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I have some new tools coming out! And I mean NEW! If you'd like to get an invite when a new Beta is available simply vote on this topic. Currently no ETA but development is moving quickly. I'd like people who are willing to provide feedback but it's not necessary. Just running the program will give me a lot of useful information.

My beta gives anyone the ability to run TMN on any computer they'd like. Run it locally on a Docker images I've prepared for you or install it on any web sever, with or without SSL. It only takes 2 files, a total of 1800 bytes of code on your end. What speed will you see between two wired 1 GbE? Exactly what you'd expect to see, watch for yourself. tmn-on-my-server.mp4 The Mac and Windows machines are fairly distant, non-direct routes. The connection traverses 2 switches, then the router, then another switch also adding in about 100 ft of cable before it arrives. Not lab conditions, I wanted all of those real world variables. If you inspect I think you'll agree, TMN's results are pretty exact. tl&dr So average 916 Mbps | 904 Mbps. Adding 6% network overhead you get to 971 Mbps | 958 Mbps. Which is right in line with what we see coming across the interface in reality. I did the same LAN testing when developing the current version (v18) you're using now, always do. But now I'm giving the ability to do it yourself, super quick. ... I've also done that before but not like this. This is very different. Cut and paste a few commands into Terminal or PowerShell and you're running local tests on all your devices in a few seconds. You can also audit all of the code and understand the entire container in just a few seconds. Pretty excited to share that with you all. Curious how people will use it.

I hope everyone enjoyed Family, football and food. Peace

Same from me . God bless all of you. Don't eat until you explode.

Instructions to Enable the Beta are in the Private area. The beta is private but members with access are allowed to share instructions. Please use this public forum for all threads related to Beta 23. If you encounter any issues or bugs please copy the URL in your browser and include it with your post. This helps reproduce the issue. Screen recordings are also very helpful. Start new topic Happy Testing!

Welcome! If you go to My Settings you can add an identifier. Select something like "Location 1" when you're connected to router #1... then "Location 2" for the second. You can then filter your results by identifier under My Results. Let me know if this helps.

To you's & your family!

Happy Thanksgiving everyone!

I thought this was kinda funny, did a combined test and got the exact same 767.2Mbps on both upload and download. Had to giggle at this one.

Based on how the Beta seems to function, I would think it would be a prime opportunity to add a "dual" test, which simultaneously runs both upload and download. This would be nice for testing in enterprises that have their own data-centers and host VPN/Web/etc. traffic, as they can find out what types of bandwidth carving they should do. I.e., if my Buckeye 1-gig fiber supports a full-duplex 1-gig, then I don't have to worry as much about having a good upload speed when someone else is using my network. But if it's a half-duplex 1-gig, then it changes how I might want to carve out bandwidth. Just a thought, would be an interesting metric to add. Could be a purple double-arrow in the results that indicates the combined speed as well, since it's not a pure upload/download, but a "dual" / "simultaneous" / "mixed" test.

Here's a photo I took yesterday. We had 77% coverage where I'm at. A Sun spot made it look kinda like Pac Man for a little bit. (the sun spot was visible in other photos so I know it wasn't an artifact) Taken on an S22 Ultra, using the 10X lens through solar filter glasses, manual focus and exposure.

Wel that was fast , gonna try out right now

I like it. Both are good. After a lot of testing and tweaking I've got the maximum speed out of my connection: about 10% more than the plan (a $10/month one) is supposed to supply. testmy.net was a big help. It might be slow for a lot of people, but it suits my needs. Thanks

CA3LE thanks for combining my posts the .GIF was an afterthought. Since Thanksgiving is finished for this year I thought I would link an old topic, I must have PMed water the complete instructions. I though they were all in the topic but they were not. Any way she followed them close enough & said her turkey turned out well. I've cooked about 36 more turkeys this way since the topic. I wish I still had the complete instructions written. I do not need them for myself but if anyone else wanted them. https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/9268-turkey-time-and-a-huge-waste-of-money/#comment-96374

CA3LE I decided to install a fresh Firefox portable also. Something must have corrupted this browser also. The fresh copy seems to work for the tests. I ran my antivirus & it did not find anything. So I do not know why the portable browsers got corrupted. For right now the problem is gone. I also tried the corrupt version again & it has the lag problem. So it has to be a corrupt file in it.

Eventually, T-Mobile got whatever was needed with the local towers done. It STILL fluctuates wildly, but it USUALLY stays at a speed that makes things usable. At good times it runs quite well. It's better than the DSL we had. and cheaper. Unfortunately, I guess that makes the best answer is to keep calling T-Mobile when it sucks, go through umpteen "support" people, generally be a pain in the *ss, and have graphs like the above that show how inconsistent their service is. With a little luck, after 4 - 5 months, hopefully they'll get things to the point where the service doesn't drop to zero, and will mostly work most of the time! If you're lucky, it'll work well enough you rarely get buffering on the 480p tv, and downloads will be reasonably fast.

Looks like they're in Pakistan. blackcobracatcher's Speed Test Results If your only seeing 2-8 Mbps here at TestMy.net then chances are you don't really have 500 Mbps. You may see great speed nearby but the internet tends to be everywhere. 🤔 Imagine this, I'm in Pakistan and I setup a 10 Gbps network in my neighborhood and get all of my 200+ neighbors to sign up. They're all super excited because after I get them connected I show them they're getting 10 Gbps using my speed test (testing against servers hosted over at my house... shhh, don't tell them that). Imagine I have 4 connections out, a few 10 Gbps connections that connect me to other local/regional ISPs but I only have 1x10 Gbps that peers well internationally. Depending on the routing, time of day and what the other neighbors are doing a customer might get 10 Gbps but may also hit the bottleneck of those connections out of the network. This is the same thing ISPs do all over the world. They oversell network capacity. You're always going to lose speed at distance but higher quality hosts/connections will take better, more direct routes and have higher capacity. You definitely shouldn't drop to 2% of the connection speed. And if that's what TestMy.net is showing you, that's what you're really getting. At least to and from the location you have selected (Florida). Here's my connection speed nearby, I'm in Colorado Springs - testing Colorado Springs TestMy.net Test ID : 2h874_xfA.hbMDDdqXt And here's to my hardest to reach locale, India. TestMy.net Test ID : L5axksd8f.xOMgtA8Sl So I'm running at 28% Download and 47% Upload I usually get my worst connection speeds to India. Testing against UK, still international and about 5000 miles I get better results. TestMy.net Test ID : ZwxVufpxD.lJx2Jf4FV 50% Download and 69% Upload. And I usually see better results than that. ?t=u&l=50&z=65&q=CA3LE's Speed Test Results This is my consumer home connection, using commercial connections gives much better results at distance. You're hitting a bottleneck somewhere. Other speed tests may paint a different picture. You should probably stop using them. Those other tests are often made by entities who have an interest in showing you a better result. I don't. I really don't care how you score. I only care to show you the truth in the best way I know. When you test at TestMy.net the servers are hosted under the most popular VPS hosts, currently Vultr is carrying the majority of my bandwidth (unbiased hosting). Where other speed tests are reported to remove certain portions of the result and highlight others; which often makes things appear faster, TestMy.net always calculates your result simply and transparently using size/time = speed. Let me put it this way, I wish everyone could see and understand the code behind TestMy.net. If you did you'd know that it's actually impossible for it to show you 8 Mbps unless you actually have 8 Mbps. The test wants to run full throttle, unless it's being restricted in some way. So it HAS to be restricted to get the results you're seeing. My guess is a bottleneck coming out of your ISP and Pakistan but it could be a number of issues that other tests for some reason never seem to notice. But if it's slowing down TestMy.net, you're being slowed down. Other speed tests obviously have different goals than TestMy.net. As @xs1 said, try selecting different mirrors. You may get better results on a server closer to you but you still shouldn't be getting such a poor result to Florida. Run some tests against IN, UK and DE to see what your results look like. Let me know when you're done and I'll post your results here in the forum for you.

Waving from the sunny Island of Grenada. It is lovely to be far away from bigger lands unless it comes to Internet. 😆 Hope to find answers here with regards to my PING issues. My ISP seems to be lost... pothoun

Click [Customize] then select 500 MB max. I may change the default after we get going.

With a slower upload speed or higher latency it interferes with the normal flow. If the requests are lagged it will affect the result. With 100+ smaller requests the connection has to negotiate each one. The latency and upload can effect this. This will be less pronounced with linear because we don't have to keep initiating requests over and over. I went around and around with this one, trying to get those connections to ramp up quicker. Originally I was trying to make the test ramp up quicker by adjusting test parameters for that situation. Then realized that it's only doing what it's supposed to do. This happens when the connection is weak, it's only showing you what happened. If something slows down the requests or the process... it affects the end result. So keep in mind when you're using the beta, it's splitting the multithread process much more than my previous version. 100 elements for < 1MB tests and 200 elements beyond that, where the production multithread at 10MB you only open 12 threads and 200MB opens 30 threads. Big difference. The beta is more demanding. The difference is before I adjusted the process to meet the connection. Smaller tests were done with less elements. I've decided going forward that TMN shouldn't scale based on the connection, rather measure every connection the same. As the linear test does. Remember I'm only talking about the multithread process. The beta upload test works the same way, 100 and 200 elements. A couple of things to can do. Click [customize] and Enable Linear Boost or test linear on connections like that one. I've seen that too, always on crappy connections. I think you're right about it being due to packet loss. I'm going to see about detecting when a thread gets stuck like that and then reinitiate that thread and report the event in the results. It's all about how the data is being rendered. The beta is an entirely new test with different variables. These new variables seem to favor more modern connection types because they're better designed for this type of load. A bunch of small requests may be harder to render in some cases than a few large ones. But that's what we're here to test.

Hey there, fellow Testmynet users! 😊 I'm thrilled to be a part of this awesome forum, discussing all things speed tests and bandwidth with all of you. You can call me Catbear 🐱🐻 – it's a fun combo! I hail from the vicinity of Hamburg, Germany, and at 25 years old, I'm still relatively young. Technology and internet connections have always fascinated me. 💻🌐 Recently, I decided to bid farewell to my old internet connection and upgrade to a brand-new Cable internet line. The whole experience of installing it alongside the technician was a rollercoaster ride of excitement, opening up a whole new world of possibilities! 🚀🔧 My provider now offers an incredible speed of up to 1150 Mbps! On average, I'm hitting around 1100 Mbps down and 50 Mbps up – mind-blowing, right? It's the fastest connection I've ever experienced, and I can't wait to explore all the opportunities it brings. 😍💨 To tap into this high-speed connection, I've got a snazzy 2.5Gbit network card, paving the way to the online wonderland. My trusty router is the FritzBox 6690, which has been a reliable companion so far. 📶💼 I'm stoked to share my experiences with all of you in this forum and learn from your stories as well. If any of you use similar tech or have tackled similar challenges, I'm here to help with any questions or advice. Let's exchange ideas and make the most of this tech-savvy community! 💬🤝 Once again, a big thank you for welcoming me into this fantastic community. I'm excited to see what the future holds for internet connections and technology for all of us. 🌟🚀 Best regards, Catbear 🐱🐻

I am not sure if I messed up the designation between B and b (Bits and Bytes). I did find the problem and I was shocked to be honest, my ASUS Strix Z-490 E Gaming MB has VI and I found it had the OBS Streaming set to Low which I guess was causing all the problems. I changed that setting to extreme (which is what iRacing is set at) I set the OBS to 10000 kbps and since then I have not had a single issue of dropped anything and am in the bitrate suggested for 3440x1440 If anything changes or I find I start getting more dropped frames I will update this thread

Well then you might be amused by this: Crank the volume to 11. https://www.tcw.org/Got%20the%20Spectrum%20Blues.mp3 Got the Spectrum Blues.mp3

I followed your advice to reboot modem, router, computer. Speeds now back to normal in Firefox, my default. Also normal in Chrome and Edge, which I had not tested before. Thank you. Terry 6/26/23

Admin, If you send me your email address to the email address I used to register at your site, or just email me, I will bcc copy you on selected email conversations, rather than quotes, with a Spectrum VP of Operations. Regarding downgrading: In 2021, amidst the pandemic, I was using a VPN and Tor to do my Dark Web research for my third and fourth books. Was also playing with a VM. 100 Mbps wasn’t cutting it, I was also wireless at this point so I had that degradation despite upgrading my router to Wi-Fi 6 and network cards to wireless 802.11 ac/ax. So I upgraded to their 300Mbps service and saw no improvement. So I started testing and emailing results, writing and producing a song rhyming Spectrum with Rectum, and after several months of insisting that I was the problem, they (a VP) reduced my price. To me this was an admission of guilt. Meanwhile they say they bumped my service to 400Mbps. I believe this is a marketing technique to justify steady price increases and ward away potential competition in the area. Then in 2023 they sent me a notice that I have a free upgrade to 500Mbps, them not knowing about the whole letting sleeping dogs lie thing. So I started testing again, only now with Cat6/7 wired Ethernet, and could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet. More like 90Mbps with FTP even then. I suspected that they could not actually deliver a 1000Mbps service to my rural area, wanted to prove it, so I upgraded to that and again could only get that speed inside of 200 miles within their INTRAnet. I don’t really need 1000, 500 would be fine if I could actually get it. There is no evidence that I can. Yet because of this corporate monopoly, if I downgrade to 500 I will still pay the same $100 per month. So I am stuck in some Charter Marketing Catch-22 bullshit here. Hence the pissed off nature of my correspondence, and my continuing persistent and relentless battle. Thank you for our response and advice, MFP

I figured it out and got it fixed!! I found a program from Intel that checked my network connection and drivers and used it to update my driver. I'm getting download speeds from around 3.6 Mb up to 5.0 Mb.

Hi Sean, I made some adjustments, when you enable "Linear Load" it will modify the Upload page to direct you to the legacy upload test. This doesn't work with combined test, using combined test with linear load under the beta will still load the new version. I hope to develop the linear upload test to work with the new graphs but I'm not sure if it's possible yet. It's pretty tricky. Porting the download test over was simple. The problem has to do with a limitation of a certain browser API. The current version will remain available, I have no plans to get rid of that. If I can't get it to work exactly the way I want... then I'll just integrate the old version, minus the extra graphing on the upload.

they won't . not in SEA asia sure. ALL of their ISPs seem to use Speedtest dot net as a standard. and they're obviously bribing Speedtest to get the results they want. but AFAIK speedtests to USA servers are still kind of accurate... as in they're definitely much lower than the expected 100 mbps for me. i'm suppose to get 500 mbps but i am limited by hardware and USA bandwidth that is very obviously throttled.

There’s an Export button under the plots on the Results page

Just confirming that I would love to try the BETA when it releases.

try the following command: iperf3 -c iperf.astra.in.ua -P 10 Let us know if it's any better

You can definitely see in the video something is compressing the data on the back end, primarily on the large file sizes; Almost like a download booster, or something of that nature. I use brave right now, and chrome for sites brave is blocking something needed, which i run into from time to time. oh, and btw, both the gif and the mkv worked fine for me, lol.

Hey Everybody I work for a Call Center and have not a big clue of PINGs and traceroutes etc. However the PING is poor and the European Call Center tells me, my ISP is able to do something to improve it. The ISP however seems to be a at a loss. I hid the server in Europe. The first IP is mine. Up to line 10 are all IP adresses from my ISP. So in my point of view - which of course is just the opinion of a non-expert - they could do something to improve which would then help lower the final ping. Is this wrong thinking? And I am quite worried, that line 2 is already timing out. Hope you can shed some light on this issue. Thank you all!

Can confirm, tyvm!

I can't finish it until at least Friday but I'll let you know as soon as it's ready. 😀

You can't add tests that have already been performed. This works by creating side databases and then querying the new data stored. You would create a project (just enter a name), it then generates a URL (a simple 5 character key). After you visit the URL on the client machine it instructs TMN to additionally store the results in the project's side database. You'd then run your tests, going from area to area... giving each unique sub ID's. Along the way from the My Project screen you'll see the number of results and averages for each sub-project. You can then query each database individually. After the system sees that 2 or more sub-project databases have results for a given project it will then display the option to aggregate the databases together for you on the fly. From that you can see all of the results and differentiate between each of your sub-projects results. You can then click 'export' and dump all the results to CSV, again aggregated with all of the data included to help you differentiate the results. I think this will be especially helpful for your use case but home users can benefit as well. Being able to go from room to room and quickly switch the project to help build a map of possible weak areas. It's like identifiers on a much deeper level... and then the identifiers can be used on top of this if that helps some people. Great idea dude, I can't wait for you to put it to use. I don't know how useful QR codes will really be... but I'm having fun.

Unless there's an issue with the gateway itself, the ISP should only "update" or need for a restart at most, once a month, if that. There has to be in issue with your gateway, or a signal loss issue with the connection itself for it to restart that many times. There's been months before my ISP needed to refresh/change IP or update the config. Id check with comcast to see what's going on. Possibly a bad power supply to the gateway? Gateway itself overheating? Bad power strip? There has to be a cause. This type of behavior is not normal.

Hey, That's fantastic! Thank you so much for inviting me to the Beta testing phase! 😎 I'm really looking forward to trying out the new tests and putting my internet connection through its paces. Too bad I don't have my own server, but I'll give it my all on my local network! 💪 Your advice about not taking things at face value and doing our own checks is spot on. Trust is good, but a little verification never hurts! 🕵️‍♀️ I'm really excited to see what my connection is capable of. Thanks also for the warm welcome! It's really cool to connect with like-minded internet enthusiasts like you guys. 🤗 I can't wait to share my experiences in the forum and read about others' stories. Together, we'll conquer the internet! By the way, I've already voted for the Beta! 🗳️ Thank you for giving me the opportunity to be part of this exciting phase! Thanks again for the response and the sweet compliment on my connection. I love hearing that! Let's rock this Beta! 🚀 Cheers, Catbear 🐱🐻

Thank you that is very helpful information and I will make sure to check out the beta test.

Welcome @Little Banshee! TestMy.net is currently only testing your single file transfer performance (on upload). This is close to what you'll see if you try and upload a single file somewhere. This also shows you what kind of streaming quality your connection is capable of. If you tried to stream over 70 Mbps, you'd probably have issues. My new beta is built around a multithread upload test. Join us in testing >> https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/34612-beta-testers-welcome/ The multithread upload test will help you see how fast you are when you combine multiple transfers together. Comparing the two tests helps you understand your connection better.

I have been a Google painted tester for several years now, with countless hours under my belt as well as detailed logs of any errors as well as any positive info regarding the apps I'm trusted to beta test. Look forward to your swift response eh' 🤙🇨🇦 Out of curiosity if you enjoy testing tools a lot it seems very productive if you just start building your own that way you know the intention and what went into building the tool as well as testing the operation, and verifying the code and proper working order. I mean obviously you know all that but that's all. Start going crazy and building tools for problems that people have but don't know they need.

Every connection is obviously unique. In my case, I find that linear works better because of routing. If the other servers/connections on the "multi" test are poor routing it'll generally slow down the entire test. Now in other cases, multi-thread works better on my connection if the routing is ideal for all servers/connections involved. There are alot of variables involved. Firstly, That test is inconsistent, hot garbage. 🥴 Lastly, I'm going to be honest with you bud, I dont appreciate the disrespect your coming with right now. Firstly, there are thousands of people with actual fiberoptic & datacenter level connections who pull ungodly speeds from testmy.net & its host. Bandwidth & server specs are absolutely not in play here. TMN is on a 10 gig backbone. I have a 1 gig symmetric connection and pull in cases over 1.3 gbit. Last thing you'll do here is shit on this site. Its apparent you have issues with your cable connection & im sorry to see this, but that's on you & your ISP. There's a few things to remember. This site and speed tests are absolutely free. The info you find here is also free. The assistance you are provided is FREE. So do us all a favor and tone down that bullshit negativity towards @CA3LE and this site we have all been members of for over a decade+. If you feel you are the end all be all of knowledge in computers and networking, than figure it out, or switch ISPs to verify your problem with Spectrum cable. Otherwise, keep using other sites like ookla (speedtest.net) that throw overhead in, to bloat the results & make the end user feel better about their max connection speeds, rather than real life performance.

You're on the list. Hoping to have something to show you very soon.

Well when I had Frontier dsl at least I knew I was getting all of the 1Mbps that they had for me. <g>

I've used it today and the results are all better than before, in both places. The upload differential is still the same, no matter what I use, but I was rather expecting that. I figure I won't get true full bandwidth until I get somewhere that I can use Fiber.

Me too, hated that. Had AOL for a few months back in the dial-up days. Funny side story, related to TMN: A 15 year-old friend of mine was the master admin at a local dial-up ISP, he basically built and ran the whole thing for them and had been doing it for years before I met him. Gave me a lifetime free account, he moved on from there like a year later. But I ended up having dial-up until they stopped doing it like 10 years later. Helped me continue to real-world test dial-up here, for freeeee. The Sound of dial-up Internet.mp3 Came in handy on the road too. And they were always super fast! Always connecting at the max 56K! Ahhh, simpler times. Remember you'd have a 56K modem and AOL (USWest did this to me too.) would connect at 28.8K or 33.6K, "what the hell good is this modem if nobody let's me connect at 56K!?" -- 28.8K to 56K was a big deal, but AOL was big time overcrowded. Check out the 8 different types of dial-up sounds, some you may not have heard. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dial-up_Internet_access I think it was a 9600 baud modem that I used to connect to my first BBS. 9.6 Kbps or 1.2 kB/s. Now, the worst I ever see on my phone is 0.08 Mbps or 80 Kbps, 8X faster at it's slowest and that feels painful! Slower than that and it's not connecting reliably at all. At one time 80 Kbps was fast, it's all relative. One day we'll say the same about Gigabit. Kids will be like, "Great-Grandpa, what came before Exabyte internet? Mommy says you used to have Jibby-Byte internet!" "One point twenty-one JIGGA-WATTS!" 1.21 gigawatts？! - Dr. Brown & Marty - Back to the future.mp3

I wouldn't worry too much about it in that case, FIOS/Frontier told me the same thing about their routers... I eliminated their equipment all together and bought an Asus RT-AX82U.. never looked back. As long as the update/config files are accepted normally & speeds are decent, Im currently running 2 PC's wired, and 23 devices wireless. I dont worry about the ISP's "recommendations". lol Depending on your areas provisioning & congestion speeds will vary. Even on my 1g/1g fiber, there are times of day where ill see as low as 400/600. edit for image:

Glad we could help 😎

"Speedcheck.org" uses Ookla in the background and whatever server/connection they are using is trash. "wifiman.com" seems to have a legit backbone. (granted I have quite a few file sharing(s) going at the moment) As far as Testmy.net goes, with a 20mbit upload your test should be fine.. Connections over a couple hundred mbit struggle here, on this current revision. @CA3LE will be releasing a new revision of the current Testmy.net testing methodology soon to handle excessive upload speeds, as well as some new tweaks. You have to remember, there are alot of factors when it comes to internet speeds. Location, route, congestion, etc. Have you tried changing your server & testing on others? https://testmy.net/mirror Also, this may be worth checking out if you hadn't already; Another good one to check out is here: https://www.waveform.com/tools/bufferbloat ----------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------

1996 is when it all started by the way. Wish I still owned the old domain name, swapped it out in 2001 and then let the old one expire on accident. Guys, I've been building this 27 years! It's still only 2% of the vision, which continues to evolve over time. Hopefully the new version gets in front of even more eyes and with the new visuals more people understand what we're trying to show them here.