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Over the decades I've always strived to have the fastest servers I can afford to host TestMy.net. My journey with hosting has taken me into a colocated datacenter where I pay for cabinet space, power & internet connection and bring in my own equipment. When I first started using colo I built everything out with brand new, current generation servers and networking gear. Over the years I added servers and built up a High Availability Proxmox cluster. Adding servers I found that eBay was definitely my friend. Now I could afford servers that only a few years earlier often went for nearly 10X what I was able to get them for "off lease". Each time I added a new server, it was more powerful than the previous. Over this time I'm adding more resources, things are getting faster. Even my first servers were full solid state, employing arrays of 4 Samsung 850 Pro SSDs. But things really started flying with the advent of Optane storage. A game changer... really, it was too good. (and now it's gone.) Fast forward to 2024. I get a generous donation of servers, the person doesn't care what I do with them, they're just happy to give them to me. They're newer than my servers, 2nd version into the next generation of CPU. So quite a bit newer. I get one of them setup with the same Optane storage I run in my current master server and start benchmarking. It's not really faster and doesn't justify switching servers. Sometimes it was slower. I assume because my servers are higher clock speed, highest end of the CPU SKU. Scratching my head, I really thought being so much newer I'd get a much better result. I take the storage out and pop it in a gaming rig... another machine recently donated to me by a friend. This PC happens to have hardware from the same year as the server I just tested. I run the same tests and had to do a double take. Not only was it faster on the gaming rig, it was WAY faster. This made me reimagine my server topology. Maybe it was time to build with consumer hardware. Here I had a setup that was a fraction of the cost that was out performing in real world scenarios. The better single thread performance and higher clock speed, faster memory... it all makes sense. There's more competition in the consumer market, things cost less. So I sold those servers to someone who can better utilize their resources. Extremely nice servers but for my use case here, they had too much of everything. As soon as they were sold I ordered parts for my next build. Promptly put it together and got to testing. Minimum, 2.5x faster at everything. Average is 3x faster and in some cases I've seen over 6x faster. It has completely blown me away. What is the magical setup? Nothing much really, minus storage I think it cost my about $900, including a piKVM setup to remotely control the machine. Much less than any of my used enterprise servers cost me. Here's my build. AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core, 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series (Intel XMP 3.0) DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) 5600MT/s CL28-34-34-89 Optane 905p (zpool) and Samsung 960 Pro (OS) ASUS Prime B650-PLUS WiFi ID-COOLING IS-40-XT Black - 47mm Height Low Profile CPU Cooler EVGA 750 BP, 80+ Bronze 750W PSU Rosewill 2U Server Chassis RSV-Z2900U BTF-LIGHTING WS2812B 2PCs 19in Individually Addressable 2GB Raspberry pi4 Geekworm KVM-A8 (kit for building a piKVM) 10G network card It's only a 65 watt TDP CPU! very easy to cool in a constrained (or SFF) build like this. A single half dollar sized CPU out performs all of my dual Xeon systems. Yes, I can't run a terabyte of RAM with this setup but I don't need to. My current systems are 128GB, I figure I only really really need 64GB with this CPU backing the system. Especially in single thread performance the new Ryzen system blows all my other systems away. This type of gain will be felt everywhere, especially in mysql queries and responsiveness. It still excels in multithread and even has a larger cache than my Xeons. It really wins for me on every level. And yes, RGB was a requirement. I never put RGB in a computer, not really my thing. But I figure this is a gaming PC at its core so for $13, why not. I can control them in linux but it adds a bunch of unnecessary packages, I like my base PVE to be as simple as possible. So default rainbow it is. lambo-2025-lq2.mp4 I haven't been necessarily doing it wrong all these years. Without the low TDP and high performance of the 9700X this build would be more challenging. These are recent developments. There's basically zero redundancy in this server. So, it also helps having a PVE cluster that has a bunch of reliable machines, to back up this consumer grade hardware. I can't wait to bring Lambo into production!

Well said. TestMy.net started in 2001... but my first internet speed test became popular in 1996, on accident. Was pretty crazy trying to run it early on, not knowing anything. No real tools to even learn online yet either. I hope one day more people find TestMy.net again. I'll just keep building.

I was looking to see when Testmy.net started as I Swear (Even though my profile says 2009) I came across this site approx Sept or Oct of 2001 or 2002. I lost my login info and think I had to start over in 2009 as I know I used the site in 2005 as I was always testing the Internet at a club I did music for . Back to the Title, Being a site for 5+ Years prior to speedtest why do you think they have more visitors (or considered #1 Site to test)? I have my opinion. Also I have yet to have a ISP ever tell me to use this site though have had them argue with me about the results until I show the history and when the speed dropped as well as consistency in the results My Opinion, I think a lot of people do not like the facts or truth even if ignoring it is detrimental , Would rather have results that match what the ISP says and they pay, when they get the accurate results more than likely it is not what they want to or have seen, Plus when you go say something to say Xfinity or Other ISP's that you feel the sped is not what you pay for they want you to test where they know they will get a higher speed and it is hard to argue with that unless you have been doing this awhile and have had to deal with all the scripts they read that state it is on the customer end, I can list things till my KB wears out Honestly I think the only times I knew for sure it had to be either a Xfinity issue (Or 1 time iRacing Server issue) was thanks to be able to test here and use my history or results to compare with. Sadly until they make a set of test parameters/Rules as far as Internet Speed Testing a lot of people will be missing out on the bigger picture about their connection speed. I am just thankful we have Testmy.net as a tool to use as well as all the Time and $$ CA3LE has spent on the site

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Funny how you mentioned yo do not play games back in 2008 I was building the armor plating for the MRAP (Mine resistant Ambush Protected) Vehicles The same Tan 4X4 Ones we left in Afghanistan they have shown on the news Moving those plates by hand I ended up rupturing a disc in lower back and smashed a nerve disabling me so I was attempting to get a degree in Machine technology, doing CNC Programming on CNC Lathes and Mills but ended up realizing I could not stand for the 4+ Hours at a time needed to do that. anyway to make a Short story long I got a ASUS ROG G73 SW top of the line Gaming Laptop (Late 2010) yet never played a single game till 2019 when I came across iRacing LOL

Hi Jose, When I get a moment I'll add São Paulo for you.

Sorry man, for some reason it got installed in my datacenter. 😜 This server is running TestMy.net now and I definitely feel the difference. Had a few networking issues over the weekend. My pfSense server had issues, something bugged out. It was my oldest VM, maybe it had some kind of legacy setting somewhere causing issues. The backups were jacked as well, so I just deleted it and put up a new one... Not really a big deal, that pfSense router is really only for my internal, non-production network and none of TestMy.net services run through it. So not a big deal, right? WRONG! Side effects are real. I didn't realize that before I had specifically setup pfSense without IPv6. With the default install it ran normally... until I got to my datacenter and reset my switches. I do this sometimes when I visit, just to get a fresh boot on them. Well, most things came back up normally but TMN was down. Everything indicated that it should be up, I'm getting pings all over the place as expected. Why isn't it working? Very stressful situation. This should have been a routine visit to quickly rack the new server. But now, nothing is working right! To make matters worse I'm on my laptop where I'm already not as comfortable working. Connected with hotspot on my phone and I realize that I only have a USB-C cable for my phone and no USB-C on my laptop. My battery's at like 30%. So now it feels like Mission Impossible. I was running in circles at this point, so I took my hands off the keys and thought for 5 minutes. ... then came up with... "Default Route." I look closer at the networking on the host and client. I then see an IPv6 address assigned to an adapter that should only have an internal IPv4 address. This device is connected to a VLAN. So traffic was trying to route out the adapter connected to VLAN. The gotcha is when an IPv6 address is assigned on the same adapter as an IPv4 address that takes an isolated route. Another fix is to tell the adapter "never use as default route". A different VM had a spare network adapter that wasn't configured, had been sitting like that for years. When this happened, it did DHCP, got an IP and then default routed to that adapter. In that case it was an IPv4 address. Same kind of issue, a little different. So I worked out a few kinks. When it came down to it, lambo joined right into the cluster, replicated my VMs and migrated them without issues. The lesson for me, when you're flustered... take a step back and think. The answers often surface.

This is cool, Ive been using or around Testmy.net for a long time, I assume my slower memory recall (Personal) Is due to getting older but it seems like back when I first started using The site I do not remember picking servers or maybe 2 or so been awhile I have my PC 99% for iRacing and I have ASUS STrix Z-490 E Gaming MB i7-10700K 5.2Ghz All Core 32Gb Corsair 2600 DDR4 ROG Strix RTX 3060 Ti OC V2 Corsair 280MM AIO Every item was either from iRacing driver sale or Ebay The most shocking is the GPU it is a Diamond or a Winnining silon ticket as it easily runs at 2100Mhz GPU with 18002Mhz Vram about a 35% boost over V1 cards In mAx power for sure

I thought you were shipping this thing to me ? 😆

@CA3LE what are you running for a GPU in that rig? or AGPU...> My setup is pretty dated.. i just dont use the pc much anymore so I haven't really sunk any money into upgrades (especially the platform) in many years.. ASUS Prime X370-Pro AM4 ATX Motherboard AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core Base Clock 3.0GHz OC @ 4.1 GHz NZXT KRAKEN X73 RGB 360MM AIO LIQUID COOLER W/LCD DISPLAY G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 32GB 288 Pin DDR4 SDRAM 3200 MHz XFX QICK 319 AMD Radeon RX 6800 16GB CORSAIR HXi Series HX1200i 1200W 80 PLUS PLATINUM Full Modular Thermaltake Core P5 ATX Open Frame Panoramic Viewing Tt LCS Certified Gaming Computer Case

Hello Testmy.net Congradulations to have an Excellent Service. Today we have thousands of Internet Speed Tests around the world with speeds up to 1000 Mbps. 10 (ten) GB Speed Test might be a good choice to install in São Paulo, Brazil because most of the population live in the South East. The climate is Brazil is between 26 and 30 ºC Ping from Sao Paulo to Santiago TMN server should be near 50 ms. TMN is excellent to test your Internet Service Provider and fans can enjoy ping test from you location on the following site https://www.meter.net/tools/world-ping-test/ After Dial UP and ADSL Internet, my Internet in 2015 ( ten years ago ) was Internet Fiber with 60/3 Mbps. Today we have more Internet Speed because of TV, YouTube and wireless devices. ❤️

Well, this is the best test results i've ever gotton on my adelphia. ::: Download Stats ::: Connection is: 4136 Kbps about 4.1 Mbps (tested with 1496 KB) Download Speed is: 505 KB/sec Auth Code: 2062041 (validate at http://www.testmy.net) Bottom Line: 74 times faster than 56K you can download 1MB in 2.03 second(s) Validation Link :: https://testmy.net/cgi-bin/auth_check.cgi?ta=&top=&align=&num=2062041&kbps=4136&gen=gen&a=4.57142857142857&b=2.28571428571429&c=1145.14285714286

i also found this post who gets really close to useing wlm 11 https://wink.messengergeek.com/t/windows-live-messenger-2011-connect-to-local-server-is-this-possible/18540 but there is a forum called messenger geek and it has lots of helpful stuff

nice the oldest computer i had in the basement was a powermac G5 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Power_Mac_G5 and its the scary conductive watercooled one because for some reason they put the powersupply under the watercooling system and it would leak and corrode the while thing and since it was conductive it would short some how min hadn't leak

My first PC was a 486 with 40 MHz, Windows 3.11, CRT display, dial-up internet with US Robotics V90 modem. Take care

bro i always wanted something like that i use a dell optiplex 7050 micro as a beam ng drive server and as my gaming pc that was actually good Device name DESKTOP-6IE4HL1 Processor AMD Ryzen 5 1600 Six-Core Processor 3.20 GHz Installed RAM 32.0 GB System type 64-bit operating system, x64-based processor Pen and touch No pen or touch input is available for this display RTX 2080 MSI Sea Hawk x https://www.msi.com/Graphics-Card/GeForce-RTX-2080-SEA-HAWK-X/Specification

it is

for school internet on a low end device thats farly surprizing. bet everythings restricted tho.

Maybe some subscribers like to learn aproximate pings from cities to cities. https://wondernetwork.com/pings ❤️

What is a decent speed for Telstra Broadband in Australia?

Is this what was talked about in the white house earlier??

On a lage city, tower with more bandwidth the speeds goes up to 1000/150 Mbps.

Just the integrated GPU. It's a virtual machine server with no need for GPU. I only need graphics to get into the bios, set up the machine and remotely manage at the base machine level. If I ever have a need for GPU I run it on one of my local machines. This puppy is built for a very specific workload. Will be racked at the datacenter in a few days. Just waiting on one more network card...

I'm in an office sharing with 2 person, i guess its enough.

Check this out, the Ryzen 7 9700X is built on a 4 nm production process using 8,315 million transistors. I don't feel like it's getting the love it deserves. The latest AMD chips are truly amazing.

Amazing and cool ! A Life time dream. Thanks for posting I was a fan of AMD, they are excellent and less expensive than Intel. The chinese already have 7nm chips. The 3B6600, for example, is claimed to perform at par with Intel 12th—and 13th-generation CPUs thanks to its new eight LA864 cores with a clock frequency of just 3 GHz My family PC for Gaming have I7 8700K recommeded at the time by Tom´s Hardware. I am not a gamer and my 2023, ASUS Notebook have Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-9750H CPU @ 2.60GHz 2.59 GHz RAM: 16,0 GB Graphic card 8 GB SSD: 952GB Display 15.6" 240Hz 3ms G SYNC Pantone colors Windows 11 PORT 1 Gbps. USB adaptor 2,5Gbps My favourite F1 team was Williams https://www.formula1.com/en/information/williams-year-by-year.6wHlJglT3USpmIbETtAYzW Ferrari is beautiful and have long history Cheers

latest test like a min ago

TestMy.net Test ID : MQxIChSEV

Hi All, As an Original Member I like to drop by every once in a while. I have not seen many topics I have anything to contribute to these days. I miss when this forum was very active. This would be a good topic for other members to do the same. Let us know you are still alive. Unless you have figured out how to post from the other side.

Thanks mudmanc4 I did not intend to limit this topic to "Original Members". I just wanted to see how many were still around at least sometimes. Anyone remember these:

You're not in the first 1000 members but you are an OG TMN member for sure. 1000th member to 10,000th is like a 6 month difference.

Im not quite an OG but close, Happy holidays !

Thanks

Good to see the responses. I hoped there would be more. Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.

Pretty good for Wi-Fi I'd say (tested on my iPad)

Hi Ca3le nice to meet ya. Just a sudden hunch to find some of my old registered forums since i had free time, plus my email was banned by yahoo quite a time ago with no clear reason, although manage to get it back, all previous emails was wipe clean. Thanks for the badge !

Wow! Your member number is right in between xs1 and cholla. You definitely deserve the Original Member badge. Welcome back. What kept you from signing in for over 20 years? I was just glancing over some of the first members. There are still a few registered in 2003 (the year the forums started here) who are still active. Pretty cool.

Hi Cholla! Happy to see you're still around.

Hi @cholla

Hello from Studio B. Today, in many places with 4 Mbps is still a Gift of Science and Amazing Grace. My grandfather lived 19 years in Nevada without Internet. He faded away he dindn`t die on his mind. Remember General Douglas MacCather? April 19, 1951. 'Old soldiers never die-they just fade away.' From your neck of the woods I like "bring me back to life" by Evanescence from California and Southern Ghotic music. I belive Amy Lee have Symmetrical Internet like 1000/1000 Mbps. Bruce Lee might have died because of cerebral edema in 1973. Peter Steele from Type O Negative, New York passed away but before he gave me is autoghaph and told me he was not a fan of Manowar. and rats can be a problem for Internet cables in NY. I think TMN tets with "multithread" on default mode is better for the majority of the people on earth to be happy. Optimum and Comcast Xfinity are my fovorite ISP in the USA. For Canadians can read the following. [link removed] 14 October 2024, 00h20 UTC Cheers Frank Internet speed at 20km from my house and 10km from the company installations with the plan of 24 or 12/1 Mbps. The test was done from the most westerly place from europe, at a server 2000 Km away.

11 October 2024 From our house on the Island, Love & Peace to the World.❤️☮️ 20 years after Madhopsman Post our Internet speed is 125 times faster than 4 Mbps with 500/100 Mbps fiber optic cables and GPON technology. GPON technology, downstream/upstream speed - 2.5/1,25Mbps XG-PON - 10/2.5Gbps XGS-PON - 10/10Gbps (symmetrical) Internet 4 Play Package: TV | Telephone | smartphone/cellphone | Internet 500/100 Mbps. From one of the 3 (three main) ISP in Portugal. (MEO, NOS Vodafone). The services, quality and prices are similar. TMN https://testmy.net/db/ZL5vVx5Cw.BfwYDlQcA https://testmy.net/ZL5vVx5Cw.BfwYDlQcA.png Like 👍 TMN speedtest wireless 5GHz. Router Fiber Gateway GR141/140, made in Aveiro, Portugal by Altice Labs. https://testmy.net/db/gqZ4-Tjg6.-qcLzNe0C https://testmy.net/gqZ4-Tjg6.-qcLzNe0C.png

Cholla, I completely agree! I also have a fair amount of "Open Source" programs, apps, scripts, etc. The open source community (without a doubt) keeps the big corporate software companies honest. At least somewhat. I firmly believe if the "Open Source" community DID NOT EXIST; All of little people would likely be paying Microsoft, Apple & even Google $2,000 - $5,000 a year - just for an OS (Operating System)! In addition, every program, app, etc would be pay before you run as well. There would likely be "some" trial-ware of course, but many consumers would be pay up front... JMHO, 0bWAN

I believe I & others posted about these websites many years ago. I have used these two for several softwares: giveawayoftheday & sharewareonsale The softwares are usually a full version with no updates. Some are for a limited time like 6 months or 1 year. A lot of them are lifetime but no updates. I have never found a virus or malware in any software I got from theses websites.

I'm like most PC users I have some payware & some freeware. The sites I posted are usually payware that is temporarily freeware with no updates. Some are for a limited time . A year or six months. Then they expire. Most are lifetime with no updates. I have some that I have had for years without an update & they still work for my needs.

I am always leery of free downloadable software, unless it is clearly "Open Source". Evan then, if I continue to use it more than a couple of weeks I will make a donation. I am not wealthy be any means so some donation(s) aren't much but Common sense indicates that every little bit helps. The flip side is of course MMI {Microsoft Malware, Inc.} I'll end that as I'm confident most people already know. Over the years I have found many deep discounts purchasing software. Many were of great value as well as an extraordinary buy. I quickly reviewed both of the above sites & unless I'm missing something these 100% legit! My personal experience buyi9ng MS Office for clients at such discounts has not been pleasant. Promise the world yet deliver nothing but chopped up licensing, partial or incomplete programs & generally consume much more time than original saving. BTW, I cannot put a dollar value on my frustration. I think today there is a plethora of really good inexpensive solutions available. In addition, anything touted as "COMPLETELY FREE", "NO STRINGS", ETC. should always be fully investigated & vetted before you take the plunge. Evan then I recommend D/L, install & run on a computer OTHER THAN your daily "production machine". Why gamble with any of your trustworthy devices? JMHO, be well, DSwinhart retired after 4+ decades in IT

The most common question that people ask us is why their results here differ from speedtest.net. I want to explain something that may help you understand why this is. According to the Ookla Wiki [updated link] the following is true about your tests taken at speedtest.net... The fastest 10% and slowest 30% of your results are DISCARDED The remaining data is averaged together to determine the final result Throwing away the fastest 10% and slowest 30% of the results in my opinion does not make for an accurate test. Isn't THAT the data that you're here to see? Also note this isn't only true for speedtest.net. Ookla is huge, most of the speed tests online run their software. Source: wiki.ookla.com Multithreading makes your connection look better Ookla speed tests are also multithreaded. Meaning that they open more than one connection to the host and combine the speeds. This often can mask congestion issues. For instance, imagine that you have a pipe along your route that's limiting you to 10 Mbps. If you open more than one connection through that pipe you'll be able to achieve a faster speed... but testing that way will not clue you in that there is actually a problem along the route. Remember, you shouldn't have to multithread your connection to pull your full speed. Multithreaded speed tests, like the majority out there, are designed to benefit the Internet provider not the consumer. They often display your maximum throughput not your throughput over the course of an entire upload or download. Omitting the worst portion of your test resulting in inflated scores that may make you feel warm and fuzzy but aren't going to help you see and resolve connection issues. Multithreading can show that you're able to max out your connection by combining the speed of concurrent connections but a great connection can max out without having to multithread. So, if you have to multithread your connection to get your full speed, you should be asking why that is. With TestMy.net it's instantly apparent if there is a congested route. Your speed here reflects the actual loading time of data within your browser... not the combined efforts of multiple threads being altered (dropping the top 10% and bottom 30% of the results) and added together, all through a plugin that isn't suited for the task. :: EDIT :: If you'd like to multithread with TMN, I offer that as well. Try the multithread speed test. TMN's multithread test gives you the option to select from an array of servers. Allowing you to test across multiple routes, to more than one server at a time. TestMy.net is the only Internet speed test with this ability. So THAT'S why your results differ. -- TestMy.net is a harder test to ace and a lot less forgiving than other speed tests. But isn't that what a benchmark should be? :: EDIT :: Another thing to consider is if you're running windows, particularly if it's older than Windows 7 you may need to tune your TCP stack to see your full speeds. Windows doesn't always come out of the box optimized for fast connections. Flash based speed tests fail to detect this problem. To make this change for free I recommend TCP Optimizer. This makes changing those settings very easy and nearly fool proof. Just open it, slide the bar over to your speed that you're supposed to have, check "modify all adapters" ...apply the settings and reboot. You should have faster speeds after your re-test if that was the problem. Here's an outside source talking about exactly this issue, I'll hunt down more examples. >> Download Speed Test - Something fishy? A few related topics :: Accuracy.. Slow upload, drastically different from other speed tests Resuts Vs. Actual Download speeds? TestMy.net shows different results than other speed tests TestMy v Ookla Difference Between Speed Test Sites? Satellite Service Testing Locking at around 14Mbps Questioning speedtest.net resolved with TestMy.net Outside Sources :: Internet providers caught inflating speed test results [myce.com] Use Testmy.net or else!! NO MORE speedtest.net posts will be allowed!!! by the Admin on [xplornetsucks.com] Accurate Speeds Or Speed Test Error? on [wildblueworld.com]

Completely AWESOME... best IMO also

Good speed. Enjoy it