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yeah... in terms of speed, not posts --- like this >> https://testmy.net/memberstats/?top=1 -- but reversed.

I got an interesting idea. I haven't left anything up to the community for a long time so I thought I would let you all decide. The results of this poll will determine whether or not it becomes part of the site. So your input is important to me. It would basically be exactly like the top 20 members list but reversed... bottom 20. I personally think it would be interesting to see... and in my experience that usually means other people would find it interesting. Let me know your thoughts.

Thanks, I've been workin' hard. I really had to take a step back and rethink the design of the programming. It's not a simple task to run a site on this kind of scale. But the new stuff is coming together nicely and I'm making sure this time around to leave myself some breathing room in the programming for expansion and upgrades. ... I did away with the mirrors a long time ago, I wasn't comfortable with the system in place. I'm obsessed about accuracy and there was no way for me to guarantee the QoS with the old system... so I abruptly nixed it, I've actually rewritten about 98% of the old code over the past 9 months. Keep visiting, I have a few tricks up my sleeve and much more to come.

shadowpuck, I'd recommend first that you run the Scheduled Speed Test on a low interval, 30 minutes to 1 hour for instance. Let that run for a day or so and that will give us better data to work with. Many times it boils down to net congestion. Just because you tested elsewhere during the same time and got better results doesn't really mean anything. First, your route here will undoubtedly be different than another server, even in the same city... and second, because TestMy.net is far different than other tests out there. I have purposely made the tests here more resource intensive, so other problems with your computer could be to blame. But, running that scheduled test will help place the blame outside of your home. ... If we figure out that it's only happening during certain times you can then take that information to your ISP and hopefully they can figure out what the issue is.

-- maybe you saw that middle ad and stopped scrolling --- shut up, I got bills to pay!

Good to hear that you're no longer having a problem. Welcome to the site. I see that hewee has been a long time member. Thanks for recommending the site hewee! And Basil, I hope that you like it enough to pass it along as well

It's on the top members page https://testmy.net/memberstats/?top=1 ... Why didn't you see it? ... you are ranking with that new connection by the way

Damn... that upload is killer!

I get such weird speeds at my house. On Verizon Wireless, Droid X... I can only get this speed in one specific place in my living room. 1MB burst larger test size and upload My backyard I think it has to do with the mountain I'm on. Does anyone know about a mountains effects on radio signals. ... And at my old place, in September I'm on WiFi when I'm at home so I don't mind that much... but I am curious if the terrain could be at fault.

Try this ... https://testmy.net/ul-97 that's a little smaller than what's publicly shown. Also, letus know some details on your provider and connection type.

I haven't started it yet but I'm working in that direction ... I want to really take my time with that.

The reason is because I query your host information, it's fairly common for ISPs that buy smaller markets to keep the host information the same as it was for years... For instance, people who were on Cingular Wireless have obviously been on AT&T for some time now. But when they test here they show up as Mycingular.net stats. I kinda think there isn't an AT&T in the drop down because they've built their market off of buying up smaller providers... and have kept the old hostnames for some reason. That drop down list is built automatically and lists all host names with a curtain number of tests. You should be comparing yourself to other people being detected on Bellsouth however. If you look at the host stats for BellSouth I've added AT&T on there. But hopefully in a few months time I'll have my new and improved host detection in place that will fix issues like that.

He just remembered the first number wrong... he was 100% correct though. I removed that question. Those aren't meant to be tricky like that

He's referring to the anti-spambot questions by the way guys. The question was "What is 14 minus 13 times 2" --- acceptable answers to pass is 2 and two. ... you're actually absolutely right. Damn. It would need to be written (14-13)2 or (14-13) * 2 for it to equal 2. DOH! --- 14-13*2= -12 Here's a question, I can't seem to remember what are those are called in math. I always just think of them as pre-equation brackets e.g. ((x / y)(z * w)q)= a ... And you my friend get a sophist account for proving me wrong, even if it was just on the registration anti-spambot questions.

Open 'Font Book' (easily find this with a spotlight search) and under the "Web" collection you should have the following... ... I'm fairly certain that disabling all but these default web fonts will fix the problem. They will still be on your computer, just not in the 'web' collection. All the fonts that you add should be under "User" or "Computer" in your font book. I personally have never had the problem your having but this is my best guess from a distance

You'd really only need a switch if you didn't have anymore available ports on your router.

There is Cox in Kansas?

Haha. Truth is that I need to get an ip database. gethostbyaddr() doesn't work well enough on this scale, no matter how much processing I put it through there are limitations to the things I can detect that way. Only a small percentage of users aren't getting detected correctly by the way... I just have to fork out a bunch of money for a real IP database then rewrite a few things to accommodate. Once I get that in place TestMy.net will be able to provide users more regional stats. For instance, stats can be dissected down by city, state, zip. ... I try to keep it vague most of the time when it comes to upcoming features. I'd rather just deliver it than talk about it. And in this particular case, I'm not sure when I'll have it finished.

Your stats show that you're on Semo.net >> https://testmy.net/compID/1881295029284 ... So I don't see the conflict you're talking about, can you provide a screenshot?

Yeah, I suggest that you never listen to your providers test... ever. They are testing internally. Too close to be a real test of your internet. God, I wish that the world knew this... I'd have allot more visitors. You need to tell them about the issue because I'm on Cox.net Ultimate too, over 1000 miles from the server and look what I get. ... Oh yeah, that test is flash based so you can throw it's accuracy out the window anyway. What are your system specs? You may have something out of place. TestMy.net is a more thorough and can detect things that flash speed tests don't seem to notice. Like incorrect MTU and Rwin settings, read http://old.testmy.net/t-1013. I've seen poor hard drive performance effect the results here as well. Flash based tests are more of a novelty than a real test of your performance.

Currently it will just show up as co.uk but this will be changing soon.

Welcome back, glad to see you again... you have one of those usernames that I always recognize when I see it. Why haven't you tested since April 2010?! ...or is it that you just haven't been logged in? Personally, I would let windows manage it. In the past though, I have setup special separate drives and/or partitions for that. Just tell windows to use that drive letter instead. But, I personally haven't made any changes to that on any of my installs in years. ... yes, if you have fast and large enough RAM the pagefile system is nearly a moot point. Because it doesn't get a chance to make it into cache... Not necessary unless you run out of RAM or the information takes along time to process out of memory. Source: Wikipedia on Paging and Page File Systems

If you're in Manchester, England and are getting those speeds you're not in bad shape. But you can improve your connection to the United States by tweaking a few settings. Look into Van Buren's Cablenut Settings And also Speedguide's TCP Optimizer You basically have to tell your computer to send the data a little differently to maximize performance over distance.

Sorry.. I took the weekend off ... this is on my list

You can still access those but I removed the links. Just go to... https://testmy.net/stats/7D-yourUsername or https://testmy.net/stats/30D-yourUsername[/code] The reason I took those links down is because I'm creating a new graphing system to replace those pages. Users will have allot more control over how their connection information is displayed to them. I wanted to simplify the interface a little until that's released. I still don't have a release date but I'm working away at it. I've left the 7 and 30 day links in the mobile version by the way.