CA3LE

Confirmed working with an 8 hour test run... https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=04312011&x=1&m=2&l=50&q=CA3LE working beautifully

Okay... I fixed the issue. Give it a try now You'll know that your in good shape if you start the auto test and the url in your browser looks similar to... The ?r_time=____ was missing before, this has been corrected. I recently updated that script and accidentally left the form method as post instead of get... D'oh!

I'll be working on IE compatibility with that

Went into a loop? It's supposed to run a loop of sorts... the SmarTest is ran... My results from the first test, I have the auto test set to 30 minutes, I'll post my results in a few hours. -D

It should work for you now. Can anyone else confirm?

Welcome to the site Liz, First, what's the package that you pay for with Comcast? If it's 7/1 (meaning 7 Mbps 7000 Kbps download and 1 Mbps 1000 Kbps upload) then you're not in horrible shape. Also, note that it's common practice with residential internet for download speed to be much higher than upload speed. This is normal and to be expected most of the time. This won't be true if your provider quotes a "Symmetrical" connection. My connection for instance is 50/5, 10X more download than upload. I believe Symmetrical Connections will be more common in the future... if not the standard.

Well... that was a weird bug. Had nothing to do with the scheduled test.... I fixed it though. The top portion of that should look something like this now... Thank you for reporting that, it was actually a pretty nasty bug that could have caused problems with other parts of the site.

I'm looking into this...

Well, looks like speedtest.net and speedtest.comcast.net aren't detecting your issue. This is pretty common. This is most likely because the tests here take TCP Windowing into account. DRTCP (from DSLReports.com) or TCP Optimizer (from Speedguide.net) should correct the problem. Many times in cases like this the receive window is set too low. The changes made by these programs are relatively safe and I know that TCP Optimizer has windows default values you can resort to if you want to reverse your changes. Also, you can back up your registry if you're worried about the changes having an ill effect. XP is notorious for it's bad TCP/IP values out of the box. Chances are that this fix should be quite easy for you. Simply apply the values, restart and re-test.

Welcome! Enjoy your stay.

You can already do this... Look in the bottom right of your query. (Your Username and/or Computer ID must match for the export link to appear.) Also, if you want to, you can actually refine your search down the way you want it... then export what you need. For instance, if I searched for the last 7 days, upload tests only... First click on 'your stats' Narrow down to 7 days... Clicking the up/down arrow in the results will narrow down by type. The click export at the bottom.. Once you get your CSV you can manipulate it yourself from there.

Hey rolar58, Thanks for taking the time to write me. So in IE8 on Friday you saw it working? Actually, can you give it another try for me... (with your cache cleared) I've put a previous version of one of the files... I'm actually getting my virtual boxes back on my computer so I can test in multipul environments again. I sent that email out prematurely for sure... I should have the IE8 bugs worked out soon. I'm surprised it's not working, the base those graphs work on is 2007 technology... the computability should be there. Even the playstation and Wii displayed them properly, lol. Let me know if it's working for you since I put that older version online. ... are you sure you were in IE8?

Just wanted to wish everyone a Happy Easter Sunday! - Damon

Nice article. I agree with allot of it. You can't expect 100% compliancy with even 1% of websites however. It's just the nature of the beast. A Google rep was quoted saying that if Google kicked all the non-compliant sites out of their results they would no longer have a search engine. Programmers should strive for compliance but in the same token the end user shouldn't be bothered with an error if they don't need to be.... the new browsers are supressing errors and correcting if possible. IMO... doing things in that fashion may make some programmers lazy... BUT does it get product to market faster? Sure does... so, doesn't that in turn push for faster development of the internet. Sure as hell does. Really, your choice. An IE6 world were development may take 6 extra months... OR get your new shit today. What the hell is the difference on your end? Same thing... "oh no... the browser edited a character that was out of place silently instead of throwing an error in my face... Man, I sure do miss all those errors I got in the mid 2000's when MS was unchallenged. Screw all this progress we've made........" that's kinda what I got from that article. I've been programming for nearly 20 years... and I'm 29 now. So that's the coder perspective on the subject. -D (Sorry for the formatting.. on my phone and lazy.... remember, the new movement for us programmers is to be lazy... lol.)

Almost exactly what I get too... On 50/5 -- super lame, here's my test moments later on my main computer. Wii uses an opera based browser... what else would you expect. You're right.... "" is the only emoticon that can express that.

Hey Magic Rat, Trust me, it's a coincidence. First, Cox would never scam people like that. They really want all their customers to be happy no matter what level of service they have. Cox is just happy to have your business. It's not like a sales person could say, "He didn't upgrade... I'll show him!" -- or as if the suits up top said, "We'll teach him that NOBODY denies our offers! [insert maniacal laugh - Mu-ha-ha-ha]" It may look fishy but it doesn't happen like that. Well, I can at least vouch for Cox. I worked for them from 2000-2005, very good company with best interests always at heart One thing you could say to them is, "Maybe I would think about upgrading if you could first deliver what I've ordered." -- lol Personally, if that's the top tier they're talking about for $5, I'd at least try it out for the 3 month trial.

If you test here enough you'll realize that the results here can be conflicting with other speed tests. TMN has a seriously unique method. To the point that it has caused me tons of headaches. Making me wonder if I had a flaw in my methods. But time and time again I look deeper and find that yet again, the site is correct in it's assessment. Somehow, TMN is able to be clued in to problems more than other tests I've used. The funny thing is... I'm not even fully sure how it does this. I'm the only programmer and have a mental map of the sites code... I still don't know why the other tests sites don't seem to pickup on some of the things TMN does. ... But I figure that I could waste my time trying to figure out why....... OR I could just continue developing the tools -D

Well yes, it will give you a very good idea of the popularity of any given ISP. Getting this up is no problem, I'll be happy to add this to my suite... it will add to the value of my tools. Your welcome by the way about the separate testing... I've always seen the value in testing those individually I'm glad when I hear of other people that understand part of the reason I do it that way. I'm taking time off this weekend but I should be able to work some added functionality into the site that will help get you the information you're looking for. You actually caught me at a good time... between breaths, so I should have this online fairly quick Thanks for the idea, I'm sure that it will help others out as well. I'll keep you posted... and if this goes past Wednesday please remind me. I sometimes get deep into things and lose track of time -D

I don't know of such a report. More detailed geographic stats are coming to the TestMy.net in the near future. Speedtest.net already does this but I have a different idea of how I want to do it here. Would a list that ranked providers by the amount of tests taken help you? We have a wide audience, you could definitely get a general idea with something like that I believe. Don't worry about cost, as with the rest of the site it will be free and made available to everyone.

That's one major difference between the tests here and other places. TestMy.net highlights browser differences very well. I too see differences between browsers but not nearly as drastic as you do (usually only a couple Mbps difference on a 50Mbps connection). This is because different browsers process the information differently. If for instance your IE install is being bogged down with a bunch of add-on's and toolbars then your results here will suffer. Firefox, I'm surprised your having a problem with. But, I've even seen before where all my browsers are running on par with each other... then one will be half speed. I restart the browser and it corrects the issue as if something internally just has to be reset. From what it sounds like (with Chrome delivering the test the way it did) you don't have a connection issue... more of a browser issue. I would first make sure that add-ons are disabled and the browser and your system are fully updated. Then re-test, after your browser has of course been restarted. If you still get results different from Chrome then you could probably just chalk it up to the fact that Chrome is a better browser. Chrome and Firefox (webkit and mozilla in general) are the best browsers (platforms) available today, by far. IE needs to be thrown in the trash. MS needs to take note of what the "little guys" are doing NOW or their going to lose even more of the browser market share. At this time, 4 years ago TestMy.net had 67.14% Internet Explorer traffic... today, only 37.01% --- For anyone that's not good with math, that's an 80% drop... because they can't get with the program. What they NEED to do is talk to some programmers OUTSIDE of the microsoft pool. Listen to the people that are designing the applications that their browser will run... hummmm, just like Google did. I don't claim to know how each possible problem is caused or that I know how to solve every connection problem. But I do try my hardest to provide the internet with means for working out the kinks in their data delivery. - Hopefully as TestMy.net evolves further it will be able to just tell you, "turn ____ off - it's slowing you down" - But I probably have a few million more lines of code to write before that's a reality.

Actually, every time I go to give that a try it asks for my address and I say "screw it". I assume it works well if you get speeds in the same ballpark as you do here. I'm glad to hear that you've found my tools useful. Keep visiting. -D

The new graphing is currently not working in some versions of IE . Works in litterally every other browser I've tested (Firefox, Chrome, Safari, iPhone, Android). I'll be working on this, thanks for your pateince. -D

The discrepency is actually a bug. That percentage is for your upload only on the combined test. Your upload is faster than RR's average but not your download. You have to also realize that the averages are currently for your host nationwide. RR has many markets. Future versions of the site will attempt to compare your scores with more geographically targeted information. As for that average 'bug' on the combined test. I'll squash that one with a quickness, it's been in the back of my mind for a while now. I need to provide averages for both tests types to clear any confusion. I hope this answers your questions. Thank you for your patronage. -D

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This result was from the automated Test, guess 7am is the best time in my area to get online. Scheduled Speed Test I have a weird problem right now with my upload, it's been cutting out. See my results from last nights testing and you'll see what I mean (look at the smaller upload graph). It's pissing me off, if you guys have seen an error 500 on this site in the last few days it's most likely because of what's going on with my upload right now. As I'm making edits throughout the day to the sites source I go to upload the changes and it stalls out. Even small file transfers will do this. When the upload messes up like that the file is corrupt until I can re-upload it. It takes up to 15 excruciating seconds to reestablish a clean upload. Depending on the resource I'm working with it can cause lots of errors. I think that my database results display my point perfectly to Cox so I'm going to email them the results... maybe they know why my connections been doing this. See, this is why I built this in the first place. It completely helped me diagnose that the problem wasn't any programs I was using and what-not.