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Hi all, I am Mike C, aka mc3research. I've been benchmarking computers and their networks since 1977, worked for some large tech companies both at the bits and bytes level and at the business unit management level. Most recently I managed strategy for a telecom products company at the officer level. I'm now doing research projects in a fairly wide range of areas. Benchmarking, testing and tweaking has been a love of mine from the beginning. My first effort, in 1978, demonstrated that the Motorola 6502 processor on the Apple IIe could outperform the college's mainframe when the right programming approach was used. My other interests are photonics/optoelectronics, modeling and neural networks, IR lasers, UV radiation, and "personal data management" (the structure and tools for individuals to collect, protect, manage and access information about themselves, and the ability to selectively grant others access to subsets of that information). I'm also very interested in information storage, search and retrieval, and the evolution of internet-based structured information access (e.g., semantic web). I'm also very interested in public policy formation, particularly in economics and education. Outside the technosphere (somewhat) I love collecting and archiving writings, and developing high performance access methods to the writings. At present, my non-fiction archive is roughly one million documents consuming 600GB (and growing). I've been an avid reader and student of J. R. R. Tolkien's writing since 1966 -- a bit before Peter Jackson's time; I've worked hard (albeit sporadically) to collect his works (and meaningful writings about then). I've lectured globally and published on emerging technologies and the intersection of socio-economic trends with technology development. My thanks to CA3LE for this site. It is my "gold standard" of speed measurement. mikec

The only worries I have when upgrading any linux distro are normally related to hardware drivers, normally ones for my wifi and video card. If you are not using them (I think ubuntu makes it pretty clear if you are) then you normally shouldn’t worry about upgrading to the latest supported release. Now If Mr Valve / Steam (Gabe) would actually get behind his support for Linux, I wouldn’t have any reason to use windows at all

You sound like you'll fit right in around here, welcome to testmy.net

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First and formost, thanks for a brilliant website! Ive often mused about the speedtest sites and how pointless they are. Not just from the blatant biased reports they offer, but also beacuse peoples perception of internet performace is so rarely corrolated with their advertised connection speeds and attainable bandwith I thumbed up your post in the FAQ section on why you do this and take a hit for it! Have you considered adding a flattr button to your website? What I would really love though, would be some more servers based in other parts of the world. I realise this might be problematic in some instances, but I would be most interested in seeing that! Keep up the good work!

I find it so amuseingly ironic, that the closest most users (inculdeing me) get to acheiveing their advertised speeds is via things like newsgroups and p2p. They being 2 of the transport mechanisms that get aggresively bandwith profiled the most. I realise there are masses of factors that influence this, but I worry about the internet and the growing prevalnce of level 2 networks. People like things to work nice, and for the most part in my experiance dont really know / care about how thats acheived.