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Depends on your use case and what you're trying to accomplish. Tell us more about your network. Give us some of your common scenarios you encounter that make you think, "this needs to be faster." A possible great in between comes in the form of 2.5 Gbps ethernet. Here's an excellent LTT video from a few months ago on the subject. Currently TestMy.net is using 10G SFP+ for its internal network in the data center. Here's the simple 4 port switch I've been recently using. 100% reliably running for 1.5 years now. MikroTik 5-Port Desktop Switch, 1 Gigabit Ethernet Port, 4 SFP+ 10Gbps Ports (CRS305-1G-4S+IN) You need adapters and cables for each machine. If they're close to the switch then I'd recommend just using copper twinax cables [example]. Longer runs you'll need to get multi-mode transceivers (2) [example] and fiber patch cable to your length [example 10M length] Two computers 10G connected can be anywhere from ~$400 on up (switch, 2 adapters, 2 copper SFP+). And that's going the inexpensive route. Trust me, it only gets more expensive, as deep as your wallet can go. Unless you have particularly long runs, copper 10G is just fine. In fact, you'd never know the difference... unless you're a computer scientist. BUT, if you put fiber in you can upgrade to 40G and beyond easily later. Really, if you're already running cables... why not? They aren't as expensive as they used to be. If I were building a new house, fiber runs would definitely be in there. Again, knowing your use case would help us know which option might be best for you. For most people, that 2.5 Gbps option that uses existing cabling looks very promising. They have a bunch of USB adapters etc for 2.5 Gbps too, just search and you'll find it.

I'll do some more testing where I'll try to emulate a variable connection like yours and make improvements for the future to help in situations like yours. Thank you for the feedback and updates.

Thank you too.

Please send a video, that definitely can help.

Does this happen only every so often? I'm looking into this and trying to reproduce the issue on my end. Next time you encounter this try to manually select your test size instead. I'd try a smaller test size than what fails because I suspect that your connection may be getting dropped or something during the process, causing the test to fail. I'll work to detect the issue so you can get a more useful error or make it so the test can correct for whatever the error is and report to you that it happened.

Looks like you've had results since you posted this. Did you find the issue?

Are you certain that the test was running? Did your computer go to sleep or hibernate? When signed in you'll get an email when it's complete. Here's all the results I see right now May 22 and May 23rd ?t=c&d=05-22-2020+%2F+05-23-2020&l=50&q=1010344289368's Speed Test Results

I haven't tried cFosSpeed. They make it sound like it would make a difference but I'd be curious to see the details of how it performs here. Run a speed test with and without it installed and share your results with us here. Also run a latency test and share those results.

This is just wrong. So unprofessional on their part. I'm curious, do you happen to know anyone around your area who also has Buckeye? I'd be interested to see if they have similar issues... they might not even know it because they aren't testing for it.

Hey Gabe, made a little update to that. There's a copy button now. Before it was set to select the entire textarea when you clicked it. Now you can make your own selection and copy like you normally do. Or click 'copy' and it will copy the entire text area to your clipboard.

Have you tried comparing a different VPN host? Try GigaNews (VyprVPN) -- you can use their 15-day trial for testing and cancel it if you no longer need it.

Which car is yours? What's your number?

Cool, I'd love to check it out, post up the links when they're available. I started the domain TestMy.net in 2001. But my speed test pre-dates TestMy.net, going back to 1996. The original domain name was lost because I couldn't afford to pay for it -- maybe I just forgot to pay for it -- somewhere around 2003. WebArchive surftohere.com year 2000 --- membership / usernames started in 2004.

What's your zip code? -- are you certain that there aren't any other options? A week ago I emailed the President of Buckeye, Geoff.Shook... pretty sure the email got to his inbox, no send return error. ... no response, not like I expected one. But I was hoping he might notice it and shake a branch to get things moving for you. Long shot. If I were in a similar situation, being ignored (by someone I was paying for service) first, I'd make a phone call and give them a chance to make it right. If it continues and you see no hope of it getting better, hopefully there are more reliable options available in your area. You may have to look outside of your normal consumer options. The advertised speed may be slower but if the connection sustains that speed and doesn't fluctuate heavily like you're seeing now.... then maybe a slower speed will be an improvement overall in your case. Sometimes you have to vote with your feet and walk over to the competition.

Is your modem a modem/router combo or is your router a separate unit? If there are multiple ethernet jacks out try connecting to a different one. I've seen where one is bad but the others are fine before. Because if you're testing on wifi just fine and testing at your friends house on ethernet (using the same cable) just fine... you've eliminated a lot of possibilities there. You're right, it really just leaves the ethernet connection of the router. If your modem is separate from your router you should try connecting directly to the computer from the modem (instead of the router). You already did this test at your friends house but I would still do it for good measure. You may have to powercycle the modem to get it to address the new device it's connected to. If your modem is combined with your router... and you don't have alternative outputs to try then yes, you might need a new modem. Whatever the case, please let us know how it goes.

I'm from Phoenix where we also don't change the timezone... maybe that's why I'm so bad with daylight savings adjustments. ... in Phoenix we don't follow DST -- I think because DST is stupid (lol, j/k... ...but seriously). I live in Colorado now so it annoys me twice a year. Everyone just needs to do a permanent shift. Better yet, UTC. That would be cool but will never happen in our lifetimes.

My bad, in the process I fixed it... then undid my work with an improper keystroke. Thought I rechecked it before telling you, sorry. This will display correctly for you now. I'll do some work in a bit and using what you've told me I'll make a couple of hidden options for you to alter the export format to your liking.

I can provide alternate options for that. Seems simple enough. Have you seen the My Average Tool? I think this is what you may be trying to accomplish with your raw result data. Here's you hourly averages, using your time zone. myaverage?q=MvH&dateFull=01-01-2020+%2F+05-07-2020&clientTime=1 You can also graph by day of the week, month, year. Your speed definitely fluctuates by time of day! Wow. So if that's what you were working on... wish granted. Let me know if this helps.

Fixed. Thank you.

I wasn't ignoring you, was just finding it hard to get the appropriate time to catch up on the thread once I noticed it. Then it kept growing. This thread made me realize that my notifications when you type @CA3LE were on but set to only notify me with a popup here and not by email. I changed my preferences so I'll be properly notified. I had too many notifications piled up so I was no longer noticing new items. All caught up now. Well... with this thread anyway. If you are being throttled you can test for this by connecting through a VPN host. GigaNews has a free 15 day trial, make sure to pick a plan that has VyprVPN. Keep in mind that connecting through an intermediary will slow you down. But if you're being throttled you may see an improvement instead of a drop... that may help provide an answer. Test with TestMy.net connected normally, then enable the VPN to a nearby location, make sure you're connection is fully established by opening another browser (go to any known site -- I'd go to https://testmy.net/iptools https://testmy.net/database and refresh it to see the IP details change - it usually take a few seconds to get the connection fully re-established) -- once you know you're connected through the VPN re-test the connection. If your connection is faster through the VPN --- it shouldn't be, that's a sign.

... well, looks like you kinda did tell them that. How did they respond to that? I don't see a response yet... continuing down the topic now.

To that I would say... You have no control over what happens once the data leaves your footprint but you do have control over who you're peering with. This issue appears to be caused by edge connections leaving "your footprint". Basically, some of YOUR internet providers aren't delivering. This is trickling down to me, the customer. You can see in my traceroutes where the massive spike in latency occurs! This should help techs track down the weak links. That should be where you investigate and if it ends up outside of your control... then it's within the control of one of your peering providers. YOU choose your internet providers just like I choose mine. You are responsible for your peers and if they aren't performing for your customers to the point it's affecting their connections... then you need to pick new peers and strengthen links to best accommodate your customers. Not even barely dug into the details yet and it's very obvious that this is an issue on their end, leaving their network. You're definitely getting the run around and are due credit... going back to at least when you first started notifying them of the issues. ... getting back to it.

No problem, this is going to take a little time to fully catch up on all that's written. You have quite the case here. Right now (after cleaning out the responses that hughesnet people posted on this topic for some reason) I'm reading into your communication logs with your ISP. At this part, Uhhhhhh... that person is a moron. 35GB, over 24 hours... off the top of my head, you don't need very much to do that. Let's do some basic math (a subject apparently unknown to that rep) for fun. 35 * 1024 = 35840 MB 35840 / 24 = 1493 MB per hour 1493 / 60 = 25 MB per minute (rounding up) 25 / 60 = 0.42 MB per second 0.42 * 8 = 3.36 Mbps consistently is all it takes to push 35 GB per day in bandwidth. So early on I'm getting an idea of who you're dealing with on the other end. Frustrating. ... getting back to it.

Hi @entrappedmind sorry I'm slow catching up. I'm taking the time to read this topic in depth now and will respond soon.

Normally there isn't any degradation. But recently I have seen FF act up. Tabs crashing, requiring restarts often. I'll go to open a link in a new tab and the new tab opens crashed and tells me I need to restart. This is just very recently for me. Here's a FF result just now, 200 MB manual selection. TestMy.net Test ID : 4-PO~sDOa And here's the same 200 MB test immediately after in Chrome. I have literally 50+ tabs open in Chrome too. TestMy.net Test ID : 6~XIM_LfH So I'm seeing a 28% drop right now. In your case, it's much more severe. You may have something more going on. If you haven't already maybe try restoring firefox to default and see if that improves. You could also look into any add-ons you may have enabled and disable them one at a time and see if you get any improvement. 75% drop off between browsers tells me there's probably more going on there. Because I personally never see that much of a discrepancy... and I'm running the same tests as you are.