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Larger tests sizes are better but can become unnecessary if they're too large. Here's an equation I use. (speed in Mbps / 8 * seconds you'd like the test to run for) So on a 25 Mbps connection where we'd like the test to run for 7 seconds... 25/8*7 = ~22MB So yes, picking the same size (in MB) as your quoted package speed (in Mbps) is pretty much the same... it will yield a slightly longer test time (8 seconds) than what TestMy.net deems as necessary for an accurate result (5-7 seconds). But your connection isn't running at 25 Mbps down. ?t=u&l=50&q=pokeys12's Speed Test Results When you're testing at the low (5.92 Mbps) using 25 MB 25/(5.92/8) = 33.78 sec average (11.46 Mbps) 25/(11.46/8) = 17.45 sec and the high (15.5 Mbps) 25/(15.5/8) = 12.9 sec So 25 MB will take longer than necessary in your case. Even when you're running on the high end. Long story short... A nice quick test will probably be to take your average and round it down a little. Say about -10%, quickly in your head. Call it 10 MB (remember MB is different than Mb). If you end up testing 10 MB and it goes too quickly (that would be nice)... TestMy.net will forward you to a size it thinks will work better. (By default this auto forwarding only happens if the test size is less than 12MB [3 MB for upload tests], there will be a user setting to control these defaults soon. Auto test can do that too.) Using TestMy.net you're able to take extra long tests if that helps you troubleshoot but for average daily testing something that's going to take 5-7 seconds is usually sufficient. When in doubt, click "Test My Download Speed" or "Test My Upload Speed" (I think that's what you've already been using) and TMN will quickly figure it for you on a per-test basis.

I feel like people often mention their ISP by name. But you have to admit... you just made your first post here and haven't told us who you're with. ? We can see you're on Comcast with a little research... https://testmy.net/compID/160108503386 I'm with Comcast too. But we have vastly different results. Please name them by name. I encourage everyone to speak freely. If you don't like what your ISP is doing, we want to hear about it so that it might help others in the future. We also want to hear about positive stories as well, those help consumers make informed decisions just as much. "Earning Trust" is for members who haven't made enough posts to rank up yet. There is also post moderation for the first few posts you make. After that you're more free here. You can thank the spam robot plague for that one. That moderation is really only for that reason. Humans tend to follow the rules here. So anyone here with over 2 posts (since about 2012) has gone through the human approval process. Forums that don't take these precautions are flooded with junk. Your ISP might monitor these forums. They're freely available to everyone. They especially might read it if it contains their name. I hope they're listening like that. That would show that they really care. But this is the only speed test I can guarantee you is not in the pocket of any ISP. I'm just a consumer, not a conspiracy. I started the predecessor to what would become TestMy.net when I was 15 in 1996 as a tool just for myself. It was actually an accident that it ever got out in the wild. I was afraid to open it to the public because of the cost of bandwidth... and then it became too popular too early and I had to shut down. Later to re-open as TestMy.net. They definitely have a monopoly. ? I also think that they are in agreement with their "competition". The monopoly is more because of the technology used. Cable is better. Hughes performed worse for you because --- it's worse. Your connecting out to a satellite and the roundtrip distance is much further than you're getting with Comcast. Even if the two connections were performing at the same exact download and upload speed it would feel much snappier on the land based connection. You'll rarely see two cable companies in the same territory but you'll often find DSL. Cable companies gobble up other cable companies because they want the infrastructure and they don't want to eventually be gobbled up by the other company. I believe they allow DSL providers to exist so they aren't technically viewed as a monopoly. Coaxial cable is capable of amazing bandwidth, we actually don't know the real limit because we keep improving the technology on the end of the cables. But unless the DSL provider is connecting you with direct fiber to the home (FTTH) like Fios... they can't truly compete with cable. In my experience trying to get FTTH, it's never available wherever I'm looking to move. The screename FI3ER would confuse people even more than CA3LE so I guess it's for the best. SpaceX is developing Starlink, a low Earth orbit satellite network that I think is going to change the entire game and redefine how we view satellite connections. Because light travels faster in a vacuum than it does through fiber and Starlink can make much shorter routes to get to the same location... I imagine it will be (one of) Elon's real money makers in the end. Please make it affordable -- for everyone! The only thing I'd improve on is to have you spell my domain name correctly. Let's see if we can improve your situation. If we can't then I will advise you to call and demand credit until the situation is remedied. And you will get a credit. In fact, I'm still getting monthly donations from someone who told me proof provided by TestMy.net got them $420 credit (credited to them over a 12 month period). I've had to do it myself numerous times. If you're only getting 500 Kbps, that's patently absurd and you're definitely due credit for the broadband service you didn't receive. I've received credit in the past for way less disparity. But you need to prove (first to yourself) that it's not your own fault in any way. We can guide you through that process. Tell us a little more about your setup. Let's start with ... how many computers/devices do you have and are you testing on wifi? Tell me more details about your computers, do you have ethernet?

Also, if you'd like to see the results of the test's own stopwatch for comparison click the "Details & Share" tab on the results. ... 100% always more accurate than a stopwatch controlled by your fingers.

Megabits are different than Megabytes. This is confusing for many. Keep in mind there are 8 bits to 1 byte. (see Understanding Bandwidth) Your 1.3 Mbps result means that you transfer a file at 0.1625 MB/s. Example from your results. TestMy.net Test ID : EbLIyTfw8 In this result you transferred 1.8 MB (or 1843 kB) of data. Your bandwidth speed is 1.36 Mbps, you'll see your speed in bytes next to that... 171 kB/s (or 0.17 MB/s) --- (1843 kB / 171 kB/s) = should have taken 10.77 seconds for that test to run.

The first number is a combined average upload and download used for ranking, then download average and upload average follow. Normally these are colored with arrows next to them to show what they are but I pulled that screenshot from an un-styled internal list of my own.

Maybe whatever was causing the issue has resolved itself. Maybe you restarted your browser and it fixed it. If multithread is being held back and not single thread I actually look for things that might be blocking the CPU. The multithread test is more CPU intensive, especially at larger sizes on faster connections. When it normally performs quickly and you all of a sudden see it perform much worse than the single thread download test it may be indicating another issue... not an issue with your ISP, something else. It just happens to be detectable by TestMy.net's test process. I've found in those situations that a restart of the browser or computer resolves this. I've seen it where it was happening in only one browser and also had it happen in all browsers. Your more recent results look very nice now. Kimi223's Multithread Speed Test Results Kimi223's Dallas TX Speed Test Results

Sorry I'm responding so late. Try this for me, make sure multithread is enabled then manually select 200 MB from the download test page. Then immediately after run the test the way you normally did before. After you're done let me know and I'll take a look at the details.

Sorry I didn't see your post sooner. Thank you for the heads up, the link has been corrected. Somehow a trailing "4" ended up in the URL. It's supposed to be https://medium.com/@james_aka_yale/the-4-layer-internet-model-network-engineers-need-to-know-e78432614a4f.

Yes, it should say 50 now... used to only rank the top 20 but I changed it a while back. Thank you for the heads up. Great idea, I need to rework the ranking system right now anyway actually. I'll make it rank everyone and store that to a database. With it stored like that I should be able to do a bunch of new tricks. Thank you, I'll get cracking on that soon. To help satisfy your curiosity... you're number 98.

This isn't a traditional program. Nothing is really installed. It's more of a shortcut. This is a PWA, Progressive Web Application. You can search for "PWA uninstall" to find specific instructions for your OS. Here's instructions from Google for Chrome. https://support.google.com/chrome/answer/9658361?co=GENIE.Platform%3DAndroid&hl=en --- usually I just right click on the icon I no longer want and remove it from that submenu. ☺️

Welcome Mobycore, I think in the end you'll find that TestMy.net more closely represents your real world performance. I see that you've been testing with single thread, there's also a multithread speed test. Other speed tests usually default to multithread. In single thread mode (default) the page itself becomes the file you're downloading. In multithread a bunch of image elements are loaded. In either case the data is random, generated by the program. The transfer is timed and calculated Time/Size to arrive at the throughput. Depends on the server and the connections between your computer and the host. If your passing through a 1000 Mbps router/switch or if you're testing on one of my 1000 Mbps servers then that will limit you to 1000 Mbps. I hope to have all servers upgraded to 10Gbps in the near future. Upload has a limitation, due to the small test sizes. But a multithread upload test is in development that no longer has those limitations. If your upload speed is over 300 Mbps right now, you'll peg the current upload speed test. Different connections handle the different sizes differently. Sometimes larger sizes allow the connection to warm up and average out higher. I've seen others perform better on small bursts then get throttled. TestMy.net can help you discover odd things like this because of the odd options it has. Let me know what browser you're using and the specs of your computer. I need to look closer at both sets of results too. What did you get on LTE? Set and identifier on each device. It will help us keep better track of each one. Go to https://testmy.net/mysettings and change the identifier.

In other words, you want to hack your neighbor's wifi. If your neighbor wants to share that with you and gives you the password... I can help point you in the right direction to pick up that signal at a greater distance. We don't provide or discuss information about defeating security here. Nor do we link to any websites that do. BTW, everything is hackable and hacking strengthens our security. Always has, always will. I feel it plays an important role but it's still better discussed in other forums and dark corners. ... great hacks --- don't get discussed in public forums.

Awesome, thank you for confirming it's fixed.

Think I found the problem. Can you please try again for me?

Can you please try the old version and see if you have the same issue. Following that link will toggle it on and off. The link on the bottom of the homepage is turned back on also.

Have you already seen the city results? eg: New York, NY In NY I'd be looking at Verizon, RCN or Spectrum. Keep in mind that the program automatically does all of the ranking and some smaller, less known companies who aren't ISPs may be listed. These lists aren't human curated. If you hover over the 2nd spectrum listing you'll also find that's for spectrum business, name is being truncated. I'll start logging postal codes and latitude longitude (as detected from the IP and MaxmindDB) and see if we get more interesting details. First a database structure change would need to happen and taking into account the size of my databases it will have to be planned. I have other proposed DB structure changes that I'd like to take care of that will really speed up certain queries. I'll look at adding this and as well as other fields at the same time.

What format would help you the most? Does CSV help or would JSON be more helpful? You could have your program CURL the export URL and you can feed that URL a date range or leave it blank to just download everything and overwrite the file each time.

This is so weird! Here's the rules I'm testing. RewriteRule ^statstest/tekwav$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^statstest/tekwav.$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^statstest/.tekwav$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^statstest/.tekwav.$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] So they are all pointing the the same destination. https://testmy.net/statstest/tekwav -- 404 not found https://testmy.net/statstest/tekwav. -- 200 works https://testmy.net/statstest/.tekwav -- 404 not found https://testmy.net/statstest/.tekwav. -- 200 works They should all work. I went directly to the server IP and had the same result, so it's definitely not cloudflare. lol... I think it's because your username ends in wav ... like a wav file. This probably boils down to a poorly written expression in nginx additional directives. Here's why I have this theory. RewriteRule ^statstest/.ekwav$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] -- 404 not found RewriteRule ^statstest/t.kwav$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] -- 404 not found RewriteRule ^statstest/te.wav$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] -- 404 not found RewriteRule ^statstest/tek.av$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] -- 200 works RewriteRule ^statstest/tekw.v$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] -- 200 works RewriteRule ^statstest/tekwa.$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] -- 200 works results in https://testmy.net/statstest/.ekwav -- 404 not found https://testmy.net/statstest/t.kwav -- 404 not found https://testmy.net/statstest/te.wav -- 404 not found https://testmy.net/statstest/tek.av -- 200 works https://testmy.net/statstest/tekw.v -- 200 works https://testmy.net/statstest/tekwa. -- 200 works As I iterate through, as soon as the URL it no longer ends in "wav" it works. Now the rule is supposed to be looking for .wav not wav Here's the culprit. In nginx additional directives. location ~* .(js|jpg|jpeg|gif|css|tgz|gz|rar|bz2|doc|pdf|ppt|tar|wav|bmp|rtf|swf|ico|flv|txt|woff|woff2|svg|json)$ { etag on; if_modified_since exact; add_header Pragma "public"; add_header Cache-Control "max-age=31536000, public"; } To further test the theory that this is the culprit I add additional test rules to my .htaccess (mod_rewrite) We'll pretend a new member has a name ending in doc and tgz -- then test with one character blocking the pattern I suspect is being detected. RewriteRule ^statstest/tekdoc$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^statstest/tekdo.$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^statstest/tektgz$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] RewriteRule ^statstest/tektg.$ /tools/database/db_search.php?type=user_name&q=tekwav [L,QSA] https://testmy.net/statstest/tekdoc -- 404 not found https://testmy.net/statstest/tekdo. -- 200 works https://testmy.net/statstest/tektgz -- 404 not found https://testmy.net/statstest/tektg. -- 200 works Still, I don't see a mistake in how that nginx directive is written. That should only capture if it has a preceding period. I'll have to think about this. Obviously I can just remove that rule and it will work but I have it there for a reason. Maybe I simply need to remove the leading period and then add it to each. Like this... (update: nevermind, same result) Yup, without that nginx directive it works. I'll try to understand why it's not working as expected and rewrite that directive and post it here for other webmasters.

I need to take a little time to figure out and understand why that's happening specifically for your results and not others. Every other member I try works. To clarify the situation, when was the last time you pulled up your results? Was this working fine before today? Here's an alternative link to your results while I investigate the issue. tekwav's results I've never seen this happen and I've visited tens of thousands of member result links over the years. If it were more widespread I'd think it was a mod_rewrite issue. To test anyway I created an unrelated rule and got the same result. But when I visit the path that the rule is forwarding to... it works, no problem. I also reset apache and nginx in case there was something happening there. Still 404. You've been a member since 2013 and have hundreds of results saved so I assume it's been working up until recently. This has to be one of the most baffling bugs I've ever seen. No joke. It would make more sense if your username had an odd character in it or something. I'll update this thread when I have more information

...and how long ago did Comcast tell you that?

How good is your cellular reception? A 4G hotspot might serve you better.

How did you end up with hughesnet? Are you in a rural area, away from the main grid? Did you have a hard time finding wired service? I ask because it looks like there are a bunch of better choices in your area. https://testmy.net/city/panama_city_fl Have you checked with WOW, Mediacom cable, AT&T or Comcast? (these are direct links to check availability in your area. By the way, TMN is not affiliated with any ISP.)

What area are you in? I'll try to help you find an ISP that can deliver better for you. Sounds to me like they're delaying you so you'll end up stuck in contract. I bet in 2 weeks, "We should have this resolved for you in the next two weeks." We hear your same story with hughesnet, too often. By far the most complained about ISP. I recommend reading HughesNet Service Terms and Conditions HughesNet Service Terms and Conditions - Revised 4-11-16.txt Make sure you return their equipment. They also state, "Note: You will not be refunded your $99 Upfront Fee or other installation charges and fees." -- man! Seriously!? Buyer beware.

Who's your provider (ISP)?

Yes but I haven't personally tested it on a household that's being assigned IPv6 on a per device basis by the ISP. This may be the deal with @pgoodwin1, where each device on his network is getting a specific TMN connectionID. I really need to get my hands on a network that behaves that way to test it out properly. But if each device has a separate public IP... TMN is going to use each unique public IP to generate unique TMN compID's to correspond. @rebrecs - you can also keep track of each device by giving them each unique identifiers. 1, 2, 3, 4, living room, kitchen, etc... lasts until you clear cookies.