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[natedogg2]

So I just upgraded to cox ultimate, for $90/month my speeds aren't really any better than the tier I used to be on.




when the cox tech came out he checked my speed by doing a speed test on http://azspeedtest.cox.com/, on that I consistently get 50-60Mbps but never have I seen those speeds anywhere else...

any ideas/suggestions?

[CA3LE]

natedogg2, on 26 February 2011 - 01:12 AM, said:

when the cox tech came out he checked my speed by doing a speed test on http://azspeedtest.cox.com/, on that I consistently get 50-60Mbps but never have I seen those speeds anywhere else...

any ideas/suggestions?

Yeah, I suggest that you never listen to your providers test... ever.  They are testing internally.  Too close to be a real test of your internet. God, I wish that the world knew this... I'd have allot more visitors.

You need to tell them about the issue because I'm on Cox.net Ultimate too, over 1000 miles from the server and look what I get.



... Oh yeah, that test is flash based so you can throw it's accuracy out the window anyway.  What are your system specs?  You may have something out of place.  TestMy.net is a more thorough and can detect things that flash speed tests don't seem to notice. Like incorrect MTU and Rwin settings, read http://old.testmy.net/t-1013.  I've seen poor hard drive performance effect the results here as well.

Flash based tests are more of a novelty than a real test of your performance.