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No problem, glad to help. Thank you too. I sell advertising but try to not over do it. Huge segments of TMN's traffic never even see an ad. ISPs and other entities have offered to pay for analytics, many times. Instead of just giving them what they want I'm building TMN to do it for me. Instead of sharing the information with only those who pay for it TMN aims to share all of its collected information with everyone, for free. (within the privacy policy guidelines of course) -- with help from those requests the information presented here will become more and more detailed in future versions.

i use an older version of opera (presto) for reading mostly text & some images, and RSS feeds. i'm still pissed that opera removed most of its features when it jumped to webkit.

web... damn the javascript in tbhis new board code is madly slow in opera. and the reply box doesn't work with javascript turned off. wtf --- ^ i know it's bothersome but isn't that the point of permissions, to avoid misuse of files by hackers or other people who may be using your computer? although it is weird that an OS upgrade would make you lose your permissions if you usually login with admin/root privileges

Mine reports lower too. But if you take everything into account, from start to finish.. it adds up. Sorry you're not getting the results you'd like to see. If you think I'm wrong... use the other guys. There are no lies going on here. Calling it how I see it. Others see it differently. TMN isn't as easy. If you show me actual evidence that proves that the numbers reported are incorrect I'll take the time to make it right. But the only instance I've seen where it's not spot on (with the upload test) is when a client has over 300 Mbps upload speed. The max 33MB upload test is too small for connections that fast. I'm working to make it better. Other tests out there are shooting to give you the best number so they do things like multithread and adjust the worst out of the result. I feel my method is more realistic, it uploads files the same way you'd upload a file to any site and times the process. Not much to go wrong. If you want to know your best case scenario you're not in the right place. I'm not here to stroke your ego. If you want to be realistic and see numbers that represent what you can expect to really see, then TMN is the right test for you. Like I said, I upload faster than my results show too. But TMN is taking more than the middle of the result after it's rapped up into account, it's calculated from initiation to end. From the moment that orange box disappears till the page changes. If you're able to initiate the test faster, you'll score better. Outside of the test I notice that I'll upload much faster at first then in time it will drop down closer to the reading that TMN shows. Stream casters (e.g. twitch.tv users) love the upload test here because it represents their single thread speed to be expected, the real streamable bandwidth. I've heard them say (in many how to stream tutorials across the net) that numbers from other speed tests like speedtest.net will cause their stream to lag and have issues because the numbers they report are higher than the connection can actually handle. I read them saying, "only use TestMy.net." -- and "as long as I set my stream quality slightly lower than TMN reports, no issues."

It might be worth your time to research OOKLA and how they measure throughput. OOKLA (Speedtest uses the OOKLA FLASH based speed test) drops out of the calculation the top and bottom 10% - claiming they represent outliers. Then they drop another 20% off the bottom - assuming those values represent ramp-up. That leaves the 30% to 90% group for the measurement. I find the testmy.net large file size test to provide the most representative evaluation of my service provider. I see the ramp-up, then the surge (that my provider utilizes) and then the leveling off at my paid for throughput rate. Aside from all that it seems bad form to begin a conversation by calling people liars. OOKLA is showing the speed during what they perceive as the optimum 60% of the throughput speed. I suspect you are comparing apples and oranges.

looking good, keep visiting and tell your friends about this site you wanted me to explain what happend the default TCP settings on win 98 and ME is basicly made for LAN connections with very low ping if you have a low ping you wont need a big receivebuffer ( RWIN ) to get a fast transfer rate here is a defenition of RWIN "DefaultRcvWindow - This parameter determines the maximum TcpReceiveWindow size offered by the system. The receive window specifies the number of bytes a sender may transmit without receiving an acknowledgment. In general, larger receive windows will improve performance over high (delay * bandwidth ) networks. For highest efficiency, the receive window should be an even multiple of the TCP Maximum Segment Size (MSS)." the RWIN can be calculated, if you know the MSS, latency and the Bandwidth your ISP offer VanBuren