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  1. And Larka, you will find that under some conditions of degraded signals coming into your house, they will show then speed as being good on your ISP's tools. Also, I don't know what their algorithms are, but you can watch their analog meter during times of signal interrupts (with signals valid or degraded) drop down tomzeronduring the test then display the result as the ending meter value, so they are throwing out the data that makes them look bad. I have no idea whatbtheirnrationale for that is since the tools are supposedly there to help a customer troubleshoot. Interrupts on this site result in a lower throughput reading after the test. There must be either poorly written or perhaps no regulations written that they conform to. I don't know how they get away with advertising the rates they are claiming. On average they never meet them. On my best days my speeds are 20% lower than what my ISP has promised as a minimum,Man's download speeds measured on TMN are typically 1/3 of what their tools says I'm getting. Look at you numbers relative to your prior test results, and compare your results to your local ISPs speeds on this site, and to the ISPs average performance nationally. Once you've established what "good" is, it's easy to spot when there's an issue. my typical numbers are significantly lower than the national averages for Time Warner but usually 5-10% higher than my local average speeds on TMN.
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  2. Hey All, Been awhile since I posted on this thread. The same wireless ISP ive had for 10 years just upgraded their service offerings in our area this spring. These speeds are pretty common, my average is 16.5 and my upload is usually more around the 2.2 mark. I have the 5G 10Max service at $65/month http://www.thewisp.net/services.asp#5G. Im assuming there is some bursting going on, but its always up this high. Actually their speeds have always been higher than the advertised plans. And they have no contracts. Someone before said that my ISPs packages were $155/month, and said that I was lying. Not so at all! Im pretty proud of this being that I live in the middle of nowhere, and have great service. They have a voip package too that we picked up about 6 months ago, which works like a normal land line. Cant tell the difference. (I know, land line right, well being that we live out of town, and our first child is on the way, I thought it would be good just in case a cell phone dies or something.) :::.. Combined Test Results ..::: Download Connection:: 14360 Kbps or 14.4 Mbps Download Test Size:: 8.1 MB or 8294 kB or 8493466 bytes Download Speed:: 1795 kB/s or 1.8 MB/s Upload Connection:: 1091 Kbps or 1.1 Mbps Upload Test Size:: 1.5 MB or 1496 kB or 1531710 bytes Upload Speed:: 136 kB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:13 Test Time:: 2012-09-14 12:06:48 Local Time Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/jCsiDGU.hSWKFyA User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64) AppleWebKit/537.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/21.0.1180.89 Safari/537.1 [!] On another note, My brother used to have the same ISP and then he moved to Colorado, can't get them there. But he was looking into becoming a reseller/franchise of the company and sounds like its going well so far. I guess theres not much start up costs, but they rely a lot on him to do most of the work. He's got about 20 people pre-sold for one access point location already. Im kinda bragging because I love these guys, have been great to us from day one.
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