CA3LE

What kind of advice?

That's really weird that it would only happen in that situation. Did they test your line before and after the problem. Word of warning, many companies these days will charge you about fifty bucks if the get there and find that it's not an issue with something they're responsible for. What program are you using for streaming media? Are you streaming to a console?

Doesn't happen for everyone but I have heard of it. I'm addressing that in the version I'm working on as we speak.

Do you have a router or is the modem directly connected to your computer? Hop number five... appears to still be within your hosts network looks very latent. Show them that traceroute. But does this only happen after you've tried to stream? Sounds like you think the two problems are connected. Your traceroute looks to me like they aren't.

WebUser... the tests will only forward you if you will benefit from it. This is a formula that's been built over nearly 11 years of trial and error. Been built that way to provide the most accurate results. If you download 3MB in like two sends that burst of speed does not reflect real world speeds. The program makes adjustments for stuff like that. If you wanted a test of a file download... go download a file. This is a speed test. You'll have to trust me. This isn't my first rodeo.

I've had forwarding like that since like 2002. If you pick a 3MB test... and your connection isn't too fast that's where it ends. But if you have a 20Mbps connection for instance, a 3MB files is insufficient to get accurate results. Pick the right files size for your connection type and you won't have to wait while the system adjusts it for you. That feature is there so you get the most accurate results. No added CPU by the way. With those changes there is actually less forwarding. It's more efficient, gets people to the right size quicker. Next version will be streaming data for a timed period instead of sizes... working on it.

Sorry that's the only manual I could find... I tried.

You may want to post in the help section. Are you seeing those speeds everywhere. Slow browsing? I'm actually leaving town for about a week. But we have a large number of resources here... and helpful users. My first suggestions would be... Direct Connection - get the most direct connection to your modem... take all routers off. Swap IT - swap out your Ethernet and Coaxial cables if you can. REBOOT - As always with problems like this, reboot your computer and cable modem... leave them off for 10-15 seconds to make sure the memory is fresh. Splitters? - ALSO, if you have ANY splitters on that coax before the modem, try it without them... make sure you put them back on if no improvement. Your technician may have put them on their to purposely drop dB in your signal (that will actually improve your signal in some cases) Good luck, if you figure out what the problem is please post a topic about your resolution. Other people with your same problem will be grateful.

Is it easier now? Much has been done since you posted this.

I would love to open up a server in Australia. Just have to find affordable hosting. Currently only 1% of testmy.net's traffic comes from there. Tell your friends about the site... if more people come from a country it gives me even more reason to go to the expense of a server there. Over the next year I hope to build up a large list of world servers. Canada, United Kingdom, India / Asia, Central / South America and Australia are already on my to-do list. It's just a matter of finding suitable VPS hosting at a good price point. The difference between how I do things and how some other guys with many test locations do things is that my mirrors aren't donations. I did that in the past and found that it's very hard to keep track of the server quality... so I stopped doing it. What's the point if half the servers can't be trusted. ... leads people to question the reliability of the servers that can be trusted. Just to let you know... going off my traffic statistics for Australia, the mirror will most likely be hosted on your East Coast. Sidney or Melbourne. I have to first do research to see how the internet pipelines run across your country. Again, please tell your friends. This site is word-of-mouth

Damn, that sucks. Sorry man. Look on the bright side, it's symmetrical at least. :-/

Qwest.net 40/20 -- No tweaking to the browser or OS -- Runs me $120/month :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 34796 Kbps about 34.8 Mbps (tested with 51200 kB) Download Speed is:: 4248 kB/s or 4.2 MB/s Upload Connection is:: 12858 Kbps about 12.9 Mbps (tested with 17950 kB) Upload Speed is:: 1570 kB/s or 1.6 MB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Dallas, TX USA) Test Time:: 2010-09-30 17:38:13 GMT D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/NHQCLX7UW U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/JUCVZ0KY5 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 [!] Moving in a couple weeks... switching back to Cox Communications 50/5 because Qwest's best offering in my new area is 20Mbps/768Kbps (BOOOOO!) -- Goodbye insane upload --- But hello cheaper bill and 50Mbps!

This is like as fast as my first home broadband (even faster than that on the upload). Highly recommended. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 2397 Kbps about 2.4 Mbps (tested with 4096 kB) Download Speed is:: 293 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA) Test Time:: 2010-09-30 16:31:08 GMT Bottom Line:: 42X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 3.49 sec Tested from a 4096 kB file and took 14 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Running at 293% of hosts average (Myvzw.com) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/61SXCR5F0 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; DROIDX Build/VZW) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17 480X854 motorola DROIDX [!] :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Upload Connection is:: 536 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 1496 kB) Upload Speed is:: 65 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Dallas, TX USA) Test Time:: 2010-09-30 16:36:07 GMT Bottom Line:: 9X faster than 56K 1MB Upload in 15.75 sec Tested from a 1496 kB file and took 22.877 seconds to complete Upload Diagnosis:: Running at 146% of hosts average (Myvzw.com) U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/4AMKW1Z29 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.1-update1; en-us; DROIDX Build/VZW) AppleWebKit/530.17 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/530.17 480X854 motorola DROIDX [!] Post your mobile test results.

Have you tried the secondary server yet?

Well, from the information you've shown me you may have a problem. dlewis23 is in FL and gets great speeds all the way to the mirror in CA. Start a new thread in the help section, or in the Comcast section about this.

Chrome rules

Just good with a map

What's you package?

I further refined this since my last post... my connection for example goes... 507KB, 4MB .. then straight to 50MB ... if on the 4MB test I wasn't running to par I'd be taken to the 25MB test. -D

Hey Buntz.. give the Cali Mirror a try Here's mine I just ran :::.. testmy.net test results ..::: Download Connection is:: 29131 Kbps about 29.13 Mbps (tested with 25600 kB) Download Speed is:: 3556 kB/s or 3.6 MB/s Upload Connection is:: 11024 Kbps about 11 Mbps (tested with 17950 kB) Upload Speed is:: 1346 kB/s or 1.3 MB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net (Dallas, TX USA) Test Time:: 2010-09-28 16:44:18 GMT D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/KG31YA62V U-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/2HPDX8KSO User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; U; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; en-US; rv:1.9.2.10) Gecko/20100914 Firefox/3.6.10 [!]

That just meant that your connection wasn't fast enough to be forwarded to what I had setup. But I just added a 15MB test in there to bridge that gap. You'll still hit a few, but they will jump up faster now. Like for me, it goes 96, 512, 4MB then now jumps to 25MB... and depending on how that test goes sometimes it will jump for me to 50MB. Tests selected under 6MB download and 1.5MB upload require autoforwarding for the exact reason that dlewis23 stated.

Good idea... I may have to work that in

Are you experiencing slow speeds all over the internet? Is your router a router/modem combo? There are so many things that could be the issue. But we'll try to help you narrow it down. I also recommend posting something in the help section >> https://testmy.net/ipb/forum/7-general-help/ -- sounds like you may have a more serious issue and that's not what this thread is about.

Please let me know (in this thread) if you experience any problems with the forwarding of the tests. Sorry if anyone experienced any issues while I was working. They should be resolved. I've hit it with a bunch of scenarios and seems to check out on my end. The tests now forward more intelligently. If you have a super fast connection the SmarTest feature will save you more time than it used to by skipping over what the program believes to be unnecessary sizes for your assumed connection type. The tests now offer even larger files sizes. Added an aprox. 18MB Upload Test. And opened up forwarding for the download tests up to 200MB. If your connection requires files this large to get more accurate results the system will make sure that you get them. I also finally figured out the bug that was causing errors with the larger upload tests in Andriod. Still working on the bug with Andriod upload test on WiFi. It works perfectly fine on 3G but it seems that there may be browser limitations on WiFi... and if you have an insane connection it wigs out. I have looked deep into the problem, hopefully with the Android 2.2 update the problem will go away. Verizon promised me it was going to be out along time ago... still haven't seen my update. Damn liar salesmen! I haven't been posting change logs on most of the stuff I've been doing lately. I figure that you guys have eyeballs. But this needed to be posted to let you all know that there is a possibility of anomalies with this type of change. Just let me know if you see anything weird in this thread and I'll look into it. - CA3LE

Re-test guys... I had a misconfiguration. Thanks fro helping me dial in this new server by the way.