Melvyn Figueroa

Hi testmy.net 
 
Thank you for this site first of all. I have browsed through it and found it very informative. Some of the results I got were astonishing to say the least. 

I am currently on Sky Broadband (Unlimited) they advertise up to 24mbps down but in actual fact I get 4.1 down, according to this test result. Sky claims I should get between 7-14 Mbps so this is significantly lower than what was advertised for me. I pay £7.50 which isn't much at all but the point is I am not getting what they claimed I would get.



​I shall be bookmarking this site and checking back regularly on members score. I find it interesting to see what other get from other countries and maybe compare my results with them

 

Hi testmy.net 
 
Thank you for this site first of all. I have browsed through it and found it very informative. Some of the results I got were astonishing to say the least. 

I am currently on Sky Broadband (Unlimited) they advertise up to 24mbps down but in actual fact I get 4.1 down, according to this test result. Sky claims I should get between 7-14 Mbps so this is significantly lower than what was advertised for me. I pay £7.50 which isn't much at all but the point is I am not getting what they claimed I would get.



​I shall be bookmarking this site and checking back regularly on members score. I find it interesting to see what other get from other countries and maybe compare my results with them

 

welcome Obie, nice to have you around

I've used this service to test a newly subscribed TWC, "up to 20 mb/s" ISP service. The "up too" should have ben a red flag but the at&t (bellsouth) "fast access DSL" infrastructure in my neighborhood could not provide > 1.5 mb/s, my chosen at&t long distance phone service was NOT unlimited and with the packaged Directv service included, with no premium channels, cost about $185/mos.
 
TWC "up to 20 mb/s" internet with unlimited long distance and cable, including Showtime is costing about $153/mos. A promo price but a pretty good deal huh? Aside from the relative immunity to heavy rain and maybe snow (don't get much of that here) TWC sucks in comparison to Directv; in channel choices, the reliability of the CISCO cable interface box, their menu, channel choice, search and record functions are awkward, unwieldy and antiquated when compared to Directv or Comcast, others I've had extensive and limited experience with respectively. You get what you pay for.
 
In addition there are numerous, daily reminders of what the "up to" means. Using Time Warners speed test function, download speeds considerably below 1 mb/s are often encountered; especially annoying when the video that's captured your interest suddenly freezes. Measured download performance upwards from 10 mb/s on a single user, home wireless network is convincing evidence that these wide ranging speed anomalies are not caused by in house problems. Performance has also been tested with a direct to cable modem connection with identical results.
 
Upload speeds are adequate, consistently around 1.9 mb/s, and have not been a problem.
 
That long winded introduction is why I joined testmy.net. I intend to run automated speed tests on a daily basis and present the data to TWC technical. My expectations are very low but, for what it's worth, they will be shared with the members on this forum who may be having similar problems.
 
Don D.
 
 
 

thanks for your patronage... I really haven't even started yet. Keep visiting and over time you'll watch it get closer and closer to my vision. I'm one guy putting it all together so it takes time... but I'm always developing to make TMN better for you. I have much more in store, stick around and see.

Well... your upload is all of those numbers    -- you're seeing how the browser choice effects upload speed to websites.  I recommend that you test with the browser that provides the fastest result.  The fastest result is going to be closest to your actual speed... the slower speeds are being caused by browser inefficiency.  As you've just displayed this isn't only a Internet speed test... it's also a great way to benchmark performance between browsers.       --- other speed tests out there don't work this way because the plugins that they use bypass much of the browser... imagine that a flash or java speed test is actually a program within a program.  Truly, you're running the test through Flash or java protocol, not really the browser.  The browser in that instance is merely a frame holding the third party program... that in turn can cause the test to miss MANY common issues that slow down your browsing experience.
 
What I show you is the speed at which things load in your browser.  I could have made it a thousand different ways but my thought was that the average Internet user is spending their time in the browser.  Also, testing outside of the browser requires either a program running outside of the browser, Flash or Java.  Flash... is faulty,  Java inconveniences people who don't have it and so does downloading and installing programs..... so I built mine with PHP and HTML5 so that people could just load the site and do what they came to do without frustration.  I aim for 100% compatibility with a single program. Others do it differently... all I know is that time and time again TestMy.net passively detects physical issues that others fail to pick up on.  Some of the things I've seen and heard it do have amazed and baffled me... and I wrote the program!  I don't get how it does it sometimes but it does.  The forums here are littered with accounts.  I also know this, if everything is in order and running correctly... you'll max your connection out here.  TestMy.net is just a much harder test to ace but isn't that what a benchmark should be?