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Wow... the new Macbook Pro rocks. This is on AC wireless, to my Netgear Nighthawk AC 1900 using Comcast 105 Mbps. Using Safari. Someone was recently emailing me about Safari. They said they were getting lower readings on their Macbook pro, only in Safari. Well, I'm testing under the same conditions... same computer, same browser. I think you have something else causing an issue because on my network, it's screaming fast. Click the image and you'll see that one is a classic download test accompanied by a multithread speed test. While I'm on the subject of speed, look at the PCIe SSD performance... (testing with Blackmagic Disk Speed Test - by the way, my own write test of a 10GB disk image creation performed at a low of 780 MB/s and high of 988 MB/s so blackmagic seems to be a good disk speed test on Mac) The late 2013 Macbook is ridiculous. I have the 15 inch, fully upgraded with 1 TB SSD. Don't even get me started about the display. Because of pixel doubling you can see that my screenshots are huge... I've been starting to notice that my iMac is slowing me down so I needed to upgrade. But I wanted something portable. I can output this to my iMac's display when I want to and get a nicer work space for the type of stuff I do and at the same time take full advantage of the second discrete graphics card... well to truly take advantage of it I'd need a 4k monitor but I'm waiting till 4k monitors are much cheaper. It would be really nice but when the display costs more than the computer... loses it's appeal. The 4k resolution is at a lower refresh rate too. 60 Hz 4k would be nice Apple. I think I need to replace my iMac's SSD. I was getting 500 MB/s read and write at first but I've used it a lot... they degrade over time. This is a 2011 model I bought in April. With only 256 GB Corsair Performance Pro SSD Don't get me wrong, my iMac is still very fast. But you guys know me... I have a need for speed. It's kinda what I do... hence the website. Anyone looking to upgrade to a laptop that can put badass desktop computers to shame should be looking at the new macbook line. Pair it with a solid network and you can't go wrong. I'll be able to blaze through my routine and get two or three times the work done. You can't upgrade the memory later, so make sure that you get what you'll need up front... but speaking of SSD degradation. The SSD is a discrete component according to my research... so that's good, although Apple says it's "not a user serviceable part" ... it is, I change "non user serviceable parts" all the time and I would bet that there will be third party drives released. So when it degrades, which it will... it's replaceable. ... 2000 MB/s SSD performance may be possible with aftermarket PCIe SSD. They run PCIexpress 2.0, I believe it's 4 lanes. So there is headroom there for improvement. Time will tell. Funny, the girl at Apple told me, "it's soldered on the board..." -- probably just wanted me to spring for the more expensive one. Bitch. Oh well, I'll put it to go use. All I know is that I'll be able to work faster and more conveniently now. Thanks again Apple. (killer battery life too, especially for an core i7. Past hour, 9% used.)

Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year!

Thanks for the suggestions. I'll keep them in mind for my next version.

I'm about to start another 3 month programming session. I'll really try to make it a point to get to this. I want it too.

By the way, I forgot to mention the share on the results page. For iPad, because there is no flash the copy to clipboard feature doesn't work. That's actually done through a flash hack. It only appears if flash is detected... otherwise a special version of that tab appears that still gives you share options, just not copy to clipboard. Here's on my iPhone just now... you can still copy the image URL, details URL or details and share on twitter and facebook. You just can't copy to your clipboard with a single click like you can on desktops with Adobe Flash enabled. ... that hack shows you the insecurities of flash, part of the reason Apple doesn't allow it in iOS and why others are phasing it out. I'm doing that for a legit reason but it can be illegitimately used just as easy. ... too bad it's the only way I know how to put something on your clipboard. If anyone knows of another way I'd love to hear from you.

Are you sure? I didn't think there was an option to upload an image for sig.. I thought you had to link it from a source. Then again, I rarely look at that. I'll try it on my computer later, I'm on my iphone. By the way, I'll be updating IPB as well as a ton of other stuff in January so we'll be picking up a bunch of new stuff. January through March I'll be programming heavy so the whole site will get new stuff. So be on the lookout for new stuff everywhere on TMN.

Hey paladin! Good to see you! I know that people come and go but you're a staple here. Some were getting worried but I knew you were still kickin' ... I check your test results every so often. I also see you logged in sometimes. -- I'm glad that you quit looking for speed test sites after you found the best. The truth is, this site has been around so long that we really do have some members quite literally dying off. Some we've confirmed by family members contacting us... others are a mystery. Just feel good knowing that people care enough about you to worry when they don't see you. You're just a popular guy.

Send me the DNS addresses you're using so I can see myself. Personally, I like Google's DNS 8.8.8.8 and 8.8.4.4 -- you should give that a try. DNS isn't going to help you in gaming, as I'm sure that addresses are directly addressed vs resolved with a name server. (using an IP instead of blah.domain.crap) -- your upload also seems sufficient, unless you're hosting the game you shouldn't use more than 25 kB/s (upstream) with most games (~200 Kbps)… and that number is pretty high, many I've seen don't even use 5-10 kB/s. Are you gaming on a system or on your PC? Are you connecting with wifi? Give me a little more information, I think you have sufficient bandwidth for some quality gaming… and I'll try to help you get rid of that lag. If you can, get a list of game server addresses you use. Then ping them, so we can do a before and after comparison. General instructions added below... To ping a host... Windows Start > Run > type CMD [enter] > from the command prompt type ping google.com and/or ping testmy.net Linux / Mac Under Applications/Utilities open 'Terminal' > type ping google.com and/or ping testmy.net Paste those results here.

What package do you have with Wide Open West? How does the test load in your browser? Are you using any proxy or caching software? … looking at other results from their users and I'm not seeing anyone else with results like that. Maybe something locally, I highly doubt that you pulled the data that fast. When you did a multithread test around the same time you pulled about 14.5 Mbps. Something locally on your machine is causing an issue. If you think of what it is let me know so I can use that information to make the test better.

Note this RG6 connector. see how the white inner insulation is nearly flush with the metal base. If it's pushed down and there is a bowl in the bottom... the signal echos off the walls within the connector. Fittings like that need to be adjusted or changed. Sometimes you can just firming grab and push it into better alignment... but if you have the ability and tools, put new compression fittings on. You also want the copper core to rise up above the rim by 2-3 pennies width. Too long... issues.. too short... issues. I'd trim that a little longer myself... so many bad examples on google images If you have cables like that.. throw them out. Good for antenna, bad for cable systems.

0 dB is good.. between -5 and 5 for the downstream power level is what you want. Your levels look okay but a bad splitter, loose connection or bad barrel connector can all appear okay and still have intermittent issues. I'd try switching out, by passing and checking connections leading from the side of the house to the modem. Also look for sharp turns in your coax... if it bends too sharp it can cause the signal to actually echo within the cable. Check behind any wallplates. Look for marred connections and sharp turns. Often electritions who prewire don't know sh!t about networking or coax... I've seen a lot of ugly stuff behind wallplates that HAD to be switched out. The wallplate barrel connections go bad... switch them with quality (no gold, gold is a great conductor.. so good that over air signals can bleed in... gold looks pretty but it's not good in a cable system application) connections while you're in there. They can oxidize and cause issues, most people don't think of those things... All things I'd check for. Basically, make sure that the problem isn't between the modem and the dmark (where the cable company connects into your house). If the problem is inside, they're going to charge you. If they step foot inside in some cases... they charge you. Make sure that when the tech leaves your house you are on the same page about the work done and get it in writing. Trust me.

A few of you have mentioned recently that you feel that the upload test is off. You were right. I think that an apache or php update caused some issues that I was unaware of. I had to physically pull out a stop watch to be 100% sure. I whipped up a little magic and fixed it. I've updated all of the official mirrors and will release an update tomorrow for all of you private and public hosts out there. Really sorry, my last major build everything was tested and accurate but sometimes backend server software changes can effect things. Seems something is post processing the upload form data... causing a delayed transaction. More apparent at higher values. I programmed around it, changing my methods slightly. Stop watch from exact start to finish now lines up with the result details tab as it should. You should be happy to notice that the upload test no longer has that delay and processes much faster... yielding the accurate result.

It's showing the last 100 results from the detected provider and the test type selected. I'll try to make it easier to understand in the next versions. Seems like that confuses people sometimes. You see, there isn't an instruction book for what I do... I make this stuff up as I go. lol... and use your feedback to refine it.

They lock you out of the modem? So you're not able to see http://192.168.100.1? If they block that, that's BS. It's YOUR modem, right? Yes, low signal will definitely effect performance. There's actually a happy medium. Too high and it can sometimes have worse effects. Downstream Signal to Noise Ratio (SNR) should be lower than 30 dB Downstream power level should be between -15 and 15 dB but -8 to 8 dB is optimal Upstream SNR anything above 29 dB is good Upstream power should be below 55 dB - lower numbers are better. Keep in mind that splitters drop the signal. If you have too much power, add a splitter.. dropping the levels will help in some cases. 2 way will drop 3.5 dB ... three way internally is two two way splitters. One leg drops 3.5 the other two drop 7... 4 way is three two way splitters. Thus dropping 7db on all legs. Not enough power? Amps can help but they can also hurt if not done properly. Make sure that it passes 1000+ MHz, same with splitters... If your amp is before the split right now.. try putting the splitter after the amp. And vice verse... sometimes switching that configuration can make a world of difference. good luck!

Those are recently logged results from your provider. There are links below that which allow you to show your own graph if you'd like.

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