractors don't care about the customer in my experience.  They care about how many easy jobs they can knock out real fast.  I'd hear them talking to each other at the office as I got my equipment from the warehouse every day, "Dude, I did 20 data installs yesterday!" --- sorry but if you knock them out THAT fast, something isn't being done right.    ... and here comes the in house tech to clean up the mess.  Having said that however, Cox does follow up on them and holds them accountable for mistakes.  Some of them lose their contracts, but just because they lose their contract doesn't mean that there isn't a bunch of houses out there with mis-wired cable that they did.  It's not like firing them fixes all the issues they caused.
 
Also, prewired coax done by homebuilders is crap.  Brand new houses I'd go to that were getting service for the first time... first thing I'd do is cut off ALL the fittings that they did and throw them and the crap splitters they used in the trash.  Electricians know electrical, not cable.  I really just wished that they would just run the lines and leave the fittings up to me, hell it would save themselves money too.  They almost always did it wrong and it was just easier to do it all over and not risk a callback.  Probably one of the reasons my callback rate was one of the lowest in the state.

CA3LE...good call on the "in-house" tech. Yes, they are night and day different from the regular installation techs. They'll also figure out the problem pretty quickly.

If you haven't tried re-booting the modem, try that. Power it down. Sometimes mine (different model than yours) gets quirky and erratic. Many times clearing the memory by powering it down and back up again has resolved the problem.

If that doesn't cure it, try plugging a laptop directly into the modem (other stuff disconnected) and see whether the performance is better. If it is, you probably have an issue with your equipment. If it's the same, then it points to either the cable modem, or their signal integrity. Signal strength doesn't guarantee that it will work right. The signal can be too big as well as too small and cause problems. If you do have the problem when plugged directly into the modem, call Cox back. Usually on repeat performance issue calls they will first try to help you over the phone, and if that doesn't resolve it they will send a tech out to troubleshoot. More than once Time Warner has found problems with their equipment outside at their amplifiers and switches.

Hi all,
 
My name is Inexco.  Nice to be part of this community.

I found a well written article on why you should upgrade your cable modem to DOCSIS 3. He also explains that TestMy.net's results were a more accurate benchmark that better reflected the actual speeds he was seeing.

DOCSIS 3.0 Channel Bonding and You

If you have a pre-DOCSIS 3.0 cable modem and your connection speed is suffering, this might be exactly what you need to bring you up to speed. We've been telling people this for years... but this article does a good job of explaining why it helps.

Again, another case where an Ookla speed test failed to provide real results... and TestMy.net worked as designed.

I'm upgrading some elements to the templates to coincide with the upgrade to 3.4.1  ... something internal in IPB errored and locked the topicViewTemplate... so the forums are going to run the plain theme until Invision Staff gets in and fixes their end for me.
 
If your curious what's new in IPB 3.4.1 here's a few things that might interest you...
Editor Improvements Best Answer Feature Miscellaneous Enhancements Anti-Spam Improvements  
Should be looking normal again soon.  With a few extra features.

It really is fast now switching pages. It's noticeable even on my iPad.

... Yeah, it's crazy fast. Feels instant.

TestMy.net's new home server is online. Most people will almost immediately be on this server. It's a monster. With 2000 Mbps of connectivity, 4 200MB SSD in RAID5 array, 16GB RAM, Dual Intel Xeon-SandyBridge E5-2620-HexCore (24 threads of processing). Intensive mySQL queries I've ran query 10X+ faster than the old server. Some things that were so intensive that they couldn't execute on the old server pop right up on the new server. It's amazingly quick. This means snappier response all around.

The old server was starting to reach full load during peak hours. Still operating correctly and handling the job, plenty of bandwidth available on tap... but the CPU load was getting higher than I'd like. So I put a more powerful server online.

Enjoy!

I have reached the big 50 and not talking about age 50Mbps Down but still short on my up with 2.6 Mbps. + or - a few Mbps

Welcome for SW Ohio

Vista was introduced under his watch and it really sucked!

As Ninja states, they all over sell. As I've stated elsewhere in TestMy, all of them do it so they've collectively used overstated specs on their speeds. They're not afraid of getting sued, because it has become the norm, and on their instruments, that's what you get, regardless of the reality of it. I typically get only about 80% (8Mbps as measured here) of what they tell me I'm supposed to be getting for download speed (10 Mbps min), and only about 1/3 what their speed measuring tools show (>20Mbps).

Advertising baby!

Bandwidth is cheap compared to what people pay for a slice of attention.

How do you think TestMy.net has survived for so long without ever charging anyone? As long as people keep supporting my advertisers, I don't care how much bandwidth they draw. YouTube has massive bandwidth needs... but is also massively supported by advertising.

Another thing to consider. YouTube, is owned by Google... Google created AdSense. People that post YouTube videos can link their AdSense account and earn a portion of the revenue from Google. So not only is bandwidth not a factor to them... they're making enough that they're willing to share profit... and give you the Lion's share. It pushes people to create higher quality content... Google is truly smart.



... Oh and how they store it. A lot of servers... across the globe. And a lot of memory.