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Congrats on getting broadband. There's a reason that the slowest providers list is dominated by satellite providers. But hey, sometimes that's you're only choice. What really kills satellite is the latency, the signal has to reach out to orbit... then back to earth. Here's a post where I did the math. Direcway / Wildblue Satellite Orbit Your welcome for the website. I feel happy and humbled that so many people find my tools so useful. Thank you for using my services for so long, very cool. Your stats look very decent... incredible for 3G, especially your upload. I'm sure you feel like your on a whole different level of internet compared to satellite... because you are. Rural America is starting to get wireless upgrades. I think people in small towns will be seeing more and more 3G and 4G soon. Setting up WiFi costs allot less than wiring a town, it's becoming easier and easier for providers to deliver the data... Most of the land mass in the United States has 3rd world internet speeds, so it's about time. I wonder why your 3G only works 3/4 of the time... that's not right. Does it drop out completely or drop you to 1X? You also may want to think about getting a USB modem from AT&T, go there and click USB Modems... Right now the Shockwave 4G looks like the one to go with. I think you'll get a more reliable connection using a dedicated modem... If I were using 3G/4G as my primary connection I would definitely get one, at the very least for the convenience of having it already connected all the time. I also don't like burning myself when I answer the phone...

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Did you try connecting directly... without the router? Also, do you have access to another computer that you could try on that connection? Run a traceroute for me, first to testmy.net then to google. To run a traceroute... Windows Start > Run > type CMD [enter] > from the command prompt type tracert google.com and/or tracert testmy.net Linux / Mac Under Applications/Utilities open 'Terminal' > type traceroute google.com and/or traceroute testmy.net Paste those results here.

That should only be on rare occasion. You should never see a message like that for TestMy. Because this is a benchmark I have to be on top of the server performance... Try to eliminate as many variables as possible. (wall - cable - modem - cable - computer) ... lemme know what you find.

Check this out... https://testmy.net/live You can now see all results as they come in...

Wow, Debbie... you've got a problem. 4 Kbps... but then you got a decent score a minute later. Do you feel that it's the connection itself or something screwy with your computer? Give us system specifics, like OS and browser... some more details on any home networking... we'll help you figure it out.

That is strange, I didn't notice till you pointed it out. Seriously, how weird is it that I would find that archived image exactly 10 years after it was snapped... cue the X-files music Search for it in http://www.archive.org/

Not bad at all...

that's awesome

...and just like that it turns incredibly gay

There were a number of domains pointing to the same thing at the time. Yes, the main one was surftohere.com -- the one that I found that archive from was poopz.com (seriously, lol) That was obviously before Adsense was invented. Shut up, I was trying to pay for my mounting hosting expenses. Internet advertising sucked back then. That's pretty embarrassing actually but I don't care... it's part of the sites history. TestMy wasn't built in a day. "F**K BUDDY"

.. love the analogy. ... a couple Mbps is better than no Mbps. Unfortunately there are still many areas with limited broadband options. One day you'll be able to get 1Gbps... anywhere. The question is, how far into the future is that? You're welcome! This website is my passion. Thank you for the positive feedback and welcome to the site.

Hey, if any of you wonder why I changed the dates from 1999 to 1996... it's because I've found out from a web archive that I started this earlier than I perviously had thought. So... I've been building this 3 years longer than I thought. I've had three concussions since 1996 so this doesn't really surprise me. I find out new stuff about myself all the time, "I did what!" (some of the images didn't get archived) Some of the stuff on there is HILARIOUS!

If they still do it the way they used to... Basically there's a configuration file the modem gets from your provider. People hack it by tricking the modem into thinking that a TFTP server on the LAN side is where it should be getting it's configuration... then obviously you insert your own values. BUT this is far less common these days because the manufactures have made it so the modems can only get the TFTP from coaxial cable (the cable tv cable). I'm sure there's even more protection built in than there used to be. I've always been obsessed about computer speed. Personally, I like things to be instant. The whole speed testing deal came about out of my own necessity. I was one of the first people in the US to get cable internet. Well, coming from a 33.3 dial-up (yes, I never even got to 56K... it was that long ago) I obviously wanted to test it. The problem was at the time that there wasn't really a service to do that the way I wanted to. So I made my own.

Try the latest version of TCP Optimizer Here's 3.0.7 TCPOptimizer.zip

Welcome to the site! I love the suggestion. I need to think about how to turn that into a mySQL query now... that's actually a very complex statement to program. But it makes sense for sure. I would have to drop the top 5% and bottom 5% (for instance) then average the remainder. I doubt that mySQL has command to do that... but if it does an addition like this would only take me a few seconds to work in. Although, if the query is too heavy then I'll have to cache the results otherwise people will be waiting ... ... ... if I can do it, practically, I will. One thing I really need to do is narrow the hosts down to their region instead of as a whole. Currently you're comparing to everyone on the host... nationwide. I have allot to do before I can work that level of complexity into the database... but I am working towards that. With this addition will come better host detection which will help with the large number of hosts being detected as 'Unknown'. It's allot of work and I rarely look forward to database work. But it will make this site a much more powerful tool. So many layers to this site that I have to continually update and improve on... I think need 10 more keyboards and 100 more fingers. Kinda sad where Sprint is on the list... https://testmy.net/mobile/hoststats/

Welcome to the site zeba! Good to hear I'm getting some traffic off of Newegg... I send them tons of traffic they kinda owe me -- they really are the best though. They usually get stuff to me in 24-48 hours with standard shipping. Out of about $50K of parts I've ordered from them over the years they've never made a mistake... ever. New cable modem, especially if you're in a DOCSIS 3.0 area often times seems to clear up many issues. I highly recommend Motorola modems, Linksys is also high on my list. I personally have the Motorola SB6120. I recommend getting a docsis 3.0 modem even if you're subscribing to your providers normal package. You will thank yourself in the future when docsis 3.0 is required or when you decide you want more speed. The way I look at it, pay the extra $20 now and you'll save yourself $100 in the future. Sometimes it makes me wonder if the cable companies are slowing down the old modems on purpose to get people to upgrade to the new hardware. It seems that when a new standard comes out mysteriously everyones old modems start to run like crap until they hop on to the new standard. ... there's a nice conspiracy theory for you. I appreciate the kind words. I try as hard as I can to provide the best speed testing service.

No... I'm actually never mad. ... I just need to get used to a few things. I'm not impressed by the new gestures and I'm really not impressed by the limited possibilities that are built in standard. I'm sure with a 3rd party program I can get whatever gestures I want... but I want it to be standard in the OS. I'm slowly getting things configured the way I want them... but my point is that I shouldn't have to. I was using default settings before and they switched a bunch of crap around. --- Dear Apple... please stop trying to turn my computer into an iPod...

I'm just annoyed by some of the changes. Mostly with the gestures I've become used to since I got the magic trackpad. ... another one, where the f*ck is the zoom gesture... control + scroll. WTF, I liked that! Just stupid what they set some of the defaults to. ALSO, I come back to my sleeping computer and I can't wake it with a simple movement of the mouse anymore... you have to click. All the user input feels stupid and like the computer doesn't understand what I'm trying to do anymore. It used to feel intuitive now it feels like it doesn't get me anymore. I'm the type of person who loves change... but not this way. I should have waited till Apple ironed it all out. -- King of the jungle my ass!

Yeah... that's what I'm doing on Monday. ... wait, they're only offering it through the App Store... how do you get a full copy?

Damn that's lame. Like you said, why call it 50/3 if they're only going to give you 12Mbps down max. False advertising. What, you can't torrent! There are legit reasons for torrents. So you don't torrent at all? Even to get linux distros and such? Buckeye must have a weak network if they have to worry that much about their users traffic. IMO, it's none of your ISPs business what you're doing. Also, IMO if your ISP quotes 1Mbps (for instance) then you should be allowed to run a 1Mbps stream of consistant data if you want. Otherwise they need to advertise it as a burstable connection.

If they're having bad days with their connection then they shouldn't rank. Most of the people listed have tons of tests averaged, I'm just giving new people a chance to compete with the TMN vets. By the way, I see you have "last result" in your signature. Did you know that I have a function to do that for you. https://testmy.net/sig/{username}.png ...will return your last results in an image.

Nice... kernel panic If I get another error like that I'm reverting and waiting for the stable release. ... definitely holding off on upgrading my other machines for now. Good thing I only upgraded my best machine. Oh wait, that's a bad thing.

by the way... I'm retarded In my own defense, I only played with it for a second and haven't been back in my office since.

how is that natural! lol... cool, thanks.