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You just have to want to try new stuff... it's as harmless as using the site normally. ... I have something beta out right now. I see you voted above. I've added you to the beta users. Read the topic at https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/30918-tracemynet/ (hint: if you're not a beta user, the password is beta) During the beta period enjoy the additional features that others don't have yet. Also enjoy an ad free TMN experience.

what package do you subscribe to?

Have you tried the multithread speed test -- it might help defeat whatever is cache accelerating your result? Hughes has some kind of proxy accelerator I think. I have a bunch of things in place to avoid this but nothing is impossible. If they have a system in place that specifically ignores some of my commands then they could defeat my cache prevention. I need to either get with someone that has their service and use it for development or talk with Hughes about it. ... is there acceleration software they gave you that you can turn off or can you bypass their proxy? ... note to others, this is a very uncommon situation. ... I've never been able to get my hands on a satellite connection for my development. But many satellite users over the years have sworn by TestMy.net ... I think I just need to get my hands on a satellite and see for myself...

Hey, if you buy a quality PC.. it will probably last. I'm not doggin' the hardware... I'm talking about the OS. There are plenty of awesome PCs out there... like totally insane, make people jealous computers that can blow away any Apple computer... it's just too bad you can't put OSX on them.

... I'm such an MS hater these days. But seriously... am I wrong? It's like they're trying to get in the way of their own success anymore. My father-in-law just got a Levono Win8 craptop. Nice specs, touchscreen - i7... blah blah blah ...I couldn't even get it to do anything. Wouldn't connect to my wifi I assume because it wasn't registered but to register you needed the wifi. Seriously MS, do you have marbles for brains? It had a telephone registration but I looked at him and said, "Come on dude! Just trust me and get a Mac! You'd get it, open the box and be ready to rock in like 60 seconds." -- he gave in and took that craptop back. I'm not saying it was a bad laptop, it had potential. But the operating system was seriously holding it back. I have like 5 wifi networks in my house... I also created TestMy.net so I'm pretty sure that I know how to get a computer on the Internet. It just said "Limited Connectivity" on every network and kept asking to register over the Internet! lol hello! catch 22! He was thinking of putting Windows 7 on it... okay, so now we have to buy new laptops and spend more money to put 4 year-old operating system on them. Yeah, that seems really efficient... efficient for Microsoft's pocket! My brother-in-law didn't listen and got a PC which came with Windows 7 and Toshiba gave him a free upgrade to Win8. He upgraded and none of his stuff worked anymore. The backlight to his keyboard, the function keys... important hardware stuff just simply wasn't supported even though Toshiba told him it was totally supported. He also was getting errors and freezes all over the place. He went back down to Win7 and is happy now. What a headache though. Could have saved ALL of that time and effort and got an Apple to start with. All that time on the phone dealing with that BS, could have been spent smelling roses or finding a cure for cancer. I dunno, just not on a tech support call. Microsoft will figure themselves out. They need to stop trying to be different and cool and get back to the core of what made them popular. One windows device that I thought was awesome. The Nokia Lumia 1020, however I haven't played with one. I'm sure that it feels retarded being a Windows phone but the camera is insane. 41MP and a real xenon flash. Does it perform well as a phone, I don't know. But that sensor, 41MP... let's put that in perspective... the Hubble Telescope has 64X less resolution. It has so much resolution that you can digitally zoom 4X and still have lossless 1080P quality. Too bad they ruined it all up and put it on a windows phone. -- still, an amazing jump in technology for sure. After he got his Macbook Pro (which was maybe a couple hundred more than the other laptop). It booted up and he was on the Internet within I'd say... 90 seconds (so I was wrong... it wasn't 60 seconds, lol). I put in his info, installed MS Office and synced his iPhone for the first time... he's been glued to it ever since. He thought there was going to be a huge learning curve but in reality it just works how you'd expect it to so I think he's really happy with his choice. He'll have far less headaches and be more productive for sure. If you're in the market for a new computer. Choose the one with an OS that's leading the way into the future... not the one that wastes your life with technical issues. I'll leave it up to you which is which. ... and remember, saving money is only saving money if it doesn't waste time.

I see your stats at https://testmy.net/compID/900739111929 Don't expect to get upload speeds as fast as your download speed. On a consumer level it can be rare. Consult your ISP about the upload speed you should be getting. In your case Comcast's packages are listed at DSL Reports http://www.dslreports.com/faq/15643 ... They seem to be updated.

Wow, good deal for $30... Charter hooks it up!

I'm testing well on LTE

Welcome Robin! Glad to see you're able to post. ... I learned from our conversation that Robin's 'critters' are things like a lamb and a mountain lion. She's also a welder and comfortable working with heavy machinery. Very cool, she'll fit in around here.

Windows Media Center shouldn't have anything to do with that software. They're totally separate. If there is a problem with that software I'd like to know... but I'm not the author. I just refer people to their software. I have a similar offer for Mac users. Both vendors have an easy and helpful process for issues. PC Speed Up Support Ticket and MacKeeper contact and support (for Mac users) -- if PC Speed Up finds that their software is at fault (maybe it made a mistake in optimizing the registry) please let me know so I can talk to them about it and make sure it's not an issue for my users going forward. By the way ... both software vendors I'm using right now have zero complaints from my users over the course of years of referrals. Let me know if you're unhappy with it, I need to know that stuff.

No problem... I love building this and that so many people find it useful. It may have been a weird glitch in the browser that caused the client-side javascript to lag... resulting in the time being started late... resulting in an inflated score. I put a comments in the results program detailing a method I think I could use to make sure it never happens again. I'll work it in later, as you can see by your other results it's an infrequent occurrence. ...I'd bet money that it was a client-side browser hiccup. But I think that I can detect it, in a fairly simple way... ...if I can detect it, I can calculate it out or start a new test. Thanks for letting me know, you really help by reporting things like that.

First, what's your connection speed supposed to be?

Hey, sorry for the delayed response. I'm deep in development. I can't wait to show you guys the new utility I've been building. The amount of useful network information it will provide is INSANE. It will be released to my beta users first. If you haven't already sign up for that... I'll update the beta users group and email them when I make an announcement. It's automated, you tell the server to inspect the IP and it builds you a report while you do other stuff. It then emails you the report and flashes notification that it's complete on TestMy.net. ... the reports are very deep and detailed. It's going to blow your minds. ...seriously powerful tool. It's going to make the Internet better. Anyway, on to your topic. Yeah, it happens. I try my hardest to detect that and throw you a new test... if you tell me exactly what you did when you started the test it might help me program a fix for that situation. It could be that the browser glitched, but I might be able to detect it on my end if that's the case... I just need to know how it glitched. Did you go back in the browser? Did you request the page differently other than clicking the links on the page? I removed the result, you can also do this yourself by clicking the X next to the result. I noticed there was a bug, I had a conflict but I fixed that button. It now also removes the result from all the databases... not just the main user DB. I was doing a trial on the delete button and it seems that the results being removed are genuine so I'm going to allow that function to delete from all the databases. I'm also going to give you multi selection options and the ability to organize your results, in my next major database upgrade.

You're seeing the peaks but are you taking the valleys into account? btw... I'm working on TiP for the upload test which will show greater detail of what's happening during the test.

I get this one often... I think that people research the attacker and end up finding information I have listed, then they use my contact form for some reason. Maybe they think I'm the ISP. All I know is that lots of people send me emails like the following. Hi Adi, You've probably mistaken the tool that's helping you research your attacker for the attacker. I run TestMy.net and have no connection to that IP address, other than providing information about who they are. You probably were researching the IP and found information like... Research IP 221.15.163.82 Good luck tracking them down. I have to deal with hackers like that on a daily basis, I know your pain. Your attacker is from China, your best to find a way to block the attack; if you have a hard time contact your ISP. Contacting the attackers ISP in China (or Russia) is usually hopeless. Which is dumb because it degrades their network as much as yours... attacks usually take bandwidth, the Chinese and Russians weaken their own networks by not working with us. Probably about 90% of attacks on my servers come out of China or Russia. It's not because the Chinese and Russians are out to get us... the hackers are often in different countries tunneling in. Those countries just don't seem to care if their computers attack Western computers and networks, they don't do much to stop it. If you're getting DDoS attacked your host may be able to filter your traffic through something like Cisco Guard. I've had my host do that a few times for me, it does a great job. It allows good traffic to continue flowing while stopping the attack. Last time I had it enabled it was blocking a little aggressively and denied some genuine traffic. But it still helped to mitigate the situation. Your host should provide this for you free of charge. Stopping attacks like this makes their networks faster and better... they need to help you stop it, the data is flowing through the network you essentially rent from them. --- if your host won't help, find a new host. - Kind Regards, - Damon

Hi Angela, Usually you have to query the Connection ID separately to look at the results you took when you weren't logged in. Having said that... I added a feature for you. By default it will now include the tests taken on the same connection. It will highlight the result yellow if it's not logged by username. (see the screenshot) You can also toggle the feature on and off below the results list. (see the other screenshot) Hope this helps. Please note that only works on the connection that you're using, if you share the page others can still only see the results logged by username. If your IP changes those results will remain but may be lost unless you know the ID. My next database upgrade will track your IP changes so after that you won't have to worry. Until then, stay signed in and you'll easily track your results. Thanks for the suggestion, please let me know what you think. - Damon - TestMy.net

Are you seeing much quicker response time? You should also go into the router and change the DNS. Then other machines on the network that resolve DNS to the router will resolve to the DNS you want. You can then enter the DNS in your computer as the router address... and when you change it on the router the setting is global for your network, not just the one computer. Here's in my Netgear N600 Usually your routers http server can be found at http://192.168.1.1 (other common addresses are 192.168.0.1 or 192.168.1.100) Under the basic settings You're right, faster DNS speeds up the lookup of domain names, quickens response time... doesn't make your internet speed faster but it can make it snappier between clicks. I'll give the google DNS a try... the ones I have entered are for Cox and are very nice already. Let's see if I can see a difference.

Update on Donald's results. 6 hours right now. up to ~ 5x slower in the valleys than the peaks. That's significant for sure.

Hi Charles Norris, can I call you Chuck... just kidding. I bet you get that a lot. Or maybe you are THE Chuck Norris, I don't know. So, when it comes to size larger is always better when it comes to testing Internet speed. The size that's right for your connection will be different from the size that's right for my connection. If you send me a the link for your results I can give you an idea of what a good size is for your connection. TestMy.net also makes suggestions. On the upload and download test pages you'll see an 'express' button. Express sizes the download based on your previous results. It usually does a good job of picking a good size without going overboard with the size.... you want it large, but not so large it's going to waste your afternoon. If you look at my screenshot you'll see the button. For me it's suggesting 44MB, which fluctuates as tests are performed. The button on the homepage that says "Test My Speed" (now says "Test My Internet") also uses the express feature when applicable. Although it tests both upload and download... in my opinion you only usually need to test download speed. I hope this helps and I hope you like what I've built. Please take the time to help me spread the word if you like what you see. - Happy Testing! - Damon Mueller - TestMy.net

Hi Alvin, If you go to "Your Results" below the graph is a link that says "Export". Click that and TestMy.net will output a .csv file that can be read by spreadsheet and database programs like excel, access, mysql, etc.. it can also be read by any simple text editor. For your convince the links above will get you to what they describe future readers of this, only my results will work for you. Attached is a screenshot of my "Your Results" page with the link highlighted. The export link follows the query, so if you query a specific period of time for instance it will only export those results that were shown. Exporting is cool if you want to play with graphing the information yourself. But the results saved to my databases aren't going anywhere and it's pretty easy to query and graph the information within the site... if you wanted to export to share your results, you could alternately share the query. You'll also see share links in the same area as export as long as you have a browser that supports flash (no longer necessary). You can share the URL from the address bar on "Your Results" but if you modify the query in any way you need to use the "Share This Query" button as also seen in the screenshot. Another screenshot shows the detailed list below the graph. If you want to share a single score click 'share' on the right. If you want to share two, simply copy the Test ID of one of the results then click 'share' on the other... paste the score you copied and submit and you'll be shown options for two combined. ... You know what... here's a little video I put together to show you. My family is sleeping, it's only 6:30 here is Arizona right now, so just pretend that I narrated it. haha ... if you turn the sound up you can hear pandora playing in the background. TMN is an independent one man operation and 100% word-of-mouth. I hope you like what I've built and share it with your friends. - Kind Regards, - Damon - TestMy.net

Hi Joe, I've never personally had a Satellite connection to test on... but the principals are the same for any connection type. Data is sent or received, I time it and calculate the speed... many ISPs no longer like my results, I tell consumers the truth. Over the years I've got feedback from literally thousands of satellite users. They ALWAYS tell me just the opposite. They say it's the only truly reliable way to test. The veteran users of Wildblue World and the admin of xplornetsucks.com swear by it... Accurate Speeds Or Speed Test Error? (search their forums... hundreds of examples of Wildblue users testing with TestMy.net) Use Testmy.net or else!! NO MORE speedtest.net posts will be allowed!!! (Xplornet is another satellite ISP, this forum is made by and for it's frustrated users) I don't know these guys. But they are satellite experts and use TMN over the other options out there. Also, if TMN was inaccurate on Satellite then why does ViaSat want me to design something to display their average speed on their website? (added: this is now available on the share tab for all the ISPs, cities and countries listed in the speed test database) If you research deep enough in my forums you'll see numerous accounts of Wildblue sending their customers to TestMy.net so I don't know why they would tell you that. Maybe now they've joined the bandwagon and are hosting their own BS test. Trust me, get network monitoring software that graphs your throughput and compare TestMy.net to others... You'll realize quickly that Wildblue is full of sh!t. You can trust them or you can trust the findings of an independent third party that's been testing connections for over 17 years. My results and methods are time tested and proven. Thank you for visiting, I hope you like what I've built. It's a labor of love... please help by spreading the word. TestMy.net is word-of-mouth. And if you spot inaccuracy in my results, I'd love to hear about it. - Damon - TestMy.net P.S. Thank you for the feedback. I need to know this stuff. I can add them to a long list of ISPs who tell that to their customers. It's not true.

Hi Mike, Check out https://testmy.net/make-a-speed-test -- start the process and I'd love to get a custom test setup for you. - Damon - TestMy.net Oh, Sorry Mark, I misunderstood. I woke up at like 4:30, I answered your email half a sleep and went back to bed. Haha. That's the kind of dedication I have to my website. I had 4 people ask me for speed tests yesterday and I guess I half read your message and assumed that was what you wanted. Oops, sorry. I'm always interested when people ask me this question. About 6 months ago I had a serious offer. Whoever it was had his broker call me, I guess the guy buys a lot of sites. I declined, they forgot a zero. My site is worth much more to me than money. It would take a very serious offer to peak my interest. 8 figures, that would make me sleep on it. You might not think that's worth it... I don't care because I'm not selling it anyway. It's a strong growing market that I'm growing in. I believe very strongly in what I've built and I think it's only a matter of time before more people realize. For me to not see this to the end... it would be expensive for whoever was interested. But that's because I know what I'm sitting on and I'm patient enough to wait. -- there is no other site that does what mine does, using only native browser technology. I also offer logging and auto testing functions that nobody has. It's only a matter of time before more people realize that I'm here. Watch, wait and see. I appreciate your interest, shows me I'm on the right track, Cheers, - Damon Mueller - TestMy.net Hi again Mark, I want it to be out of peoples price range because I don't want to sell it. I've been actually getting a lot of emails asking the same thing. Here's one that just came in a couple hours ago. "One of our TOP clients expressed interest in making an offer on buying your website business testmy.net. He would like to know more details (upon a signed NDA if you require) and if all things are fine and we come to an agreement as far as pricing, we could close a deal." I'm happy that people are interested, like I said, it shows I'm on the right track. But I just don't see myself selling it, I've really poured myself into TMN so much that selling it is like selling myself. So even when it's worth the figures I would want right now... I'll just change the price to something else that nobody would pay. Haha. I sabotage the possibility of selling it on purpose. Now when I feel like I've finished... I might want to sell it. Although I'm starting to feel like I can't finish it, there is always more I can do. As for the "make a speed test". This is brand new, right now the mirrors function as my own mirrors do. The host sets up TestMy.net on their server, TMN and the host server work together to provide the speed test. TMN takes care of the heavy lifting like usernames, logging, results processing, statistics... the host server runs a controller that TMN calls upon, drawing off the host resources. This allows people to setup their own private speed test servers with minimal requirements on the host end. --- later I'll offer ways to better integrate the service into websites. Here's an example from a German website Thanks again for the interest, keep visiting! - Damon

Hi, Want to know the way I do it? I don't delete anything, I change the query date range. This way you can look back at those old results. On "Your Results" you will see an 'update' button, next to that is the date range. Enter the number of days you'd like to go back and the date, it will remember your choice later. Another thing you can do is add an extra identifier. Before the test, select an extra id, there are drop down boxes near the testing links around the site. You can then modify your query to show only those results. Play around with the ways to narrow your query within "Your Results" page. Having said that... I'm going to have an option to reset all results and select multiple results for deletion. New concepts will include an undo option for anything deleted along with more ways to organize and sort your test results. If you want to get these features before the general public please signup for the new beta program. They should be released within the next couple of months. If you like what I've built, please spread the word. - Cheers, - Damon This is slated for the next version. But you can always contact me and I'll reset it for you. - Damon

Hi Chris, I'd be happy to help. Free to you and your users, I'll even set the server up for you if you need me to. Everything I offer is free... you're promoting my service. Go to https://testmy.net/make-a-speed-test to start the process. Email me back the server details and I'll get you a test server online that works exactly like TestMy.net... it just uses your resources. I run the same exact build on my own mirrors. I have an update coming out in a few days so as soon as we get you online we'll need to update the core. This is brand new, there are lots more in store over the next few months. I'm beta testing a brand new mobile GUI. Go to the homepage, scroll to the bottom and click 'mobile optimized' ... it works great in all resolutions and uses the same core as the full version. When I'm finished I'll flip the switch so that it defaults to that GUI for mobile devices automatically. (released and done long ago) I've done it in the past but this version is VERY adaptive. Pages morph automatically to fit the situation. I definitely have the most compatible speed test, by far. Hit me back when you're ready, I look forward to getting you going. - Damon - TestMy.net

Hi Ken, I have users that regularly pull over 600 Mbps (>70 MB/s). My servers are ALL very well connected with at least 1000 Mbps symmetrical. My main server has dual symetrical 1000 Mbps connections connected into Softlayer's multi-homed network >> http://www.softlayer.com/about/network/carriers. I'm in all of their datacenters. I've got a lot of bandwidth to back up my application, before anything... I make sure that my bandwidth is premium for my users. It's a bandwdith testing application, to be real.. it has to be on the best connected networks. Research my host and you'll find that I'm very well connected and peered. ... My main server is also very powerful with SSD RAID5 and 24 cores. Overpowering my end means that when you test you're guaranteed a private core, memory and plenty of bandwidth on tap. I'm running at a small fraction of my servers potential... and then I have 5 other servers on top of that to choose from. All dedicated to the task of speed testing. https://testmy.net/mirror -- 10 more mirrors hosted by other people too (new project, offering it up to anyone with a web server, you should host one at your school if you can). https://testmy.net/make-a-speed-test I suggest testing to some of the mirrors to see if there may be a routing issue. If you get limited speeds similar on most servers you might want to look into the problem locally. Either on the client machine or network. Often tweaking TCP settings can improve connections that fast. For Windows, which is the worst culprit, search for TCP optimizer from speedguide.net (I think it's) https://speedguide.net/downloads.php. For other OS search google for gigabit TCP tweaks for your specific OS. Note that TestMy.net is sensitive to many issues that other speed tests don't detect. It's purposely designed to be a hard test to ace... try to score as high as you can, then compare your subsequent results to your own average, highs and lows. Don't expect to pull your full speed on every connection type you test with... especially gigabit and faster. I can't... but the tools still makes the health of your connection very obvious in my opinion. TestMy.net is more than just an Internet speed test. I've seen first hand where it scored my girlfriends macbook under 20 Mbps on a 50 Mbps connection... I swapped her hard drive for an SSD and upon reboot her TestMy.net score maxed out my connection. I purposely tested around to prove a point. No other speed test picked up on it... even though my download and Internet surfing performance were obviously degraded. I wrote every line of code and I don't even know what truly makes my test different, it just is. Some known differences between how I do it and how my leading competitors do it are touched on at https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/28902-why-do-my-results-differ-from-speedtestnet-ookla-speed-tests/. If you like my life's work, please share it... it's totally word-of-mouth. - Damon