CA3LE

I think I made the right choice going with the i5. It's a quad core now... plus the base model was allot easier of an idea to sell to my girlfriend... haha

I just got the base. I didn't see a reason to spend $300-$500 more. I'm still happy with my mini, this is a huge upgrade for me regardless.

On my way home from the apple store with my new 27" iMac.... can't wait! I said I was going to wait to get it untill bluray was included... but screw it, I wanted to today. The display is what I'm most excited about... I have a 27" and 25.5" but the resolution on those can't compare to this beauty. I just wanted to brag. Haha

I've expanded the idea to the Auto and Combined tests... let me know if any of you experience any issues, this is very new.

Yeah... thanks for pointing that out, squish! ... little portion of code that wasn't updated to match new variables

I've added a nice express button that calculates a recommended test size based on your last 5 tests This will definitely save me time, people get a nice, specifically sized custom test every time... one click. Enjoy!

Sorry man, I'm actually in there right now working. Thanks for pointing that out. It's good now -D

too bad we haven't got there yet... it's 356 not 365 That number may actually be as much as 50-250 Million higher than that. For years I purged millions of results out of the database (otherwise it would have overloaded the server back then) and there was years where there wasn't a database and nothing was being logged. I seriously have no idea what the exact number is over the entire history, it's not lower than what it says on the homepage though. I have records for all those

That thing is awesome! Now THAT's storage space

First one was fast... pretty much off the bat. Second link fluctuated wildly at the start, dropped to about 600Kb/s the throttled up slowly, ending at about 5MB/s ... I'm not worried about the problem, Cox usually takes care of it without customer intervention. I just wanted to mention this because I'm pretty sure that it's not just me... Pull Cox Test History and display the last 500 or 1000 results and you'll quickly see what I'm saying (see the dip at the beginning of the graph) Do the same with another fast host like Comcast and you'll see that it's not as if this is a site-wide issue either. It's a routing issue I'm sure... I'm not seeing bad speeds everywhere, just lots of places (I'm secretly trying to teach you guys how to use this stuff )

I've been running so good for so long... Here's my results today, https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=05192011&x=1&l=25&q=CA3LE I always cross reference the competition when I have a chance. https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=05192011&x=1&l=25&q=CA3LE TestMy.net and DSLReports.com spotted the problem for sure. But not speedtest.net... Server close to me... ... or far away speedtest.net just didn't notice anything. ... and I'm definitely having an issue

Guess they changed their mind

Hey BobH, So, I'm guessing that it was working fine until just recently, right? Can you try it again for me and see if my adjustments have corrected the issue your having. Thank you for your continued patronage, - CA3LE

I'm going to assume this is no longer a problem... no response ?

For sure... all and all his threads have at least a million views, someone had to be linking to them Windows 7 is much better at setting connections up automatically now, for sure. But I still recommend trashing IE in favor of firefox or chrome.

HO-LY--COW! Finally... geeze man, where have you been? I'm sorry to hear about the divorce. I understand, people get busy... lots of the original members of this site still visit frequently but have too many things going on to post here as often as they once did. Some have started and finished college then gone on to work in their respective fields. So many brilliant minds... I couldn't expect that they'd answer questions on my site for their whole lives. ... Uh, yeah.. between all your Cablenut guides and related articles you posted... you have to have at least a million reads on your topics. The only topics more popular here that I know about are Off Topic threads. Glad to see you're still visiting. I hope that you decide to participate again, you have ALLOT of fans out there ya know. - Damon

Welcome to the site. I personally have the SB 6120... and am very happy with it. Motorola has always made great cable modems. Although, so does Linksys. I've had Linkage modems and routers that given me many years of trouble free operation. Having said that, knowing how good the Motorola is by first hand experience, if I were you the choice would be clear. Just look at my speeds with cox, https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=05162011&x=60&m=2&l=10&q=CA3LE with that modem. Relize that any inconsistancy in my speed can be explained by the fact that I run this site and run the tests here under extraordinary circumstances during development. If I were testing normally all my scores would be 50+ / 5+ ... if anyone knows how to benchmark and severly overload things win data... it's me. The Motorola Surfboard 6120 has stood up perfectly to all that I've thrown at it.

I just calculated the total amount of time that the world has spent on TestMy.net. These numbers are based on Google Analytics data... Last month over 2 YEARS of time was collectively spent here. Total amount of time spent on the site that I have on record is 107 YEARS. The analytics data covers less than half of the sites history so one could safely assume that our visitors have spent over 200 YEARS of time here. Couple centuries of speed tests

Damn, missed it... lol

I updated the links in the first post on this thread....

Thanks

1000 mote tests and we can have a million party! :3some: https://testmy.net/ipb/uploads/emoticons/default_nocool.gif' alt=':nocool:'> (this guy thinks he too cool for the party)

Wow, I didn't realize that Stanford was getting GPU's in the mix... cool. Maybe I should start folding again... The Mac client doesn't look like it has all that extra stuff however. Very minimal options. I also think that most people won't know what to do on Mac once it's installed. There is no dialog after the install. Just for reference for any Mac users who might read this, because this is installed as a service access to the options for Folding@Home on Mac can be found under System Preferences... not Applications. I guess I'll have to get off the computer one of these days to see how it works

One thing you have to also realize is that your in Arizona. The problems started more or less when it started to heat up, right? The problem with Arizona is something that hardly anyone even knows about. As you know, things expand when they are heated up. This is also true for Coax. As the coax expands it becomes longer... cable providers have to compensate for this with higher signal levels. No where is this more true than in Phoenix, AZ. Especially if your home is fed by an Arial cable... arial feeds are far more susceptible because they're not only out in the open but have gravity pulling on them as well. If that expansion is calculated over a long enough distance it equates to -dBmV. When I worked for them we saw a huge increase in service calls in the Summer and the preceding couple of months. ALSO, this is a Solar Maximum year... which can and will disrupt communications. Another phenomenon that many people don't realize. I was a tech during the last solar Max and the techs I worked with were reminiscing about when they last had problems with the Sun and communications 11 years earlier. When it does play a roll and when it does there isn't anything communications companies can do. I'm not at all saying that your problem is caused by the Solar Cycle... BUT it could be a couple of things they even Cox hasn't realized. ... Think HEAT... So, thinking "heat"... where is the D-Mark (demarcation point is where the cable is fed to your home and split off)... does it happen to be on the side of your home that has direct sunlight? It could be over heating during the hot part of the day the splitter causing it to drop signal. This can also explain why Cox may not see an issue if they get there in the morning or evening. Just a couple of ideas form my experience. To tell you the truth though, it could be a ton of things. Even if you don't have arial cables it could still go back to that... just because your house isn't fed by an Arial doesn't mean that your main feed stays underground... 100Ft down the street it could turn into an arial feed. That modem is bad ass by the way. If a tech comes into your house and talks crap about the Motorola SB6120 eXtreme... kick them out of your house. He probably has a Terayon or something. ..then call Cox and tell them you want a real tech... and SPECIFICALLY ASK FOR A COX TECH... tell them, "I don't want a contractor, this is your last chance to get this right." - Cox has in house techs that have WAY more knowledge of the system and WAY more expensive tools... one meter that I had was worth $16,000 ~ there is NO cable sub-contractor willing to spend $16K on a meter. But that will allow the Cox tech to really inspect your drop. --- You'll know if it's a Cox tech because they'll be driving a real Cox truck and will be wearing a real Cox shirt... you obviously need a higher level of support. I hope that Cox has already been sending real techs to your house... If not, that's another thing to think of. Damn, this was a long post... sorry. I just know how much trouble you've been having and want to help. - CA3LE

Nice to meet you, welcome to the site.