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Nevermind, I made it link to your posts and added a link "FC" for followed content next to that. Hope that helps.

I made it link to your followed content... does that help?

... I've used the download test to adjust stream quality too. For instance, a couple of months ago I was on a connection with limited bandwidth but I wanted to watch some TV shows I had on my computer at home. The stream was playing all slow, kept pausing and pissing me off so I ran a quick speed test. Saw that I had only 1.5 Mbps down, so I went into the settings on StreamToMe and set it to like 1.2 Mbps or something a little lower than the available bandwidth... played perfect, looked nice too. Another example, I'm driving on a 12 hour road trip. Watching a video on my iPhone that's on my computer at home, it starts to have issues so I run a test. 160 Kbps down... ouch. I just turned the video quality to the lowest and turned audio quality to 128 Kbps and finished my movie with only audio and blocky shadows. But at least it didn't skip or pause.

I think he's talking more about his upload speed EB Welcome Eonofaeon, I would trust TestMy.net's upload results over all others, I'm biased but Twitch users are a growing segment of the population here because they rely on TMN's results. ... you know that you have a problem, so I think it's obvious which results to trust. If you had a nice clean 5 Mbps then your stream wouldn't be having issues. You may be bursting 5 Mbps here and there but there may be pauses or drops that cause your true overall speed to drastically drop. Now that you have an idea that you may have an issue go upload a video to youtube, I see that you're on Windows, while you upload watch your bandwidth with a program like FreeMeter (please let me know of better free bandwidth monitors for Windows, been a while since I've used Windows) ... (watch the bandwidth on your monitoring software during the TMN upload test too.) ...I will bet you that your speed when you upload to youtube is in line with the TestMy.net results. Other tests try to give you the best case scenario, TestMy.net doesn't sugarcoat the data or manipulate the process. I start time, initiated an upload, stop time. I leave it up to your computer and Internet connection to perform their best between start and stop. If something holds up the process... the results suffer. As for your download, try the speed test mirrors and multithread speed test. Both can provide deeper insight into your issues.

Hey JoshfromKS, I see your results at https://testmy.net/compID/6245265704240 (that you took before your registered) ... I don't see any multithread results, run a multithread speed test. If you score much higher it can indicate a few different issues. Try that, on the results page click the 'share' tab... paste us the results.

No problem, my pleasure. ... thanks for using it. Please spread the word.

I wish it did that. Those details, what I call TiP (Test in Progress) data, are only available on classic linear speed tests over 1.5 MB. The upload speed test and multithread speed test do not have that ability... yet. I'm working on it. I'm also going to enable TiP for tests under 1.5 MB. It's a complicated issue as to why under 1.5 MB and under doesn't work with TiP... for that, I know the solution, I just need to take the time. It's just going to be tedious and time consuming. I have it slated for update but it's a lower priority. I'm working on making that happen with the upload and multithread too. Which is definitely not a straight forward build. It's a long process of trial and error, it's not like I'm asking normal things out of your browser. There also aren't books out there on how to build this stuff, e.g. "Internet Speed Test Building For Dummies". Instead there are trillions of bits of information scattered across the Internet. The answer to what I want to do is out there, it's just not laid out for me. On top of that, sometimes pieces of the puzzle are missing because either browser or language capabilities need to catch up and give me the ability to do what I'm trying to do. I've been developing that TiP system completely blind, not even knowing if all the work will pay off and actually work to produce useful information. It's worked beautifully on my classic download speed test but when it comes to the other tests... I'm not even sure if it's possible yet. There are challenges to both.. just know that I am developing but it takes time. I wish that you all could see my vision for TMN, stick around and you will. ... I know that doesn't help you much right now. Maybe I should have that window shrink for results without TiP, with an explanation about why there isn't a graph. At least then it wouldn't look like something was missing.

Google DNS has been litterally 100% reliable for me (Google Public DNS IPs are 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 in case anyone needs that info - make the changes on your router so it will be global to all clients resolving to the router IP for DNS) - I'd normally suggest that... but you've tried that. So I guess I can't blame the other DNS server. What operating system? What ISP? Are only some addresses not resolving? Is it intermittent? Quote of the day... "...its a small , local ISP and they are about as helpful as a .jpg is to Helen Keller." - Lee Yokum

First, I'd like to see your linear test results. Please disable multithreading and run a few download speed tests, try manually selecting 50 MB, if that's taking too long try 25 MB. Then run some upload tests, again try manual selection. Go for 1.5 MB - 3 MB, judging from your previous results it may take a while but larger sizes provide more reliable results. Try also selecting different servers to experiment with different routes. Gather a little more data and I can make a better assessment and try to help you.

Lots of questions to answer. When I get to a real keyboard I'll try to answer all of them.

Those drop offs are obviously what's affecting your streaming. You're getting decent speeds, they just aren't consistent. First thing I would do is check the cable and all of the fittings, trace back all the way to where the cable company's line comes in. Kinks in the cable, bad splitters, bad barrel connectors can all cause intermittent signal loss. A kink or sharp turn in a coaxial cable messes with the impedance of the cable. ... I've seen many times also where people have stapled the cable to baseboards (to tidy it up) and the staples are so tight it pinches the cable... often overlooked... or where the cable has been fished under the carpet and ONE baseboard tack has managed to prick the cable. A little nail acts like a miniature antenna, feeding air signal into the cable. I've seen things like that cause transmission to cut in and out like that.

You've covered a lot of bases. What are the signal levels? Get them from your modem at 192.168.100.1 and post a screenshot. Have you tried other computers? It does this whether it's wired or wireless, router or direct... displays the same drops?

Alright, sorry it took me a while to check into this. So I have an easy solution... it's already built to handle this. All you have to do is add &testServer=east to the end of that URL. If you go to the speed test mirror page you can get the names for all of the servers from the 'set default' buttons. I didn't specifically design that to work with the auto test... but it does. It's all one large program, so that command flows right over to the auto test. Pretty cool, I didn't even have to do anything.

Thanks mudman... exactly. Do you think I should adjust that?

First, try the multithread speed test ... speedtest.net multithreads, TestMy.net by default is linear. Loading much as a single file transfer would. But I do offer the multithread option. If you get drastically differing results between the two tests it can be an indication that there is an underlying issue. There is a wide range of issues... from improper MTU and RWIN settings to a bad cable modem. Seriously, if you're getting lower results with TestMy.net it can be something as obious as a bad modem... and other speed tests WILL NOT DETECT IT. It DOES affect your performance... if your performance is affected in my tests your performance online is affected. Usually a noticeable difference once you find the issue. (looking at your results, I see you've already used the multithread option and got over 50 Mbps, something is restricting that linear transfer... everyone else that's running correctly is able to get much higher scores, something is limiting you.) Don't be so quick to write off the test. There are many people who have put my methodology under the microscope and consider this to be the most accurate speed test online. (e.g. "I can say with 100% certainty that you will not find a testing methodology more accurate than testmy.net") You really can't compare TestMy.net results to a test that by their own admission makes adjustments to the results. Reference Why Do My Results Differ From Speedtest.net / Ookla Speed Tests? Look closer at that bandwidth meter. There are anomalies with my competitors even under the best circumstances. Realize too that most flash speed tests are multithreading... you shouldn't have to multithread to get your full speed. An ideal connection will perform good either way... mine does, look. Multithread :::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..::: Download Connection Speed:: 108266 Kbps or 108.3 Mbps Download Speed Test Size:: 200.9 MB or 205692 kB or 210628710 bytes Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 13533 kB/s or 13.5 MB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13 Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/qbQ34Jc More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/CA3LE https://testmy.net/compID/69431494760 Test Time:: 2014-02-14 11:21:44 Local Time Location:: Monument, CO US >> Destination:: Global Multithread 1MB Download in 0.08 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~1 Minutes - 1933X faster than 56K This test of exactly 205692 kB took 15.564 seconds to complete Running at 482% of hosts average (Comcast Cable https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable) User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.77 Safari/537.36 [!] Default Linear :::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..::: Download Connection Speed:: 101707 Kbps or 101.7 Mbps Download Speed Test Size:: 200 MB or 204800 kB or 209715200 bytes Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 12713 kB/s or 12.7 MB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13 Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/6hgXTYD TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 47.84 Mbps | Middle Avg 107.75 Mbps | Max 112.43 Mbps | 6% Variance TiP Data Points:: 78.2 Mbps, 110.13 Mbps, 110.54 Mbps, 110.22 Mbps, 112.35 Mbps, 110.94 Mbps, 109.73 Mbps, 108.86 Mbps, 104.93 Mbps, 107.85 Mbps, 112.43 Mbps, 108.24 Mbps, 105.44 Mbps, 106.26 Mbps, 105.66 Mbps, 103.85 Mbps, 102.3 Mbps, 102.02 Mbps, 47.84 Mbps More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/CA3LE https://testmy.net/compID/69431494760 Test Time:: 2014-02-14 11:22:36 Local Time Location:: Monument, CO US >> Destination:: Dallas, TX US 1MB Download in 0.08 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~1 Minutes - 1816X faster than 56K This test of exactly 204800 kB took 16.502 seconds to complete Running at 455% of hosts average (Comcast Cable https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable) User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_9_1) AppleWebKit/537.36 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/32.0.1700.77 Safari/537.36 [!] The default testing method, which has been the core test for TMN since at least 2001... is still the default because I'm not here to make you feel good. I'm not here to overstate your speed or try to give you the best number possible. I'm here to give you the truth and hopefully help you improve performance. The linear test is much more helpful in getting the most from your connection. Tune your connection to perform better on that test and everything will perform better ... the other guys also get paid by the ISPs, whose interest do you think they have at heart? The CEO of speedtest.net is the former CEO of speakeasy.. an ISP (ref wikipedia). I wonder who his buddies might be... lol. TestMy.net is a third party, I'm not affiliated with ISPs. ..... take a minute and think about how much money a large ISP can save by making their users feel like their connection is running better. Then tell me that a third party opinion isn't necessary. Besides, TMN is more than an internet speed test, it helps you discover other issues that other speed tests consistently don't pick up on. It truly reflects your computers performance not just internet performance (if your connection is fast enough). It's helped me position my router to perform the absolute best across my entire home, discover that modems were bad, realize that MTU and RWIN needed to be adjusted, it's even helped me realize that I was working with slow or degraded hard drives... drive swap and TMN results boosted. Because it's my business to test my competition I always compare, WAY more often than not these issues are not noticed, real physical issues that degrade performance... unnoticed. And when you're testing on a server that's down the street (even if it's 300 miles away) not taking into account normal peering and routing, how realistic is that? TMN tests you under real world conditions. Like I said, I'm not here to sugar coat your speed. I just hold up a mirror. ... there is so much more but I've already written more than most will read. If I've got you thinking... take the time to browse around TestMy.net, read what I've written... read what others have written too. Understand how it works then if you want to put it under the microscope, I invite you. You'll quickly realize that I've done my homework and I'm really here only to try and help consumers get the most. I've developed what has become TestMy.net for 18 years, if you like it please take 2 seconds to share it with a friend. let us know what OS you're running and your network configuration and we'll try to help you improve your score.

Let me look into this and get back to you... I'll make sure I build you a solution.

Try an alternate browser and let me know how it does. Try Chrome.

If you're having an issue like that it's not because of any changes to the program. Last major release was in late September and it's been very stable. I often release then wait for bugs to surface... out of my last 5 million visitors I've had only a couple of bugs reported. So I really think this is an issue localized to your phone or network. I'm going to move your topic over to the help section if that's okay with you...

forgot to mention. I fixed your issue. Sphnix wasn't running.. easy fix. Thanks for the heads up, that was effecting the forum search engine too.

Yeah, I am gearing up. No ETA and I'm not doing the next updates incrementally. There will be a few things that will be updated and released as soon as they're available but for the most part my next version will hit all at once. Visitors will have the choice to keep using Version 13 if they're more comfortable with that. Seems that I have a segment of visitors that really don't like major changes. Actually, Pgoodwin1 if my memory serves me correctly you first started emailing me because you weren't a fan going from v12 to v13. ... but I'd bet money that you see the value in v13 now and use it exclusively. Same may happen going to the next version if you're reluctant to change. I've realized over the years that I can't make 100% of people happy... but I still try. My aim in the next release is to make it as easy as possible for the common person (non-computer-geek) to use and fully understand what this site does. When I first started building the TMN speed test I built it for myself and really didn't care if other people understood it. I usually assume that you have a certain level of computer and bandwidth knowledge but I really want the other 95% to get it. I'll also be adding advanced features but hopefully in a way that won't overwhelm people... it will only be overwhelming if you want it to be. I have my work cut out for my on all fronts. But once the fire is lit... like mudmanc4 said... the work is done before I realize that I did anything. Hopefully you'll all like the end result.

I ran TraceMy for a while and got the info I need to build the real version. Thanks to the people that helped me test that. I'm shooting to have TraceMy as an addition to version 14... coming soon. Thanks for the input on TiP, I just wish I would have made it years earlier. Provides such detail... makes diagnosis much easier. Especially would have been handy when I was a cable tech working on people's internet all day.

there we go... fixed. Table was crashed. Please lookout for other database issues. I'm having my bot go through now and repair everything though so it shouldn't be an issue. -D give it a minute...

It's still being logged, but maybe not since yesterday. I had mySQL crash hard on me yesterday (300+ days up without an issue too) and I'm still going over my databases. Please bear with me, you can still see that information when you test... it's just not being logged right now. Thanks for bringing that to my attention, I'm on it. -D

I noticed that just now in Safari... flash was slept. I had never seen that before. But I clicked the youtube video and it started right up. I agree about Mavericks, it's been displaying weird issues. Only on the laptop though. I'm about to reboot because my menu went black. My computer also rebooted for no good reason and I'm fairly certain that it's Mavericks issue... not a hardware error. I have faith that they'll resolve the issues quickly, if not and it becomes an issue I'll roll back too.

$32K! Dude, personally if I needed that much power... I'd get a loaded Mac Pro... and raid some Thunderbolt drives. And if that didn't get it done... I'd get two or three of them and still come in under $32K. That's like the size of a medium drink from McDonalds. You can daisy chain them... (up to 36 devices) and have a 20 GB/s link between the machines. Mac is superior in my opinion. Wouldn't you love a more elegant machine... It even knows to turn the lights on the ports when it detects that you've turned it... it senses that you're trying to to plug something in and lights the way. The design is beautiful. It was beyond what I need right now. The way that I'd want to get it... Minus $3600 without the display... For the people out there with super heavy computing tasks where time is money. Like video engineers... that makes sense. Not too many applications are taking advantage of the GPU aspect yet, final cut pro and some other high end software are doing it. Sure, you can build a single PC machine that would be more far more powerful but can you do it with this kind of footprint? Can you do it this quietly? (only 12dB) In my opinion, the Late 2013 Mac Pro is a work of art in every aspect. You'd have to be insane to spend $32K on a PC.