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Reading the speed between their server and your computer is not really testing the internet speed. Doesn't matter how you connect. You're not testing the Internet if you don't actually go out to the Internet. Testing against your ISP's servers isn't going out to the Internet. That's why TestMy.net is here. Your ISP has control over the quality of peering and bandwidth in and out of their network. If your ISP is in the UK, then it should be a very quick hop over to my UK servers. As long as your ISP is delivering that won't affect the final result. There would be little to no difference if all the connections between are running with capacity available. Any good ISP in that scenario would have at least multiple 10 GbE peers, meaning that the route between the ISP and TestMy.net should never be the weakest link... unless it's over capacity. It's a red flag if an ISP tells you that only testing against their server's is accurate. And like I said, it doesn't make sense in the first place. Your ISP's servers are not the Internet, that's your host's network... before the Internet. It's a part of the Internet but if that's your host, their network is your network. A step above your local area network but we're not really out to the wider Internet. TestMy.net is actually testing your connection out to the Internet.

Hi Steven, welcome! When you test at TestMy.net you're testing the connection from your home, through your providers network, out to the internet and then to my servers. You only need to consider your own location when choosing one of my locations to test from. Usually TMN will do a good job of choosing for you. Based on your IP address, TMN would pick UK servers to test from. You can also visit the Mirror page and quickly test your latency across all of the locations. UK will again most likely perform the best (lowest). After you're settled on a test server location then head over to the Auto Speed Test to schedule automatic testing. Once you've gathered some results (data) visit My Results and My Average to get a better understanding of the results. Hope this helps, please let me know if you have any other questions.

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Here's a photo I took yesterday. We had 77% coverage where I'm at. A Sun spot made it look kinda like Pac Man for a little bit. (the sun spot was visible in other photos so I know it wasn't an artifact) Taken on an S22 Ultra, using the 10X lens through solar filter glasses, manual focus and exposure.

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Welcome @dudxs! Check out https://testmy.net/database. I store results based on GEO location and ISP.

First, All of the the database results are from TestMy.net only. There are also several ways you can programmatically extract the averages. I'll use Comcast as an example but this works for locations as well. Basic json of what you see rendered on Comcast's hoststats page https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable?jsonout=1 CSV output to file https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable?csvout=1 CSV output rendered in page https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable?csvout=1&easycsv=1 You can also specify how far back and output the averages https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable?csvout=2&monthsback=12&easycsv=1 Note for the output, I use pipes (e.g. " | ") as a separator. Below I'm adding line breaks to make it easier to read. "April 2022","May 2022","June 2022","July 2022","August 2022","September 2022","October 2022","November 2022","December 2022","January 2023","February 2023","March 2023","April 2023","May 2023","June 2023","July 2023","August 2023","September 2023","October 2023","November 2023","December 2023","January 2024","February 2024","March 2024" |219.5,192.5,190.6,156.1,157,210.8,165.5,224,215.5,215.5,209.6,168.4,206.6,203.6,220.9,270.5,272.4,218.3,244.9,240.8,299.5,249.9,312.7,190.5 |9.9,17.4,15.2,16,14.6,17.7,37.1,16.5,13.6,15.6,17.7,17.1,18.6,14.2,21.3,22.1,22.9,24.2,27.8,34.1,28.1,25.7,26.7,22.9 |'NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL','NULL',95,92,89,92,123,107,91,114,104,75,119,81,127,79,78,106,82,76,97,89,95,194,71,61 Translates to... Date Field |Download |Upload |Latency You can make a simple program to CURL and parse that output, explode and then make arrays out of the data. Make sure you set a reasonable limit to how often you query or it will be seen as a threat. And please share with others where you're getting your data. TMN is 100% word of mouth.

Was that only happening on the My Results page or did you see that on the test results as soon as it finished the test also? I'm loading a different version of the charts for you on My Results, it should be working normally there. Your helping out great. Keep in touch with me and we'll get this bug nailed down. I appreciate the help.

That's a bug with the charting program. I thought I resolved this. I'll try to duplicate the issue on my end so I can nail it down finally. Odd because I can't replicate it this time... at least not so far. I'll update this topic to have you test again after I make a few edits.

See if you can do https://gifcap.dev/ and capture what's happening. ... or search "screen record chromeos" --- looks like they made it easy on there.

Ran ChromeOS, tested the beta and didn't see the behavior you described. Actually that particular computer ran better under ChromeOS than MacOS... I might have to install it full time on that machine. It's a 2011 and has been progressively slowed down by Mac updates. Funny, all the problems seem gone, same exact hardware different OS. Proves that it's all software and personally, it feels intentional. Anyway, I tried to install it first on my Virtual Machine setup using proxmox but the RAW file makes it a little annoying. I need an ISO. So I opted to just put it on a flash and run it on my hardware test bench. Unfortunately I was met with a stuck boot screen. It showed the ChromeOS Flex splash screen but wouldn't load further. That's when I turned to one of my old iMacs. Booted right up and tested as I would expect (running on the wifi under suboptimal conditions but that's not what we're testing). Do you have any Chrome extensions installed? Go to chrome://extensions/ in your browser, let us know what you have installed. Post a screenshot. Basic run down of what can happen sometimes... Extensions that parse (read) the data in your browser may be overwhelmed by the data TMN dishes out. This can cause weird things to happen. If you see an extension that's doing this, e.g. you disable an extension and the symptom disappears, then chances are... that extension is parsing the data in your browser. In other words, if it can do that... it can spy on you as well. I would not use an extension with that sort of behavior. It may be "legitimate" because it's a "deal catcher" extension or something like that... it may need to spy on you to get you that deal. And you're giving it that permission. To hunt down the extension, systematically disable extensions and then re-test until you nail it. If you have a bunch installed, maybe start with just disabling all of them. Then re-enable the ones you really need. The current version passively detects things like this all the time. Something special about my process... other speed tests don't seem to do this. According to our users that run into these kinds of extension issues. I just want to compare our user agent strings to be sure... Yours (taken from your test results): Mozilla/5.0 X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 KHTML, like Gecko Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Mine: Mozilla/5.0 X11; CrOS x86_64 14541.0.0 AppleWebKit/537.36 KHTML, like Gecko Chrome/113.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 ... exact match. So there has to be another variable. Cases like this, it's most often extensions. If you really need that "deal catcher" extension (or whatever it is) I suggest disabling it, until you actually need to use it. Once you're done, turn it back off. There are very few exceptions where I feel an extension is necessary. Usually, you give up way more permissions that you need to, they are a major security risk. I don't use them myself and I recommend my users also steer clear.

I develop primarily using Chrome so I'm not sure why that would be happening. But maybe there's something different about ChomeOS. I'm installing ChromeOS for testing and will report back on this topic.

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Welcome to the beta team @NorthIndiana84 Read the beta welcome topic to get started. It's a new version of TestMy.net's speed test. Code rebuilt from line zero. There's no requirement to being a beta tester. Give me feedback or don't, either way I get valuable information when you use the test. Helps me catch bugs before production, even if you don't tell me anything. Obviously, feedback helps even more. User feedback has helped shape TestMy.net. Your level of involvement is up to you. Just use the site as you normally would, with the beta ON and with it OFF. And if you're up for it, let me know what I can do to improve the experience.

According to hosts who've contacted me, there's an option for them to "adjust the drop off". So they can cut off the top and bottom portions and shape the result to suit the narrative they want to paint. I know this because they were asking me if I had those options! Not just one or two by the way. And they've stated that these options only exist on the higher level licenses. So basically, if you pay them enough. Exactly what you eluded to. More reason why an unbiased third party opinion from TestMy.net is necessary. All connections are tested under the same internal variables. Any variable that can be controlled is controlled by YOU, the client... not your ISP.