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Go to TestMy.net (homepage) and look under the database menu. This option was disabled, I just enabled it for you. Once you enter a name you'll get an invite link that you can use to add members to the group. Your group stats are then saved to an entirely separate database used for results comparisons.

Try running the test with Chrome -- maybe your firefox is buggy. So before, you were able to run the auto test without issues, it's just been recently that this has been happening?

No, I misunderstood your first message. Logging in isn't the issue. Make sure your computer isn't set to sleep, once it falls asleep the program does too. -- it's very common.

If you're logged in it will help if the IP changes. There are new features coming to the next version on TMN that will help even if you aren't logged in. I intend on making this a nonissue going forward. Here's a related post Welcome to TestMy.net by the way, glad you joined.

Parado, sorry for not responding quicker. Ask regulars to the forum, I'm normally much faster at responding. I've had family visiting and now I'm out visiting family. Besides the few awesome, dedicated bad asses in the forum I'm the only one here. When I finally take a few minutes off each year, some questions may not get answered the way this forum intends to help people. I apologize because I saw and read your question as soon as it came in... I just wasn't able to respond. Couple that with my daily email regimen and it doesn't take long before your post/message/email gets piled on top of. It usually weighs on my mind and I do eventually get to many of the messages I may miss while I'm away but it can be extremely difficult (impossible) to get it perfect. After looking at your results and reading your thread I don't see a problem. If TestMy.net is saying 8.1 Mbps... you're getting that speed. It's better than your supposed to get, right? TestMy.net is known by many to be the hardest speed test to get a favorable score on, this is by design. Tests (of any kind) shouldn't be easy if you're trying to gain useful information on a subject. Usually we hear it the other way around, "TestMy.net speed is much lower than the other speed test I use..." -- if iPrimus shows a lower speed on their test it could be due to the route to the server. Even though it's within your ISP doesn't mean that there isn't an issue with that server, the route to that server or the test itself. I just did the iPrimus, Telstra and TestMy.net speed tests all against Sydney AU. (not my normal connection but it still proves my point) Telstra was funny, even though for a large portion of the test my computer was reading only 8 Mbps... then down to far less (trailed off HUGE from the middle to the end), the test itself never indicated any of that happened. It just ignored the bad parts of the result, as ookla speed tests are well known to do. If we were graded like that in school, everyone would have doctorates and would learn nothing. iPrimus -- looks exactly the same as Telstra's test, they're both ookla tests. They both have similar designs and server selection. But iPrimus scored far below the Telstra speed test result. TestMy.net is exactly as I would expect. Shows everything that I saw on the reading coming off my computer while it was happening. Sorry it doesn't make people feel as good or want to share their scores as much... but it's the truth. I'm here to help you with the truth, sometimes it hurts. In those instances, if you listen, it will help. According to the true test, the connection I'm on doesn't fair as well to Australia as the other guys would want me to believe. Even a multithread speed test on TestMy.net (targeting only Sydney, AU) can only achieve 25 Mbps on this connection. That's all she's got! Funny thing is, after the initial tests I ran both of those tests (iPrimus and Telstra) at the exact same time... and they returned impossible results. Somehow I showed more bandwidth on the Telstra test while the other test was running. Think about this -- I drew more bandwidth, away from the test... yet the test was able to display significantly more bandwidth than I was supposedly capable of in the original test result. What?! A combined 44 Mbps against Australia on a US connection that has a hard time pulling 25 Mbps out of Dallas. Uh, no. Do the same on TestMy.net and you'll see that the speed is split between the two results... aggregate the scores and you'll arrive at the same speed you'd expect to see off a single test. This is what any tech would expect to see in that situation, because TMN is a real test and has no vested interest in your score being one way or the other. Here's a Dallas result just now on this connection. Sure, I hit 40 Mbps... briefly. Would you call that 40 Mbps or anywhere close? Other tests algorithms may make it appear that way... their motto - keep the best, ignore the rest. So, that iPrimus test also performed far lower on my end. Not a reliable resource. My main point however is that you really should stop wasting your time with all the BS speed tests out there. You've finally found the real one. Happy Testing!

Currently you can't see that information. In the next version you'll be able to see all of the IP's you've used since you joined TestMy.net. Even going back years before the release that gives you that ability. The backend has been part of the site for a long time, you're just not able to see this as a normal user right now. (For privacy this will be restricted to showing your own IP information.) The program is even smart enough to track your IP's as they change, even if you aren't signed in. A feature I've always wanted to add. When I originally finished the backend that makes that all work I was exhausted, it was part of a large programming session. I plan on opening access to this and much more in the near future. There are MANY hidden facets to TestMy.net that I haven't shared yet. There's at least 2-4X more content and tools hidden than are publicly released/available. I hope you stick around to see. For now, I pulled up this information for you and will send it to your PM inbox. Hope this helps, sorry it's not currently a live feature. Should be a pretty sweet addition when it's released. I know I want it... usually means others will find it useful too.

Depends on what you're paying for... what package do you have?

Here's a trick made just for you. Visit this URL to enable and disable the filter algorithm that controls that. https://testmy.net/?incMoreCookie=1 You can define the sensitivity of what's included with an optional extra variable. A value of 1-100 will change the outcome of what's included. (e.g. iMcVar=2 querying the US right now is showing 37 ISPs, when I change that value to 80 the same query results in 407 ISPs listed, same query without that iMcVar variable results in 506 ISPs listed) https://testmy.net/?iMcVar=20 (change the value 2 to something between 1-100 -- a higher number includes more) What I was doing in developing this option was opening two browser tabs/windows. One with the query I wanted to modify and one with the https://testmy.net/?iMcVar=20 URL. Then modify the iMcVar in one tab and refresh the other until it's displaying the right number of results. Sometimes you might not want to include everything, it doesn't make sense most of the time to look at the ISPs who only have only 1 client testing. These settings and many more hidden will be included in a new settings control panel. No ETA but it is coming.

You're welcome. The number is different because in that example you're averaging the last 32407 results, in the other example you're averaging the last 50 (selectable up to 1000). Depending on how many results you're averaging the average can change.

Welcome Johndoe, You're seeing the average speed for your provider, the Speed Index is the current average of all users on TestMy.net. Here's what it looks like on my computer right now... The Speed Index changes throughout the day because the average speed fluctuates.

Anyone pulling 600 Mbps on TestMy.net has nothing to complain about. People can get differing results because speedtest.net and TestMy.net have come up with different solutions. They are fundamentally different on nearly every level so the results can't truly be compared. There are about 10 different reasons why TMN can score lower on the same connection on the same computer. I've exhaustively talked about the subject all over this forum and others. Those who don't dismiss TMN's results often report back that they improve on their TMN result and get it to fall more in line with speedtest.net's inflated numbers. TestMy.net doesn't just pull numbers out of the sky, something has to influence the result to make it read lower. If everything were 100% perfectly ideal, with zero limitations between the host and client machines... TMN would throw you an error because it knows it's not possible.

@mudmanc4 I think by whitelisted @FriskyMoose means that the ISPs prioritize the route or do other things to make them look better.

I was unable to reproduce the error and didn't find your IP or anything out of the ordinary in the error logs. @mudmanc4 is probably right, it's local.

I'll look into the logs and see if there's an issue. Get back with you soon.

In your case, Mbps can convert to kB/s because you're under 8 Mbps. ... although this is already done for you, just look at the gray numbers next to your speed.

Your speed is shown in both ways. First in Mbps (or Kbps if you're under 1 Mbps), then in MB/s (or in kB/s if you're under 1 MB/s). Some people want to know their binary transfer speed and others want to know their speed in Mbps. Please read https://testmy.net/understand-bandwidth for more information. You can't make it display in Kbps or kB/s unless you're slow enough, you shouldn't want to... it's like telling people how tall you are in millimeters, you CAN do it... but it's not the right way, you should convert up. Just like I do here. Happy Testing!

True that. Pretty much every Disney character is rehashed from classic literature. Walt Disney was a master of stealing ideas and characters. Okay, okay, he took inspiration from them. Key word, took.

No problem, we're happy to show you around anytime. I think Kaa is a very cool nick btw. "Despite his polite, unhurried demeanor, animals seem to have a fearful respect for Kaa."

Click on "My Results" in the menu. If you aren't seeing what you expect you may have a filter turned on from a previous search. Clicking "Default" in that case usually helps. I see your results at https://testmy.net/quickstats/Kaa -- some tests on Sprint recently and a bunch on Charter. https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=06132016&x=30&l=500&q=Kaa If you ran some tests at work and weren't logged in then there's no way for me to connect your username to those results. Make sure that you're signed in when you're testing for the best logging. If you go back to work and run a test under your username then you can then go to your results and look under the "Computer ID"... follow the link from the result that you took while you were at work. That will show you all your previous results. -- your results are still saved in my databases unless you deleted them.

Could be that your connection is causing the test to fail. https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=06092016&x=90&l=50&q=Jtemple If you come back to your computer and the test has failed to progress it's usually an indication that your connection has dropped out. During the test your connection died, causing it to fail. The next version of the auto speed test will recover itself when this happens and log the event. If your seeing this often then it's probably a good idea to follow up and see why it's happening. To avoid it from affecting the tests as much you can lengthen the test time to over 1 hour. Makes it less likely to occur. If you're currently testing with a 5 minute interval and you're seeing that it's happening regularly, you can almost certainly ascertain that your connection is having frequent disconnects.

Did this just start happening? How long ago did this start? How often?

I haven't had any issues with tests completing myself and not too many errors in the logs. I found your errors in the logs, "Broken pipe:" with a referer of https://testmy.net/results -- I've been investigating intermittent issues with that for a while now. It used to happen on my iPhone then it stopped happening. I never got a definitive answer on the cause. Really hate when that happens. Every so often with programming something works correctly all of a sudden before you understand why it wasn't working before. Intermittent issues are my ultimate nightmare, especially when I can't physically reproduce the issue myself. So a few days ago when you were testing, there were no issues? Sorry if you have any issues posting in the forum. I don't think it's related but since the last IP.Board update a few days ago we've had some issues. I had a few posts that double posted because it appeared like it hadn't posted. They should release an update soon, if there are too many more issues related to that update it will be rolled back. After you respond back I'd like to work with you directly to troubleshoot the issue. If it's happening on a regular, predictable basis then your help is invaluable to me. Like I said, I can't produce the error myself. Something special about your setup, settings or something is causing it to be triggered. What the cause could be... I'd have to dig to find out. When I personally saw a similar issue it happened so infrequently it made it hard to catch. I can make your account do some special things that can help me track down the issue. I'll just need you on the other end to hit pages for me and try to reproduce the error. Thank you for your support!

...the dial-up bbs days never ended!

Very cool

Should be resolved site wide, thanks for the heads up.