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Hi Paul, I'm in Phoenix Arizona, USA. But my servers are located in Dallas Texas, Washington D.C. and Seattle Washington... right on top of some of the most powerful trunk lines on the Internet. If you're not near one of these states it's not a bad thing. These locations were hand chosen because these are locations where many other websites host... therefore, I believe, providing a more realistic evaluation of your connection speed. Texas, especially, is like a central hub to the United States data communications... this is why I choose to have this as the default testing location and where TMN's home server resides. As I always say... Do you want to know what your connection speed is to your neighbors house or to where other websites are hosted? I personally could care less what my speed is inside of my hosts network or within my state... in comparison to the locations I've chosen, nobody hosts in Phoenix... so why would my speeds to locations in Phoenix matter? This is why I have a hard time understanding the mentality of some other speed tests on the market. I also strongly believe that ISPs are sending their users to these internally hosted test to mask their peering short comings. "Look, your speed is juuuust fine... must be the website your visiting." -- BS! My aim with TestMy.net is to educate people and expose this malpractice. - Cheers, - Damon

i had a speed drop around mid july - upload only fell from 1.5m to 650k - its an att T1 line and has been rock steady for 9 months been thru way too many service tickets and testing from carrier who says its all good - i came accros the old test my net and it says 1.5 or so but new says 650 - i flooded the connection today with 3 computers and bit torrents / saw 1.5 up/down thru the bandwidt monitor in the Buffalo router. any idea ?

Anyhow, here are the gauges I speak so highly of ........

Hello everybody. I am cst1992 and I'm from India. I live in Nagpur and have BSNL as my ISP. I have an advertised broadband download speed of 4 Mbps(never ever crossed 2) and upload speed is not mentioned(highest ever achieved was 560 kbps; avg ~30 kbps). As you can see, I'm WAY dissatisfied with my isp and with good reason(those who know BSNL will get it) but I have no other choices. That's it for my connection. As for my personal profile: I'm pursuing a course in Engineering and I like to help people when they are in trouble. I got very positive vibes here and hope that I'll continue to have this experience. Thank you all very much. cst1992

Thank you for changing the name.

Hi nvptx, I can't get to very much of what Suddenlink has for documentation because they don't service my zipcode. Does Suddenlink have a link on their site to a speed measurement? If so which one is it? I did see this: Suddenlink Network Management Practices. To help mitigate potential network congestion, we are in the process of applying bandwidth usage allowances to residential Internet accounts, with incremental bandwidth automatically provided for a nominal, incremental fee. Only in the relatively few cable systems listed and only through the means described in this document, we may limit the bandwidth available to individuals whose usage materially exceeds the typical customer usage in those cable systems. I didn't check the TestMy database for average speeds from Suddenlink (if there is any data). You could see what their averages are on TestMy. Look at yours relative to those averages (don't worry about the absolute numbers). The bar charts here when the tests finish tell you how you are doing compared to others on your ISP. The percentages are useful in seeing how you are doing compared to the others. Since I couldn't get to a lot of their website info (It wouldn't allow me to get to their support site or detailed plan info), I don't know what they are really offering. You are getting about 5x the bandwidth I see on TestMy on Time Warner's RoadRunner, and I think we pay about $45/mo. Unfortunately for you, it seems that your speeds are somewhat lower since their "upgrade". I don't know whether this is due to some of their load balancing in their network management practices or not. I can tell you this, that the Time Warner RoadRunner I have "guarantees 10 Mbps download and 1 Mbps Upload. My TestMy results average about 20% lower on both up and down from these numbers. The SpeedTest tool that Time Warner has a link to typically reads 3x higher on download, and the upload they show is usually 20% higher. I don't know what you are paying compared to what I'm paying but my $45/month gets me about 8Mbps down and 0.8 Mbps up. The it's a matter of whether you think your monthly fees are in line with what you are getting. I don't know what regulations there are for ISPs meeting their advertised speeds. But virtually all of them use similar optimistic questionable speed measuring tools. And very likely none of them meet their advertised speeds when measured more realistically via TestMy. I haven't researched whether there are any class action lawsuits agains any of the major ISPs for false advertising, but the whole thing seems pretty loose to me.

Awesome, DSLReports has a lot of great members and information. ... I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Not many people take the time to do that these days. -D