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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.

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:

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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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.

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.

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

Maybe contact that developer. Easier to just use TestMy.net instead. Try the beta under My Settings.

You'll get this error if you run too many tests too quickly. It should be there... but not unless you hit the test more than you did. It shouldn't happen on your first re-test like that. I was seeing it too, when combined test was used and re-test was quickly done. I made an adjustment and it now passes properly under that scenario. Thanks for the heads up.

Using DNS in Singapore doesn't really help for your latency to the server. Latency is like the time it takes for you to send a message to your friend and for them to respond. In the world of the internet, when you click on something or ask your computer to do something online, it sends a request to another computer far away. Latency is how long it takes for that request to reach the other computer and for you to get an answer back. If it takes a long time, everything online feels slow, like when you're waiting for someone to respond to a text. When you ask your computer to load a website, it sends a message to another computer far away called a server. That server holds the information for the website you want. The message travels through wires, cables, or even space (if it’s using satellites!), and when the server gets it, it sends the website information back to your computer the same way. The time it takes for the message to go to the server and back to your computer is what we call latency. The quicker it travels, the faster things load! You can't improve this unless you're able to take a shorter path to the server. The physical distance creates unavoidable latency... the speed of light is the limiting factor. What the Latency Test is showing you is that servers in Singapore will perform best for you. Amazon is hosted on a CDN (content delivery network) so when you request using that test it pulls from a server closer to you automatically. To improve latency over long distances, here’s how it works: Use servers closer to you: Imagine a game of telephone. The closer the person, the quicker the message gets to you. Using servers that are closer (like a local one instead of one far away) speeds things up. Optimize the route: Think of taking the quickest path home. By using smarter routes (like special internet paths called "content delivery networks"), the message travels faster, just like choosing a shortcut. Use faster connections: Just like a fast car on a highway, using better internet connections helps the message travel quicker, even over long distances!

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

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

latest test like a min ago

just testing...1,2,3. hmmm, are these the cylindroids we are looking for? OH, hello cholla.

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

+1 to that

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.

Why not just buy your own cable modem? The ISP ones usually suck pretty bad anyways. When I had Cox, I always bought my own modem and never had even 1/10th of the problems I heard others complain about.

Testmy.net Best internet speed test for your browser If you're looking to test your browser's internet speed, Testmy.net is your best bet. It runs entirely on HTML5 and PHP, meaning it doesn't require third-party software like Java or Flash to run your test, which can produce more accurate results. That also makes it a useful tool for comparing performance between different browsers. You can also create an account to track your internet speed for future reference or comparison. It's not the most user-friendly tool, featuring a swath of in-depth data and individualized tests for your download speeds, uploads and latency. In other words, you'll have a lot of information to look through that might not be relevant to you. The design is also a little ugly by speed test standards. It takes a few clicks before you begin a test, which isn't as streamlined as other speed tests that feature big "Go" buttons as soon as you load the page.

I'm not sure if this is a bug or something intentional, but had the following large pop-up during a test. I ran a combined linear test, which completed successfully. I enabled multithread, clicked "Re-test", closed the full screen pop-up ad and the after the first stage of the upload test appeared, it displayed the following large count down and asked me if I want to continue with the test, which then completed successfully Edit: I ran a handful of further tests, including simultaneously on my mobile (different 4G connection), but didn't get this again.

Well maybe you should cool it down, dude! 😄

Wow! You resurrected a 20 year-old topic! Ahh the old days, when 4 Mbps was amazing.

Hello Frank, thank you for your comprehensive and informative reply, it is much appreciated. My internet connects to a radio transmitter tower across the Towy Valley about 2 miles away via a dish on my house. I am pleased to inform you that, since my last post, my internet provider has replaced the dish with an upgraded one. Here are my new speeds!!!

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.

Just a query. Is the residential gateway/ modem provided by Spectrum? If so is PC connected directly to that provided modem or passed through either a switch or isp extender device or perhaps a wall jack rj45 ethernet port using inside wire in the walls. Also if straight to router is there a port out of usually 4 or 5 grouped ports that are not of the same color or may even labeled as "1Gbps" some go higher when dealing with fastest speeds. Att and Comcast have equipment that use this Internet speed on PC is largely hardware specific. gpu, cpu, memory, Network interface As a former tech for the Death Star I would bet its the top suggestions. Lasty the PC...but it is more common than you think of coming up shy. 820 on here is good on testmy I wouldn't fret

Thank you! it seems to be working great now!

Sorry for the inconvenience. I made a change to the code that should prevent that from happening again. Please let me know if you have any other questions. Happy Testing!

Hi Rod, I'm happy to see that you're still visiting. I was optimizing the query structure of the database search. This presented a new problem because now certain calculations are done later in the process. Not really an issue, we can work with that, especially given the performance gains of dropping 2/3 of the queries... except I can't tell if there should or shouldn't be a graph displayed early enough in the process to generate the page structure the way I wanted. A problem easily solved if it was a single graph. Instead of just making it work... I rebuilt it into a single graph. Along the way I finally solved the x-axis / y-axis. There are two separate y-axis for speed and then two x-axis for date. The dates align with each other properly now on the x-axis no matter what the situation. This update also makes DB search query much faster for members like you with over 100,000 results. My testing saw no less than 2X increase in speed, some queries saw as much as 6X improvement. Once I thought of how it could be done (early yesterday) it was mostly a matter of reorganizing. Still a good 20-30 hours of programming, lol. Numerous other bug fixes, more complex queries are possible. Thank you @Pgoodwin1 for the suggestions, got the juices flowing. Thank you @rrr10 -- sorry it took >5 years to program your suggestion. It's a harder problem than I ever could have imagined. No examples to go off of, very little documentation of this very specific use case. I guess not very many people want to combine charts in this way... well, I like it. I can see how it will help people understand results better. I hope you like it too.

As always, thank you for your excellent suggestion. My plan is to basically duplicate what they do over at PassMark's site cpubenchmark.net https://www.cpubenchmark.net/compare/5027vs5684vs5172vs2830/AMD-Ryzen-9-7900X-vs-Intel-i9-14900KF-vs-AMD-Ryzen-5-7600-vs-Intel-Xeon-E5-2667-v4 Definitely won't be easy. But comparison like that is extremely helpful. Side note: pretty sure I'm going with the Ryzen 7900X on the new database server. Currently running Dual E5-2667 v4. The 7900X hits where I need it most (single thread) and a single CPU will blow the doors off what I'm running right now. ... couple that with Ryzen's ECC memory support and then they say that the AM5 socket will be the platform until 2027 so upgrade options for many years. -- when you run a mysql database query, that's a single thread operation. Excited to get it built and compare performance. So imagine that comparison but with internet benchmarks. Easy to understand and easy to use.

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

Yeh it's not bad for WiFi at all I have had 550 over WiFi before. With a cable the best I've seen on my ps5 using speed test.net is 596.3 so pretty damn close. Attached the WiFi test pretty damn good.

Reading the speed between their server and your computer is not really testing the internet speed. Doesn't matter how you connect. You're not testing the Internet if you don't actually go out to the Internet. Testing against your ISP's servers isn't going out to the Internet. That's why TestMy.net is here. Your ISP has control over the quality of peering and bandwidth in and out of their network. If your ISP is in the UK, then it should be a very quick hop over to my UK servers. As long as your ISP is delivering that won't affect the final result. There would be little to no difference if all the connections between are running with capacity available. Any good ISP in that scenario would have at least multiple 10 GbE peers, meaning that the route between the ISP and TestMy.net should never be the weakest link... unless it's over capacity. It's a red flag if an ISP tells you that only testing against their server's is accurate. And like I said, it doesn't make sense in the first place. Your ISP's servers are not the Internet, that's your host's network... before the Internet. It's a part of the Internet but if that's your host, their network is your network. A step above your local area network but we're not really out to the wider Internet. TestMy.net is actually testing your connection out to the Internet.

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.

According to hosts who've contacted me, there's an option for them to "adjust the drop off". So they can cut off the top and bottom portions and shape the result to suit the narrative they want to paint. I know this because they were asking me if I had those options! Not just one or two by the way. And they've stated that these options only exist on the higher level licenses. So basically, if you pay them enough. Exactly what you eluded to. More reason why an unbiased third party opinion from TestMy.net is necessary. All connections are tested under the same internal variables. Any variable that can be controlled is controlled by YOU, the client... not your ISP.

Where are you seeing this? I do need to redesign the ranking to be more user friendly. Definitely can be done better. Here's the ranking, after filtering out some of the less popular locales. I manually do a minimum test count of 45100 because every day the host database tables that the host averages are calculated from are trimmed, to 45000. This isn't the right way to do this because it's dependent on the time of day. I have some additional logic I'm adding to that. Where that part of the program will be made aware of the actual recent popularity. It will default to filtering out the less popular locations to build a better list. Sorting by download speed https://testmy.net/rank/countrycode.down/45100 Sorting by upload speed https://testmy.net/rank/countrycode.up/45100 It will look different using the defaults. It also may have been different when you looked, because of the time of day. The tables might have just trimmed and then it happened that a bunch of tests were taking place in the locations you mentioned above. That tool was designed before I started trimming those tables. It was easier to sort them by popularity before they started being trimmed... after time the majority of the tables are over 45K rows making that variable unreliable. Going way beyond the topic... Keep in mind, I built TestMy.net with really no prior programming knowledge... starting in 1996 before it was even TestMy.net. I then dropped out of high school in 1999, the useless information and repetition... I learn way more, much faster by DOING so I decided to focus on that. Building this taught me and I'm always learning. I've definitely made a lot of programming mistakes but they've all lead to a better understanding and better future designs. I'm a lone wolf programmer. All of the frontend, all of the backend. I even built the physical servers and infrastructure by hand. BTW, I was like 1 or 2 credits from graduating. Didn't really want their paper. What does it prove? Got hired at one of the largest telecommunication giants, quit school the next day. Worked for them for 5 years. Working my way up from the warehouse, within 1 year my pay increased over 6X. That company was good to me but TestMy.net was calling, I've pursued it full time ever since. Side note, if anyone actually reads this: That company had a strict policy and would have fired me if they knew I didn't have at least a GED. No matter what my performance was in the company. People high up (like extremely high up) told me it would be an open shut case and to keep quiet about it, "Just go get your GED dude!". Some told me it wouldn't matter even if I got it because I should have never been hired in the first place. That attitude was actually the reason I left them. With my own company nobody could hang anything over my head. Yes, I probably could have just got a GED. But why? I don't want that. They assumed I graduated because I had college credits, never lied to them. Thankfully it never became an issue and I resigned on top. Great company, they taught me a lot too.

I love this! I know I am using iPerf3 for testing local network throughput but this is much prettier and appears fairly easy to use.

Good speed. Enjoy it

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. ❤️

When I turn off Multithread I get around 55 Mbps. Other speed tests show a Multithread result of about 150Mbps. When I put Testmy on Multithread it goes away for a long time and finally comes back with 3Mbps after +5min what am I doing wrong? Trying to figure out if I'm keeping this T-Mobile router or not. Thank you! Jim

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

You can just minimize the browser or have it running in a different browser tab and just ignore it. I see what you're saying, it would be cool to have it in the tray, running as a task. I'm heavy in the belief that web applications will be the future of nearly all applications. I've always geared TestMy.net toward a 100% browser experience. The new version of TestMy.net is a full PWA. Taking advantage of many new browser features, 100% adopted by all major browsers at this point. In the next versions of Chrome you will be able to install TestMy.net and have it run and behave as a normal desktop application. You can also add it to your mobile device and have a more app like feel. It's much faster and offers offline capabilities. For instance enabling auto resume for the automatic speed test, a feature I've always been looking to add. Testing time is near. The new functionality coming to developers in browsers ... is blurring the lines between native and web applications. I imagine it's only the beginning. The progression at the browser level is ramping up quickly. Browsers are implementing cutting edge features at an astonishing rate and it's feeling like ALL of them are agreeing to standards for once. I've been developing for the internet since the beginning, never seen this kind of progress. I've never developed for iOS, Android, Desktop etc. Now and especially in the future ONE web application can branch across all of those platforms. Especially when you're a single developer... it can be hard to manage even 1 code base. So I hope that in the future it's just part of the way TestMy.net works... using the latest tools I have available. Hopefully you'll see by minimizing it... you can run it that way for over a year.