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I just sped read your post.. and didn't read any other posts so this might already be answered. USB shouldn't be used longer than 12' ~~ you should use ethernet anyway

Well, I wish I had an uplink that fast.. lol, I am on 100 Mbps right to that backbone though. And the number of users online is not the number of people testing... don't worry, most of the time I have enough bandwidth to serve everyone.... but it will be getting pretty critical soon and I am going to be buying a couple more servers also on 100Mbps uplinks and will balance out the load between them.

I got that all fixed. the MySQL server crashed because I had forgotten to write a disconnect in the results script... so instead of disconnecting after the short command that the results script gives mySQL it queued up a crap load of tasks... this timeout after a while but can bog a server down with the kind of traffic testmy.net gets .... But it's alllllll goooooood now, server load is down and everything looks to be running just fine.

JESUS... --- guys look at his averages also .. https://testmy.net/s_engine.php?type=comp_id&q=625357222604

I have rewritten the method that I use to log test scores to the mySQL server. I used to have the test results page send a request to a 3rd party script which in turn added the data to the database. I basically cut out the middle man and now the results page takes care of this itself... trust me there originally was a very good reason why I had the middle man in the first place, but now it wasn't necessary because of other updates I have made. This update will most likely be a silent one for most users, many people will not see a difference. But on the server-side data will be entered more quickly and some users who were having problems with logging before (cholla.. your one I think) will not have problems now... because your firewall doesn't think my site is doing something fishy (I can see how some firewalls would think that was fishy... shit it was sending a hidden request.. hehe) Enjoy! ~~ I will try to think of other ways to make this better here, can't wait to get the multi-server setup going

hoodlegend. Posting sponsor links is prohibited here. This is a warning. My definition of this is a link to something that you stand to benefit from financially. You CAN for instance link to a website that offers a program for download, and in some cases I will allow links to programs that cost money... but you can't link to that site if you or anyone else is selling that program through an affiliate program. Sorry

Do you have any internet security programs?

turn off your firewall

Your getting over 1 Mbps, that's not that bad... what did they quote you?

God - DirecWay must really suck balls. Everyone is ALWAYS talking crap about them and people actually start whole websites about how much they suck. lol

very nice, I need to remember that one

Oh yea... Trial-By-Fire ~~ only way to learn..... this is how I have learned everything on computers, I break it and have to put it back together

Do you have any firewalls running?

See... I don't have that problem. And it would be very hard for your browser to cahce any of my tests. Change your browsers max cache size to 5000 (or about 5MB) this may fix the problem. With highspeed it really doesn't need to be bigger than that Here are my scores, I scored lower on the retest... upload was the same either way. And by the way, my connection if running like shit the past week or so. :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4182 Kbps about 4.2 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB) Download Speed is:: 511 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Test Time:: Tue Feb 22 2005 12:07:35 GMT-0700 (US Mountain Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 75X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 29.43 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-OSEHC7W9Y RETEST :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 4011 Kbps about 4 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB) Download Speed is:: 490 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Test Time:: Tue Feb 22 2005 12:07:57 GMT-0700 (US Mountain Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 72X faster than 56K 1MB download in 2.09 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 24.14 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-J9OLA08M4 :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 534 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 579 KB) Upload Speed is:: 65 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Test Time:: Tue Feb 22 2005 12:08:33 GMT-0700 (US Mountain Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 10X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 15.75 sec Diagnosis: Looks Great : 14.84 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-9QJZHETKW RETEST :::.. Upload Stats ..::: Connection is:: 534 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 579 KB) Upload Speed is:: 65 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Test Time:: Tue Feb 22 2005 12:08:52 GMT-0700 (US Mountain Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 10X faster than 56K 1MB upload in 15.75 sec Diagnosis: Looks Great : 14.84 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-1XF86YV0I

Cool, thank you guys, glad you like. Use it to search from now on and you'll be supporting this site

My next one is going to be silent too... I used to have that same case Van, but mine was the white one ~~ huge case!

cool cool... this is the one I got a few months ago http://www.newegg.com/app/viewproductdesc.asp?description=11-144-001&DEPA=1

that program works great. I use it to simulate slower connections so I can test the accuracy of my tests

Niiiiice

Try this first.. Open > https://testmy.net/forum/index.php?action=dlattach;topic=1013.0;id=65 -- open the EXE inside, don't worry I assure you it's safe Click DSL > check Modify All Network Adapters > click Optimal Settings > Click APPLY ~~~ reboot and re-test ~~ post what you get and we will see from there if we can tweak you anymore

Actually you are so close to where it wouldn't have said that. At 90% you are in great shape. Plus, keep in mind that this is an average for your host overall. If some people on your host have better packages (like they pay for 3 Mbps connection or something) this may change the idea of what's ideal. What package do you have with your host? You may want to check out this tweak guide post .. over in the guides section of the site >> www.testmy.net/topic-1013

Try unplugging your modem for few seconds and plug it back in. This will manually make your modem request settings. This may help you get the new settings faster than waiting. Re-Test after and let me know. Also, you may want to tweak your connection. It might not be optimized -- see the post in the guides section .. >> here >> https://testmy.net/topic-1013 I'm on 5Mbps also.. check it out :::.. Download Stats ..::: Connection is:: 5335 Kbps about 5.3 Mbps (tested with 2992 KB) Download Speed is:: 651 KB/s Tested From:: http://www.testmy.net/ Test Time:: Mon Feb 21 2005 05:44:38 GMT-0700 (US Mountain Standard Time) Bottom Line:: 95X faster than 56K 1MB download in 1.57 sec Diagnosis: Awesome! 20% + : 64.25 % faster than the average for host (cox.net) Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/id-JGWBAQ9KC

Firefox is still better...

Yes, that is a good one. Also, I reccomend Linksys BEFCU10 (or something like that) they are awesome modems... very fast.