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I Could not agree more. I am in Las Vegas and was forced into upgrading to Ultimate (150/20). I say forced because I had their Premier package (50/10) and was rather happy with my speed (even though my upload was on average only 4-5). However, we used like 300GB 2 months in a row and they shut down my account until I agreed to upgrade to the Ultimate plane with a 400GB cap. My download speeds on here so far are only in the high 20's to low 30's. But my upload speeds I am not to sure on. They seem to be browser dependent and vary greatly. If I actually used a browser to upload I would know to use Waterfox or Pale Moon. But seeing that I upload via FTP (FileZilla) and through live streaming I have no clue what my upload is. Here is the huge variance I get: 33MB File Upload 2-13-2013 Maxthon 6:05 Am = 1.2 Mbps 148 kB/s Waterfox 6:09 Am = 14.7 Mbps 1.8 MB/s Firefox 6:20 Am = 15 Mbps 1.9 MB/s Pale Moon 6:22 Am = 14.1 Mbps 1.8 MB/s Chrome 6:23 Am = 4.7 Mbps 586 kB/s IE 9 6:24 Am = 9.5 Mbps 1.2 MB/s Chrome 6:26 Am = 4.4 Mbps 556 kB/s Pale Moon 6:27 Am = 14.1 Mbps 1.8 MB/s

Well I don't know about there in Arizona. However, here in Las Vegas they are very strict. I broke my cap on the Premier plan (250GB) 2 months in a row and they blocked my account until I upgraded to the Ultimate plan! Now I am almost hitting that cap and they have told me if I go over it I will have to purchase 2 plans.

What browser are you using? Cox just upgraded my Ultimate to 150/20 too (It's only $99.99 here, it was 94.99 before the upgrade)... I'm still only getting 50 Mbps. But I know my connection is on fire fast right now. I download from Giganews I get 11.5 MB/s which is 92 Mbps. ... to achieve that however I have to open 50 connections. TestMy.net is not a multithreaded speed test. And trust me... you don't need it to be. I've regularly seen over 200 Mbps from thousands of miles out from the server. When you test elsewhere they multithread the test, they also often test you automatically on a server that's too close to you to be a true test of your speed OUT to the Internet. Your Internet isn't being served from within your city or state... why should you test it there? (my opinion but many agree). It ends up making connections look better than they might actually be. I've made this test to try to keep ISPs honest and consumers informed. ... I'm on the same package as you man. I'm not seeing 150 Mbps either, anywhere... TestMy.net's results are just more pronounced than other tests out there........ that's because it's showing you that you AREN'T getting what they advertise. Blatantly. I'm seeing about half of the advertised upload. Confirmed by uploading to various sites including YouTube... actually often got worse results than my upload speed tests here. Don't get me wrong, the connection is fast... but it ain't no 150/20. Cox is definitely the best game in town so I'm not going to complain about it either. The competition in Phoenix in CenturyLink... who HAS to still be digging their asses out of the rats nest of twisted pair that US West left behind from before Qwest came in and tried to clean it up. I opened one of their pedestals by mistake (when I was a cable tech)... I took one look at it and thought to myself, "F*$& THAT JOB!" ... seriously it looked like tens of thousands of twisted pair with no rhyme or reason, you definitely needed a toner to do that job. And they're still running Internet through that crap, no wonder they can't get over 40Mbps still and half the people that want that are told, "Sorry, not in your area... we have 12 Mbps in your area." BAH HA HA, it's 2013 and the competition has 150/20Mbps ....... wait ... or do they. -- even if Cox was only 40 Mbps it would STILL be better than DSL. Unless it's fiber to the house DSL the latency on coax is far superior. Way more stable connection in my experience. DSL pissed me off, felt jittery in comparison. Not nearly as smooth. Plus D5L6UY doesn't have the same ring to it as CA3LE6UY. Every other package I've upgraded to in the past has performed over what they state. This time it didn't even feel like an upgrade (was 50/5 before), except when I multithread on Usenet or torrents. I'm convinced that I'll never see that speed on a single file download... ever. But other speed tests out there make it seem like it would get close... it won't. And trust me it's not for lack of bandwidth on TestMy.net's end, the home server is a monster with 2000 Mbps of connectivity in what many consider to be Softlayer's most well connected datacenter... It's also not for lack of the test technology being able to do it, like I said before there are tons of people including myself who've seen well over 200 Mbps. What is it then? I think it's our host limiting us, shaping the way our bandwidth can be used. It's called traffic shaping or packet shaping ... they're doing a form of bandwidth throttling. This is the first time I've seen it first hand on my own connection and I haven't fully confirmed this with anyone from Cox, but I will. I haven't worked for them for like 9 years but I still have good friends there that can give me the inside scoop on this if they know anything. If I find anything I'll write something about and pin it (means it will stay at the top of the forum) in General Discussion. Cheers! -- thank you for your patronage, I hope you like what I've built.

this test can detect quite a few issues you won't see on flash or java based tests... this site can detect issues with incorrect settings MTU, RWIN, or browser settings... aswell as HDD issues. can also detect issues with ethernet cables, modems, routers and even issues that might be from your drop or even local node aswell as routing issues it doesn't look like your having routing issues unless they are very centralized to your location

Thank you, I have been very impressed with this box - I wouldn't complain about anything because, frankly, I was shocked to see a browser via http over one pipe perform like this. Hopefully you are right and browsers will implement additional protocols for general use. I think you are correct, everything is very symmetrical as far as the upstream/downstream xfer goes. I would imagine you need at least 7-10 seconds in order to measure the speed accurately when you account for the propogation delay, handshakes, etc. I imagine 33MB is generally plenty...most people don't check in with an unmetered gigibit device You're welcome and I look forward to seeing what you are working on! I definitely will be one of your frequent visitors; this is by far the most realistic and accurate site I have found thus far for bandwidth tests. I can't stand speedtest.net, etc. with those silly .swf apps that look like a speedometer or whatever. Take care, talk with you soon . Zac

Test ran 235.3Mbps (28.7 MB/s) Down & 122.4Mbps (15.3 MB/s) Upstream This is, of course, not your typical home computer. This is my dedicated Centos box with two 1Gbps Connections, unmetered, no throttling. I pay $490 per month for this machine and the 12 IP addresses on it. Not bad for such a blazing fast machine...it is awesome! I have actually seen through the network monitors on the box, with simultaneous connections from multiple VM's that I was transferring files from...I have seen >60MB/s on the downstream node and the upstream was doing about 20 MB/s....it was close to 700 Mb/s together so it was pushing one ofo those gigibit connections pretty close! Awesome site here - and great job with the coding! Zac