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Location detection by your IP address is only about 85% accurate. In the future I'll allow location refinement, right now I wouldn't worry about it. Your results will be calculated the same either way, you'll just be compared to people in your adjacent city. On mobile this issue is much more noticeable. Where sometimes you can be assigned an IP in one city... and travel with that same IP for a while. GPS location refinement will fix those issues but I have a lot on my plate and have no ETA on that. Mine says "Monument CO" -- my address is actually in Colorado Springs... but really I'm much closer to Monument. So it's wrong but not totally. Personally I'd rather be compared to people in Monument because it's closer to where I really am. While I'm thinking about it... I'm going to manually update my IP tables database. It may correct the detection for you... it may not. But don't worry too much about it, it's generally accurate and doesn't affect the outcome of your speed test.

Thanks!

Man, you work on a lot of printers. Sorry, I don't know.. I just wanted to say that.

Hey, glad to see you finally post. Most people that signup don't participate in my forums... it's cool though, people just wanna test their speed. So, I have an LTE connection that can vary from a couple Mbps to over 50 Mbps. If you look at my stats and filter them right you can see my best on my iPhone on Verizon. When I'm getting 8 Mbps it still surfs great but when I'm able to pull 40+ page response is almost instant, the difference is great. On my test bench when I develop my speed tests I purposly limit my connection varing levels to check accuracy. I've surfed the web and ran at every imaginable speed... it does make a difference, even for simple browsing.

TraceMy isn't really doing a test, it's a logged traceroute... it's just conducted regularly. TraceMy is activated as soon as you hit any page outside of the forum (currently tracing only registered users... only beta testers and a handful of others have been granted access to see the data). It's currently only running on my main server but this will expand soon. I'm working on to make this do much more... the reason I haven't fully released it is because, first, I'm not done. Second, I'm still trying to understand what I've built. So far what I'm gathering is that you're not looking for hops that just have long response here and there... you're looking for hops that continually have longer response times. Especially should be noted if the hop responds that way more than three consecutive times. There really is no frequency to testing. You're tested as soon as the queue runs. It queues over and over and is based on your activity on TestMy.net. Every page load (again, outside of the forum) resets your time to 2 minutes, if you stop interacting with the site... it stops interacting with you. For that two minutes you'll be traced over and over as you reach your place in line. No set time, it just runs when it's available. This is done server-side and all you need to do to activate it is open TestMy.net. It's silent and you can surf the site as you normally would, that side of the program actually has nothing to do with what you see on your screen. (it's pretty nifty) What I'm finding is that just because you're displaying horrible speeds... doesn't mean that it's going to show in the trace. Also, just because a hop responds slow... doesn't mean that your speeds will be degraded. Check this out... here's an example using my own connection. I obviously have a fast connection at home, it runs awesome... all the time. Now look at the trace results about 2 minutes before my 12:35p test. (hop 9 for me is the end of trace by the way but is not my actual IP...) Yeah, that had a long response... if there was any issue during that time it wasn't noticeable to me. I wasn't testing at that exact moment so who knows, it may have resulted in a little bobble. Obviously you'd like to see nice even response times but for a hop to respond like that here and there... no worries, it happens. Some routers de-prioritize ICMP traffic so it's normal in some situations to see spikes here and there. But if a hop is continually doing that, especially in succession... there is most likely something going on with the hop. Before I release it publicly I'll do a full writeup and I'll cite logged examples displaying what the real problems look like. Here's a little example I randomly pulled (username sistem) of what MAY be an issue. See the top blue line, that's hop 7 of 8. It often responds slower than the final hop, and does it consecutively. It also seems that when that happens it sometimes causes the final hop to respond slower.... Now look at this members result around the same time... dropped to half of his average. Going back further in his results I find that when he has a lower than average result... it's often accompanied by slower than average response on those hops. This is not always the case. But if you if you experience slower than average speeds then look to your TraceMy results it can help determine what part of the route is possibly at fault. Now, looking at your TraceMy.net results... I don't see anything alarming or stand out. Researching the times when you display slower results shows very normal traces. Sure there are spikes, but they don't correlate with those times... and they don't consecutively respond bad. Like I said, just because there's an issue with a hop/router doesn't mean that it's going to respond bad and vice versa. But when you start to see regular patterns, it can be a good indication. ... as soon as I understand what I've built better and can put it all into words I will. I'll also tell the program to look for the known patterns I'm finding and alert the user to a possible issue. I'm also developing more in depth analysis of the route... realize that I only have a couple of days of programming time invested in that so far. Right now it's in a gathering phase so... again... I can understand what I've built. (gee, you think that's enough ellipsis for one post, lol... ... ...)

Haven't heard of BT SFI yet... let us know how it goes. Don't let them rip you off!

Hi Ellie, I didn't see anything out of the ordinary... I recommend registering on TMN, then contact mudmanc4 (his profile - the topic you're talking about). He's a regular and usually visits TMN every day so I bet he'll respond quickly. You can also try posting to that topic after you signup... that will help others in the future. I looked it over and you have a bunch of legit Google plugins and addons. I've seen most of them and they're associated with things like google voice and video chat. I researched a bunch I was unaware of and came up with clean services... If you feel like you're being logged you might want to sniff your outgoing traffic. Chances are if someone has done that the program will be sending the information off somewhere (unless of course you have someone who has direct access to the computer... in which case, change your passwords and make new friends if you can't trust them, lol). What you can do is get a program like Little Snitch or something similar that alerts you every time your computer reaches out. You'll be bugged by many legit services... whitelist them and build up a known list of good guys. Then, if something like that tries to communicate out... YOU GOT THEM! You can take the IP to the authorities, they'll know what to do. Although, anyone smart enough will have intermediate proxies between you and them... the proxy machines often don't have anything to do with the snoop / attacker... which can literally make it impossible to find them. Good luck... I hope that you're just being paranoid and nobody is actually logging you. And HEY! Don't forget to test your Internet speed, that's what TestMy.net is all about. Kind Regards, - Damon - TestMy.net

All you need to do is ask. The cap is in place to stop abuse. I don't mind how much you use as long as you're legitimately testing. What I have a problem with is when people do things to (automatically) refresh the test every few seconds. ... which gets you banned but in case I don't catch it the cap is in place to avoid excess bandwidth. If you saw my bandwidth bills you'd understand why I take precautions. As long as you're legitimately using my service... use as much as you need to get the job done. It takes bandwidth to test bandwidth. I doubled your cap, let me know if you need more. This is done on an IP basis not username basis, if you encounter caps again, just let me know. I also took the liberty in granting your account access to TraceMy.net, you must be logged in under maassflange to access this. You'll notice TraceMy.net stuff in various areas of TestMy.net. During the beta enjoy an ad free TMN as well. I should be refining and releasing TraceMy.net soon, you're one of a handful of people with early access. I think it will prove to be a powerful resource when I'm done. Tell your friends, kind regards, - Damon - TestMy.net

Hi Dave, Check out https://testmy.net/make-a-speed-test ... I'd love to get you setup. Email me back when you're ready. - Damon - TestMy.net

Hi Teresa, Don't be frustrated, I'll try to help you. How far away from your router are you? If you connect directly to the router does your connection run fine? Have you tried changing the channel in the router administration? Admin for your router is usually found at http://192.168.1.1 (username:password vary by brand .. usually something like admin:admin admin:1234 - generic stuff like that. If you can't get in, let me know your router brand/model and I can help with the password) -- then navigate to the wireless settings and look for channels. When you suspect interference try switching to a channel a few numbers away from the one that's currently selected. So if you're on channel 7... maybe try 11 or 4. Sometimes other electronics can interfere with the signal and a simple change of the channel can clear things up. Give it a try. After changing the channel retest your speed using TMN - save time... only a download speed test is necessary for this. Select a test size that gives you a good 10 seconds of test time. Between changes retest using the same size and leave your computer in the same location. The idea is to try not to change any other variables except the channel. That will help you quickly find what works best for your situation. The best channel for you isn't the same as what's best for me. It depends on local signal interference. Let me know if that helps, happy testing... - Damon - TestMy.net Also, where is your router placed? Is it near any other electronics? Imagine that your electronics have a bubble of energy around them. Anything transmitting or receiving wireless needs to be away from that bubble. They don't even need to be transmitting themselves. Many common devices emit radio waves. For example, your microwave... or anything with an electric motor. Move your router away from everything electronic. Also avoid router placement in the corner of your home, most routers use omnidirectional antenna, which means that the power is distributed in 360 degrees. If you have it sitting in the corner of the house you're only using 90 degrees... you're wasting 270 degrees of its power, shooting 3 times more power in the directions you don't need it. See what I'm saying. --- try to place central in the home. One thing to think about, does your house have a chimney? If it does, you need to take that into account as well. It needs to be away from that or you'll cause a dead / lame area no just behind the chimney but radiating at angles away from the opposite side of where the router is placed... the degree of those angles depends on how close the router is to the brick. If it's right up on the brick, you're going to have more pronounced problems over a wider area. If it's a couple of feet away... it won't be as noticeable... a few more feet back and "what issue?" Here's a really good guide that may help in router placement wireless fung shui. - Damon

I noticed that Tracy in KY (only a few hours from you) who's also routed through TWC is having drops during the same hours as you. You might want to look at this topic https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/31124-hi-i-am-tracy-b-from-frankfort-ky/. His issue is obviously way worse than yours but may be related. -D

Hey again Tracy, First, they're detected as CenturyLink because they must lease lines from them... On to your issue. Pgoodwin1 who has TWC in OH (only like 3 hours from you) is having the same sort of issue... during the same hours. https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/30910-problems-on-dallas-server/?p=341150 -- but not nearly as pronounced. If they've already admitted peering issues to you, then I'd bet that's still the issue. It's actually really rare for them to admit that, usually they try to blame everyone else. I bet the person that told you that wasn't really supposed to share that shortcoming with customers. When I see regular drops like that it makes me question a couple of things. First, routing congestion. Second, programs you may have on schedules. For instance, some people put their torrents on a schedule... or have programs that sync large amounts of data over the net. Makes me wonder if something else on your network is sucking up your bandwidth during those hours. But I don't think that's the case with your connection. I think that your ISP, somewhere along the way, doesn't have enough bandwidth to meet the demand. They probably gave you a timeline because that's when they expected to get more feeds to meet demand. Obviously they didn't meet the goal or they were talking out their a$$. Another thing that happens sometimes, a trunk line is cut or attacked forcing the ISP to reroute traffic to other main lines. Which can push their capacity especially during peak hours (the exact times you're having issues). Since I've been getting messages from others on TWC (your not on TWC but you stated that you're routed through them), I'd bet it's a routing issue that's beyond your control. You just have a really extreme case. You are seriously getting 1-2% of your best speed during the bad times... that's ridiculously horrible. I would be pissed and would have only given them 48 hours to resolve it before I'd expect a full month for free. .... they owe you that much! I hope that your problems are resolved soon I wish there was more that I can do. Personally, I'd show them my findings (from TMN) and demand a refund until they can deliver what I'm paying for. If they tell you that it's going to take weeks to fix, well then you should get a free month for having to deal with the BS. If they aren't willing to play ball, hopefully you have more choices than the 1.5Mbps DSL (lame). ...just leave them and don't look back. You have Comcast in Frankfort, KY... right? Comcast seems to know what's up in all their markets, they might be your best bet. Good luck. If you have resolution please respond to this topic and let us know. My visitors and I love hearing about resolved issues.

I'm still working to understand TraceMy.net's results. I don't think an address has to have bad response time to slow you down. So until I fully understand what I built and can explain my findings... take those results with a grain of salt. Right now it's only tracing to my main server in Dallas but when complete it will utilize my entire network. CDN may perform better for you because the transaction is relayed to a server closer to you. Look at the network map. For some people this performs better... others will get better performance directly to TMN servers. Here's my own result at about 8:30 the other night... I test just fine during those hours... but I am slightly slower than my best. I think that Time Warner has some routes that are congested during peak hours in your area. Other servers, like testing to CDN for instance, will take different routes... possibly bypassing the congestion. My goal is to make TraceMy.net detect and idetify those problem areas... and give you the ammunition you need to complain to your ISP.

Hi Tracy, I wanted to welcome you to TestMy.net. Looking at the graph your issue looks very pronounced. I'll take the time to look into your results deeper and respond tomorrow, I'm heading to bed soon. Also sounds like you were hitting the cap... I doubled your testing cap. I also gave your account access to TraceMy.net a new area to TMN I'm developing. Another thing, during the beta period you'll notice TMN is ad free while you're logged in. For anyone interested in joining the beta, just visit TMN Beta for more information. ttyl

Thanks for the feedback. I'm glad I didn't get the ASUS router. Seriously though, don't let that reflect on all their products. When I ordered mine there was no reviews on either because nobody could buy them yet. But I had read reviews on previous routers they have released and they all state the same issues you do. Get the Nighthawk. It has none of those issues. I just transferred > 100 GB of data across my network, to the touch the router is maybe 10 degrees hotter than ambient. It's warm, nowhere near hot. I do some pretty hardcore stuff across my network. It's my business to know a good router. The R7000 is the sickest wifi router I've ever used. Plug it in and it does it's job... I've had netgear routers in the past that have had hundreds of days of uptime. Router rebooting on you, eff that! lol. For me, I need 100% uptime. Glad I didn't risk it with ASUS. Back to the Nighthawk. I like the white lights, I put mine in my bedroom and the lights don't bother me at night. It actually makes a nice night light. I also love the external hi-gain antenna. One negative, I think they should have a USB 3.0 on the back as well as the front, but that's minor. It's also BIG but when you factor in what it does and how well it does it... it makes sense. Performance is over 2x better than I was getting on a brand new linksys AC 1750. I only tested AC on my mac mini which has USB 2.0 (limiting the adapter to 480 Mbps) using Amped Wireless ACA1 I see a stable 30 MB/s+ (240 Mbps+) using the built in wireless 20-30 MB/s (160-240 Mbps+) not as steady but still very nice. With the linksys AC1750 that I tested while I waited for the Nighthawk I was only getting 11-16 MB/s (88-128 Mbps) under the exact same conditions. The flow of data on the nighthawk is also nearly flat... the linksys was going up and down, fluctuating second by second. You probably won't ever meet netgear's tech support... every netgear router I've ever owned since the 90's... I still own. And they all still work. I can't bear to part with them.

I never even try to tweak my iPhone... here's the best I've seen. On my new iPhone5s Model A1533 Here's a result on the same connection a couple weeks earlier with my iPhone5 Model A1429 Must be the Netgear Nighthawk that's boosting the performance because before I got that I was pretty much maxing out at around 30 Mbps. Here's some discussion on the Netgear Nighthawk. But seriously, even 20 Mbps in your palm. You can't complain. That would have made my brain melt 15 years ago.

I think they gave it away for free because they wanted to get iBooks on everyones computer... and other software that eventually puts money in Apple's pocket. It only seems free, lol. It's cool though, I upgraded. Couldn't update Randi's macbook, apparently you have to have an aluminum (I think 2009 or later) macbook. She has a 2006. I updated all my other computers and everything has been running great. Honestly they were already running great but things do seem a bit smoother. My Mac mini, which was still on 10.7 was much more noticeable than my iMac on 10.8. Network performance on both is smoother than before. One thing I hate, the activity monitor... I beef is with the network tab. There is far less detail in the graph and it seems to not count data sometimes. It's annoying because I use it a lot, guess I'll have to get something 3rd party or make something myself. All and all, it's good. Don't be afraid to update your software. How the hell do you think you got the software you love right now? You didn't get it by sticking to Windows 3.11 and never updating. If you don't update... you'll only get left behind. iOS7 is awesome. I updated right away and didn't regret it. It has subtle beauty that alone make it worth the update. e.g. if you have an iPhone5 or better when you move the phone in your hand the background moves but the tiles float... a weird and subtle effect. There are several examples... update and see. I had a couple of bugs but I think they were resolved in 7.0.2 ... now on 7.0.3. e.g. txt messages got stuck sending... had to do a hard reset (holding power and home button till it resets) to fix. I've also had my browser crash a handful of times. But I'm really hard on it, often running 10-20 tabs at a time. Both Chrome and Safari have crashed like that.

Very nice... pretty much 150/15 - I've been watching Ziggo for a while, their users seem to get very respectable speeds... even when testing all the way across the Atlantic. Post up your speeds multithreadding to some servers outside of NL... also try without multithread with the various mirrors. You've shown that you can max that line out in your own neighborhood, now expand that out to the world. Run a multithread test with all of the servers selected... let's see what your world speed is. Here's mine... This is a select all... remember, if you want to select your own size on the multithread test... select the servers you want, click save then navigate to the download test page and select the size as you normally would. I'll make this easier by version 14. Obviously TMN has more servers in the US and I'm in Colorado, so to be fair this is the same test utilizing only Amsterdam and Singapore. Focused on a nearby server... I'm quotted at 105 Mbps. Here's using the classic linear test... very similar results which is what you want. Classic has higher resolution details. And you can see I'm actually bursting at speeds higher than I pay for. To share your results like this just click the share tab and then click "forum code" ... then paste it here. I just moved to Colorado Springs (actually closer to Monument CO) and Comcast has really been performing. Just like with Cox Communications in Phoenix AZ ... if you're in the area, you have to be stupid, misinformed or locked into a contract to have anyone else for Internet. ... CenturyLink is headquartered is in Denver, I would have thought they'd have more fiber out here, best they could get to my house... 40 Mbps. HAHAHA, in my opinion that's not even competition to Comcast's offering.

Hi Randy, welcome to TestMy.net. It shouldn't slow you down but that depends on a few things. How far away is the computer from the router? What kind of router and adapter? Personally, I always try to have my main desktop hooked up with ethernet directly to the router. I use wifi for everything else. If I connect my office computer to my wifi I still get a nice smooth connection. But I get better performance within my home network using ethernet. No doubt because my router is on the opposite side of the house, my office is in the corner of the house so it wasn't ideal for the wifi. I go to extremes to get the best possible connection... Even if it was in the same room it would be even more reason to wire it up directly. Wireless is catching up but then I'd expect 10G to become standard in the future so ethernet will always be better. Direct connection is always best. Best way to tell if you're losing quality... get scientific. Run a control test using TestMy.net, directly connected to the modem. Then do the same exact test connected to ethernet... then do the same test again on wifi. Maybe run three of each and average. You can separate the results with identifiers, found in a drop down menu on the homepage and test pages. Then you can filter your results using the drop down menu below the graph.. Experimentation will lead you to the fastest setup... I recently moved and rebuilt my entire home network. TMN made my performance instantly apparent and caused me to re-configure my network more optimally. I was able to discover interference, simple channel change on the router dramatically improved wireless. I was also able to see degradation due to a bad cat-5 connector and wall plate that was improperly installed. Testing and retesting ... tweaking this and that until I could get the numbers as close as I could to the numbers I read directly off the modem. End result, my network is faster and smoother than it would have been if I just blindly installed everything. ... experiment. That's what this site is all about.

I was looking at the Asus RT-AC68U too. I've always loved ASUS in general but their networking gear seemed to have mixed reviews. What do you think about the software on the router? I assume the hardware is the same as my Netgear AC-1900 R7000 Nighthawk... at least the chips are the same. They were both released at the same time... and both were available on preorder a month before released (imo that shows how exciting this hardware is). I made my choice because of software... Netgear has always been solid for me and they've been at it as far back as I can remember, so I stuck with them. No doubt ASUS has great hardware but I think they're still fairly new to networking so I didn't want to risk it. So let me know what you think of the administrative controls... screenshots would be awesome.

iPhone 5s on Comcast :::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..::: Download Connection Speed:: 62509 Kbps or 62.5 Mbps Download Speed Test Size:: 50 MB or 51200 kB or 52428800 bytes Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 7814 kB/s or 7.8 MB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13 Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/VjtwHWg TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 32.77 Mbps | Middle Avg 67.9 Mbps | Max 76.26 Mbps | 29% Variance TiP Data Points:: 33.55 Mbps, 47.13 Mbps, 59.17 Mbps, 67.05 Mbps, 65.99 Mbps, 67.89 Mbps, 72.04 Mbps, 73.44 Mbps, 70.03 Mbps, 71.36 Mbps, 71.9 Mbps, 70.16 Mbps, 68.02 Mbps, 68.76 Mbps, 72.45 Mbps, 63.44 Mbps, 69.14 Mbps, 76.26 Mbps, 32.77 Mbps More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/CA3LE https://testmy.net/compID/69431494760 Test Time:: 2013-10-26 13:05:58 Local Time Location:: Monument, CO US >> Destination:: San Jose, CA US 1MB Download in 0.13 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~2 Minutes - 1116X faster than 56K This test of exactly 51200 kB took 6.715 seconds to complete Running at 299% of hosts average (Comcast Cable https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable) User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/30.0.1599.16 Mobile/11B511 Safari/8536.25 [!] Multithread is currently only available on the download test. I'm working on doing the same with the upload test.

I just got one of those too. Best router I've worked with. I had the Linksys AC 1750 for about a week before (got it temporarily while I waited for my Nighthawk)... the Nighthawk is twice the router than Linksys' best offering right now. The range is amazing, I was having horrible signal on my patio with every other router I tried... Nighthawk (R7000) has been flawless. Good choice! Best router out right now in my opinion... http://www.netgear.com/home/products/wirelessrouters/ultimate-performance/R7000.aspx#

I'd like to personally help everyone. But if I did I would never have time to build my tools answer emails and update things on TMN. I get messages like this nearly every day. Please, don't be shy! Post here in the TestMy.net forum under HELP! or search... your question may already be answered. Hi Shamshodin, Please direct questions like this to the TestMy.net forum. You can get more help there and your topic may help others in the future. - Hope you get the help you need and speed up your Internet, - Damon - TestMy.net

Hi Andrew, I like your spam address. -- you could have given me your real address, I don't spam and have a strict privacy policy. I noticed the email address and laughed a little. Let me get to your question. The information is randomly generated on the fly for each and every test... so nothing is really being downloaded or uploaded when you run a TMN speed test, sounds like you know that much. So, what happens to the random information. Nothing... as long as your browser listens to what I tell it to do. It's ordered to not cache the data. After it's loaded and you're thrown to the results page the information is removed from memory. I don't want to fill up your hard drive (or my own... I test more than anyone) with a bunch of waste... so I try my hardest to make sure that nothing is cached. Please keep visiting and help me spread the word! Happy Testing! - Damon - TestMy.net

Hi Albert, All you need to do is run tests from your network. You must own the IP blocks you test from. If you lease from a 3rd party it will be recorded in their name. Everything is automated and built by the TestMy.net program based on the information collected by previous tests. A couple ways you can tell what I've detected from your IP is... Go to the TestMy.net homepage, look under the main menu > Database > Your Detected Info Go to https://testmy.net/iptools Go to https://testmy.net/database My IP databases come from Maxmind, if you feel that a correction needs to be made submit to http://www.maxmind.com/en/correction - if a correction is made it will carry over to TMN. But will only affect new results after the update. Hope this helps, thank you for your patronage. Feel free to direct further questions directly to me. - Damon - TestMy.net Hey Shawn, I made edits to your database entry. Your logo with and a link to your site is now provided on Colocation America's stats page on TMN. Pretty sure this is what you're after. - Kind Regards, - Damon - TestMy.net Note: If you have a listing that is already showing up in the hoststats database and would like to add your company logo, edit the name displayed, add links to your website / forum / wiki / blog or any other edits simply contact me with the appropriate information and I'll add the information to my database. I may add wikipedia style editing in the future.