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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.

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.

@Stank_Ho there you are!! Where you been? Maybe you’ve been back for awhile…huh?

That makes sense! I do see myself on the list now. Thank you!

Your TestMy.net results are very good 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.

At least its (currently) consistent. Much better than satellite alternatives!

It may be possible you answered your own question? lol Welcome anyhow!

Welcome to TestMy.net! I think we can help.

I found a bug already 🤣 Not a major concern from my end, but an ampersand in the project or sub-project name causes a mild issue. I entered `AT&T` for both parameters in this screenshot: I was trying to enter "EBrown Home" for Project, and "AT&T LTE" for the sub-project when I found the issue: However, on the bright side: the QR Code at the device-signup page worked exactly as I would hope it does. I scanned it with my phone and it pulled right in, as desired.

The upload test results don’t normally show a plot like download after a combined upload/download test. The two tests are different type tests. if you want to see plots containing download test points, go to the My Results page. The upload and download both plot on that page because it’s showing results from multiple tests over the date range selected - assuming you have test data for both for the date range you select

The difference in download speeds between a laptop and a PC can be attributed to several factors. Firstly, hardware disparities play a crucial role. PCs often have more powerful processors and network cards, allowing for faster data retrieval. Additionally, laptops may have limitations due to their compact size, leading to smaller antennas and reduced signal strength, especially in older or budget models. Software can also affect download speeds. Background processes, applications, or bloatware running on laptops can consume bandwidth, slowing down downloads. PC users have more control over their system's resources, enabling them to optimize for faster downloads.

Wonder if it could be done pre-test then, similar to how HBO Max and such let me use my phone to scan a QR code to attach the TV/device to my account. 1. Open TMN on target computer 2. Click "I have a project under another account" 3. Page opens QR Code 4. Open TMN on phone authenticated to my account 5. Open camera and scan QR Code from #3 6. Add target computer to account for 24 hours (simple cookie with the info would suffice) 7. Run tests from target computer Just spitballing ideas, would make it pretty painless to use this way and sticks pretty much to your original plan.

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.

Catbear 🐱🐻! You're awesome! Please join the beta to get early access >> https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/34612-beta-testers-welcome/ I think you're going to love playing with the new tests on that connection. I'd like to see how it runs on your local network too. I'm stoked to read them. Welcome to TestMy.net! By the way, sweet connection!

👏 well said. idk. TMN seems to work ok for me.. upload we will sort out in the new revision im sure. Keep up the hard work D!

I have no Missed frames from rendering, Skipped frames from Encoding but when I stream at 8000kb/s or higher (or try to anyway) I start getting a huge amount of Dropped frames (Network) I may be confused but isn't 1200/40 equivalent to 120000/40000 in kb/s?? If so I would think that streaming at 8000 kb/s should be a non issue it is 1/5 max upload and I seen where it is mentioned you should be able to set your stream bitrate to easily 50-75% of your upload speed Of course taking into account if you have other traffic uploading as well which I only have iracing running so do not think I should have issues with my settings I am trying to upload higher quality iRacing streams (current resolution is 3440X1440 85 Hz (Fps)

Thanks ya I was thinking something was not right with it dropping frames when i was only running at 8,000 kbps. Initially I was thinking Xfinity was doing something to limit me, then by accident I seen the GameFirst VI was setting the OBS stream section to low. Once I changed that I was easily able to stream at 10,000 kbps I just streamed a iRacing ARCA race at Indy RC and had no problems so all seems to work great. Funny when you set things correctly how nice they work LOL

I have never been unappreciative of your efforts or your service. If I come off that way, it is only out frustration from this years long battle with Spectrum and my unrealistic expectations of TMN as my last best hope. So thank you for what you do. Am still willing to test your beta.

I love when I spend hours upon hours helping someone, reading into all their tech support emails, taking hours to work someone else's problem in my head, explaining things in intricate detail, writing custom guides specifically for that person and taking time out of my family holiday weekend to quickly respond back... only to be attacked. Talk about biting the hand that feeds you. I understand your frustration and I've been trying to help. It's pretty common that people attack and blame me and my site, I'm used to it by now. Here's what I actually say on the website right now, Total network bandwidth capacity in excess of 2000 Gbps TestMy.net's servers are all gigabit or multi-gigabit uplinked Hosted network features multi-homed connectivity with bandwidth from independent Tier 1 carriers, combining multiple 10 Gbps connections to create one of the industry’s fastest networks. Global network reach utilizing over 25 Tier 1 network providers including Comcast, Cox, Time Warner, Charter, Qwest, Google, Level 3, Internap, NTT America, Equinix & Telefónica to name a few Extensive peering relationships across North America, Europe and Asia That was actually written so long ago, needs to be updated and includes much more currently. After I get the beta released I'll probably start updating text across the site. Total network capacity. This is the network capacity of the hosts I choose. I choose hosts who peer well with other hosts and have in many cases direct connections to the larger ISPs. Those are their peering relationships. I've definitely had to be creative in the past to afford to run this site. From 1999 to 2001 I had to shut down because I exhausted all of my options. And then lost all the code. Long story about how it was able to come back. TestMy.net today I have a cabinet of servers at Colohouse (formerly Data102) about 15 minutes from my house in Downtown Colorado Springs CO. This is where the (currently) centralized databases run. When you visit "testmy.net" it's served from Cloudflare CDN and goes to my rack here in Colorado. When you use the Colorado test server, you're hitting a VPS running in that rack. My cabinet is located only about 10 feet from where all of the connections come into the data center. When I first joined Data102 the owners were fans of TMN, "We use it all the time! It's our go-to test." and so they gave me a favorable deal and placement in their datacenter. But it's still very expensive and I pay for that out of pocket. Then I have about 30-60 VPS servers at any time, the majority of which right now are on Vultr VPS. If you want $100 of credit to try their platform, here's the link. I get $35 if you keep them. I scale the VPS servers up and down with demand. That's also expensive but I've paid much more in the past. I could definitely do it all for much less but the quality of the bandwidth is extremely important to me. There are a lot of people who've come to rely on my service and I do my best to provide them with the best possible scenario from a server-side perspective. I do extensive testing on hosts... xs1 just helped me throw out a promising prospect. It looked fairly good but TestMy.net proved it's not as good as Vultr. So when the client is fast enough, TMN can work in reverse and be a test of the host it's running on. And I intend on doing an entire section where I test VPS hosts like this. So many people blocking ads. But oh well. When you have some computers pulling 250 Mbps in the linear test and others pulling 40 Mbps it's showing me that it might not be Spectrum at fault. Are they delivering your 1000 Mbps... no, but I'm trying to tell you that 250 Mbps isn't all that bad. In multithread it looks like you're able to see 400-600 Mbps. Not bad. If they're cool they should give you a credit for that. Maybe $10-$20/month off for a year or something like that. Comcast did that for me when I presented my information. I just called and told them what I was finding, didn't have to show them anything. They challenged nothing, but each ISP is different. I've been a trusted resource going on decades now, your ISP knows TestMy.net. They used to train their employees to use my site. If it were happening on all of your computers across your network and also happening when directly connected to the modem. Then it's probably a Spectrum issue. If it's happening, isolated to one or two machines... most likely a software or configuration issue of some kind. I test in Brave regularly, always with shields up. You must have "block scripts" checked in the advanced settings or something. If you block scripts here nothing will work right because all of the frontend code is javascript. I don't know about Privacy Badger, probably the same kind of issue. I'm getting back to writing my beta, where my time and effort is more appreciated. Later! << note: the thumb sticking out

Sheer bor-dumb. Added some characters lol 😛

Living in a rural area is always a challenge when seeking bandwidth, fast pings, minimal packet loss. The return on investment is my happiness guess. Yes i agree, but its not really reading that way, could you tell me what to ask them regarding this matter. Is it simply " hey, is this going to be a single connection" Do you mean between BULLCS and WEBUCS , yes i think so. To my knowledge the distance between the 2 points is no more than 20meters I gave the quote to Bard(google AI) and asked to explain in detail each listed item The first step is to upgrade the radio hardware at Promiseland (PROMCS) and Bullyard SS (BULLCS). This will involve replacing the existing radio equipment with newer, more powerful models. Next, a new aggregation switch will be installed at BULLCS. This switch will help to distribute the increased bandwidth from the upgraded radio equipment to the rest of your network. Finally, a single-fiber cable will be installed between BULLCS and WEBUCS. This cable will provide the physical connection for the increased bandwidth from the upgraded radio equipment. In addition to the hardware upgrades, there will also be some additional costs associated with the upgrade. These costs include: Backhaul charges: These charges cover the cost of transporting the increased bandwidth from your location to the internet. Internet charges: These charges cover the cost of your internet service. Design and PM: These charges cover the cost of designing and planning the upgrade, as well as providing ongoing maintenance and support. Utilise QCN network to NEXTDC: This charge covers the cost of using the QCN network to connect your internet service to NEXTDC. Migrate the customer internet service from CITEC to NEXTDC: This charge covers the cost of migrating your internet service from CITEC to NEXTDC. additional details about the specific items listed in the quote: Radio Hardware upgrade: This includes replacing the existing radio equipment at PROMCS and BULLCS with newer, more powerful models. The new radio equipment will be able to support the increased bandwidth of a 2Gbps connection. New Agg switch should be installed ad BULLCS (YT separation): This refers to the installation of a new aggregation switch at BULLCS. The new switch will help to distribute the increased bandwidth from the upgraded radio equipment to the rest of your network. Allocate 1 x single fibre cable between BULLCS and WEBUCS: This refers to the installation of a single-fiber cable between BULLCS and WEBUCS. The cable will provide the physical connection for the increased bandwidth from the upgraded radio equipment. Backhaul Component: This refers to the cost of transporting the increased bandwidth from your location to the internet. Internet charges: These charges cover the cost of your internet service. Design and PM: These charges cover the cost of designing and planning the upgrade, as well as providing ongoing maintenance and support. Utilise QCN network to NEXTDC: This charge covers the cost of using the QCN network to connect your internet service to NEXTDC. Migrate the customer internet service from CITEC to NEXTDC: This charge covers the cost of migrating your internet service from CITEC to NEXTDC. FYI from Bard also.... Utilize QCN network to NEXTDC: The QCN network is a high-speed fiber optic network that connects various data centers and other telecommunications facilities in Australia. NEXTDC is a data center company that operates a number of data centers across Australia. When you upgrade your internet service to 2Gbps, you will need to connect your internet service to a data center that can support that level of bandwidth. The QCN network is a good option for this because it is a high-speed network that can support large amounts of bandwidth. The cost of using the QCN network to connect your internet service to NEXTDC will vary depending on the specific location of your internet service and the data center that you choose. Migrate the customer internet service from CITEC to NEXTDC: When you upgrade your internet service to 2Gbps, you will need to migrate your internet service from CITEC to NEXTDC. CITEC is a telecommunications company that provides internet service to businesses and consumers in Australia. NEXTDC is a data center company that operates a number of data centers across Australia. The cost of migrating your internet service from CITEC to NEXTDC will vary depending on the specific services that you are using and the data center that you choose. Here are some of the benefits of migrating your internet service from CITEC to NEXTDC: Increased bandwidth: NEXTDC offers a wider range of bandwidth options than CITEC. This means that you can choose a bandwidth option that meets your specific needs. Better performance: NEXTDC's data centers are located in more strategic locations than CITEC's data centers. This means that you will likely experience better performance when using your internet service. More reliable service: NEXTDC has a better track record of reliability than CITEC. This means that you are less likely to experience outages or disruptions when using your internet service. I searched 2Gb microware services and I couldn't find a ISP offering 2Gb. The max speed on offer was 1Gb @ $2000 a month. (I'm charged $2275 ) so I'm thinking ok, $4500 a month for 2GB is reasonable, but they want to charge me $8357 per month. If i subtract $4500 from $8357 it leaves $3857 x 36 months(contract) is $153,643. Is there $153,643 worth of upgrades in this quote, that is my issue, and is it a single connection. I hope this makes more sense. I appreciate your time responding.

@ mudmanc4, This is the post I found the YouTube link in. If you don't know the arrow in the upper right corner takes you to the post. I should have said I am also saddened by Richard's passing. I had a lot of fun with the movie quote topic with him. Other topics as well. Richard's birthday was one day later than mine but 4 years earlier.

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.