CA3LE

The tech who told me that was obviously a liar because October came and I never saw it... and now Qwest was bought out by CentryLink. He told me that the Phoenix and Denver markets were going to have it. Maybe it's still coming, but I no longer have Qwest so I haven't been keeping up with their news.

There was a hostname entry out of place. That should be corrected.

When I get back from a little break I'll be putting a new contact form up. I plan on putting a form up that requires NO information other than your message. So people can anonymously leave comments. Thanks for the suggestion, look for this in the near future and please keep visiting. - CA3LE

I had Qwest 40/20 for about a year or so. I was very happy with it. Here's some stats from when I had it. (there are some mobile results in there... this was taken before those were able to be filtered out) https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=07012010&x=365&m=2&l=50&q=CA3LE You'll love it. Especially in comparison to what you have. Post your speeds after your upgrade. Qwest is now CenturyLink so I'll be listing all there stuff as CenturyLink. I could have sworn that I had a Qwest forum that I hadn't converted over... oh well. Your post is in the right place. Welcome to the site!

Happy Father's Day! Sorry, been busy all day.

Yeah... You should always be cautious of .exe .bat -- hell, anything that's executable... but zip and rar files can be just as dangerous. All they have to do is zip up the virus The only way to be safe is to scan the file before opening it... and even then you run a risk that your antivirus doesn't know about the particular virus yet. There really is no way to be 100% safe. A good rule of thumb, as with anything else in life... make sure that you trust your source. If something seems a little shady TRUST YOUR INTUITION. The fact is, if you're out doing shady things on the internet... you're probably going to get a few viruses. ... just like if you do shady things off the internet.

Nope. I didn't see an open spot. I'm sure that I could find a mounting braket made to install two drives. I'll have to do some searching.

Thanks Blako

Ahhh, back to normal. https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=06152011&x=1&m=2&y=u&l=25&q=CA3LE

It's cutting in and out. I do allot of uploading while I work... so this really effects me. Download is nearly unaffected. But I'm getting a delay in requests... which is very annoying. I bet it will work itself out. It better, because I can't work like this.

Thanks man... damn it, I forgot to knock on wood. All of a sudden my upload crapped out. ...real bad ... let's see if a modem reboot fixes it. brb

That's awesome! Glad to hear it. I know you've had a hell of a time getting that dialed in. Cox should be embarrassed that it took that long to get it right. They've given you a bunch of free months though, right? One extra thing you can do is send a letter or email to them. Let them know how many attempts it took and how much it inconvenienced you. I guarantee you that they'll give you something extra to say sorry. You had a pretty deep dips in performance >> https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=06142011&x=240&m=2&l=1000&q=triran then compare that to mine (for those who don't know I have the same Cox.net in Phx AZ 50/5 -- same exact modem.. nearly identical setup...) >> https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=06142011&x=30&m=2&l=1000&q=CA3LE(I have dips in my connection also but they are mostly because I'm testing the site... I can only remember a handful of times this year that my connection wasn't running at 100% or higher) I'm glad that my website could play a role in helping you get what you're paying for. Make sure you tell your friends... you know... if internet testing ever pops up in a conversation or something Damn, now you've got me beat by a hair (also on WiFi 802.11n)

You have to have a custom background set... I'm going to jam out to that second one on my ipod... lol

Haha, I found a bug in Google. If you're logged in and have a custom background set and you click the I just posted it won't work. You'd think Google would override that setting if you've just clicked a link like that. Nobody's perfect... even Google. -- But it's not like that's a mission critical link or anything

Don't you love how Google changes their logo on their homepage. Today it's one of those interactive ones, like the awesome Google Pacman one they had a while back. ... obviously go to Google.com to check it out It's a guitar! And you can play it! ... Oh, don't fail to realize that there's a recording function... and you can share the recording. ... I'm obviously not a musician and this is obviously hardly an instrument but here ya go >> http://goo.gl/doodle/8AVe Update this thread in the future if you see a cool Google logo you want to share.

Well, listen for activity. If you hear hard drive activity DON'T EVEN THINK ABOUT IT. You could damage the disk. If there hasn't been activity for an extended period shutting it down is fine. It may just be locked up. Sounds to me like it could really be hardware OR software... If it does it again on the next boot, I would try an OS reinstall. If that fails, junk it if you can afford to. That Thinkpad was a pretty awesome machine when it first came out... but it's day in the sun may be over. Good luck

It doesn't... at all. Because you don't have an issue anymore. But can you trust the alternative now? You saw yourself that they reported you at full speed. ...Your speed at TestMy didn't magically change when you changed your modem. You were having an issue and you most likely weren't getting your full speed, whether you noticed it or not. The fact that your speed improved here after changing a hardware component clearly displays a difference between the two sites. I never say that I'm better than any other speed test. I only present the facts and I let my visitors make their own decision. p.s. I forgot to say before... my "agenda" is to improve the Internet.

Not at all, but seriously... did they detect the problem? The evidence leads one to believe that your results from speedtest.net were wrong. ... You had a problem. You changed your modem and you're now testing fine. Just because you were still able to comfortably surf doesn't mean your speeds weren't being effected. It has nothing to do with docsis 3 vs docsis 2. Your cable modem was bad. You tested here and TestMy gave you the correct result, you changed your hardware and the result is now what it should be. That seriously can't be argued with. It's hardware man... In this instance, TestMy wins. -- It's not a coincidence that I hear the same thing time and time again. I've also recently seen it with my own eyes. Bad modem, speedtest.net reports good speeds. Swap the modem out and results here go up but speedtest.net is relatively the same. Put it this way, if your modem is dropping packets and speedtest.net removes the bottom 30% of your results they're going to report normal speeds. Because that bottom 30% of the results is where the problem is expressed! Imagine this, say this is the flow of data... | = good flow _ = dropped packets |||||||__||||_______||||||_|||_|||||||||___||||______|||||__||_ Now remove the bottom 30% of the results ||||||||||||_|||||||||||__||||||||||_||||||||||| Looks like there's hardly a problem now. Alternatively, we don't alter our results here what-so-ever. I appreciate your patronage by the way.

Your forums are broken dude. Change the site address in your admin panel from 65.111.125.41 to esuccor.has.it and it should work. ... Good luck

Nice... ... See, another example. You completely had a legitimate problem. TestMy detected it. Speedtest.net didn't. I just hope that you help me spread the word. ... We've known this here forever but changing public opinion is hard. People like "pretty" things, apparently whether they work or not. I try to make thing look nice here but at the heart of the site functionality and accuracy is what I'm always focused on. You're here to test your internet, not be shown a seemingly random number. TestMy truly tests your internet speed. Thanks for the testimonial. Note to everyone, please post your personal experience! I appreciate your support.

Best that I've seen for long time... Awesome!

Thanks, simple but does the intended job. -- I may redesign that, give it a few more functions and make it even more simple to use. If you're in Ireland and most of the sites you visit are in the United States then yes. But tweaking the MTU and RWIN settings just right can make a big difference.

Welcome! Hey, I'm Irish too! Just not from Ireland. May the road rise up to meet you...

Internet providers show speed in Kbps, Mbps and Gbps because that's the correct scale for line speed. You use kB/s, MB/s and GB/s to describe the speed of a file transfer. Well, your max speed isn't far off from where you should be. But you have a few lame results in there. Check out the Automatic Speed Test. Run it for a while and gather some more data. I wouldn't worry about the cap. When I worked for the cable company the same policy was in place... but I've been told that it's not strictly enforced. If you're using your connection normally you'll be fine. What the cable companies are really looking for is massive outgoing traffic on a connection ... people abusing the terms of use. Trust me, Cox has a similar policy... I draw Terabytes and nobody's shutting me off. Also, if you read online, in forums about people saying that they got shut off because of that. I'd bet you a thousand bucks that every single one of those people was sharing files on a ridiculous scale. Just don't get stupid, limit your sharing and you'll be fine.

I think this "ADSL THEORETICAL SPEED CALCULATOR" Excel spreadsheet may help you. adsl2calculatorv1.xls Because this is an XLS file you need a viewer. If you don't have Office or iWork installed here are a couple free .xls viewing options >> Open Office or Microsoft's free XLS Viewer