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Unfortunately, Geo-Location by IP address is not an exact science - or a science at all, really. (Click the spoiler for the boring comparison part) An IP Address is exactly like a Phone Number, given my IP 10.0.0.5, my physical neighbour is NOT guaranteed to have IP Address 10.0.0.4, nor 10.0.0.6. So how do we find out where you are located by it? We attempt to determine where the home-network for that IP claims it is "physically located." We use WHOIS API's (ARIN, RIPE NCC, AFRINIC, APNIC, LACNIC) to determine what the "location" of the IP address is. To give you an example, my IP Address is in the following block: 68.37.128.0 - 68.37.255.255. Testmy.net thinks my IP Address is from Jersey City, NJ. I will tell you for a fact, I do not live in Jersey. I live in the Detroit Metro Area, Michigan. Unfortunately, ARIN does not realize that COMCAST gave me an IP Address that is from New Jersey, so Testmy.net thinks I am currently in New Jersey. This issue is by design, the IPv4/IPv6 protocols were never designed to allow geo-locating a user to any degree of certainty. They were always designed to allow anonymity. That being said, there are ways to more accurately pinpoint a users location. If I do a tracert to Testmy.net, I find that my data goes from 10.0.0.1 (my gateway) to *.hsd1.mi.comcast.net, allowing me to surmise that I am SOMEWHERE in Michigan. As the tracert continues, my data goes through several more nodes, to the node just before TMN: *.dal05.networklayer.com, which gives me the impression that Testmy.net is located in or near Dallas, TX. (It is in fact in Dallas, we should all know this for fact.) So, as for why you are 2000% above your city average today, but maybe not tomorrow: when you reset your modem, if your ISP gives you a new IP address, it may show you as being in another city. Regardless if you are or not. I implore you to click "my city average" and compare what city it lists to what city you actually live in. If you look at this list (https://testmy.net/city/jersey_city_nj -> Member Rank) you will see myself (nanobot) at the top of the list for Jersey City, NJ. Unfortunately, I got my gas bill this week: right-proper addressed to E. Brown, New Baltimore, MI. And believe when I say, this is not a TMN issue, this is intentional. If you use any proxy servers you can even more-so assuredly bet that your city will be even more wrong. Thanks, EBrown

I started an auto download test, 15 minutes x 100 tests on XP SP3 IE 8.0.6001 with no problems. (will leave it run) I would start first checking addons and extensions to the browser, turn them off until the test works.