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Hey Jack... I added a best answer/solved feature. Just click "Mark Solved" on the posts that helped you most. sorry it took so long.

Sounds like the contacts on the card weren't seated correctly. ... Remember old NES games, where you had to finagle the cartridge in the slot... otherwise you'd start up and often see lines or messed up characters. Basically the same thing was happening, if those pins don't have clean contact you'll have issues. It could have even been a hair or something else in the slot blocking the contact. Imagine if a little piece of material covers one of those pins. This is why people would always blow into the old cartridges... to clear even the smallest obstructions, like dust and hair. More common, the card was probably only partially seated in the slot. It could even be that the pins on the slot on the motherboard have worn out and lost springiness, if you swap video card very frequently this may be the case. If you look reeeeeeeal close in the slot you should be able to see if any of the pins look different. They should all look the same and be evenly spaced and square with each other. Even a single pin missing contact can cause failure or issues. The smaller the pins... the lower the tolerance... the less it takes to bend a pin or lose contact. PCIe pins are pretty damn small but I personally have never broken or bent one... then again, once I place a card I rarely remove it so someone that's swapping video cards a lot may have a whole different story. Lucky for you it sounds like your second PCIe slot did the trick.

I replied to your other topic about ping... I think that there is some kind of network or browser limitations on consoles. Everyone sees this on Xbox, ps3 and wii browsers. I haven't tested enough to know for sure... Would be nice if you can tweak the TCP settings somehow, so I can get my damn updates faster! It's normal... let us know if you find a way to pull more speed.

Thanks, don't have one... But that should be added to the test soon.

Thanks. Are you talking about twitch.tv? Been getting more traffic from their users chat rooms lately. I appreciate the feedback and spreading the word, very cool.

I typed a reply to this yesterday. I must have got side tracked and forgot to submit. Anyway, welcome!

Hey Jack, How much did you want to spend on a cable modem? I'll give you some suggestions from there.. Sorry for the delay in response, some personal stuff came up and I've got a big backlog of messages right now.

lol, there will be a reply soon..

Most of them probably aren't actually in Russia, just tunneling through there. So don't be pissed off at Russians. lol. Be pissed off that Russia doesn't do anything about it... so people use Russia as a gateway to mess with people. ... I haven't had any problems since I changed to keycaptcha on registration. Way less registrations, but they're all human. I was so impressed with it after just a couple days I paid them for the full version.

I might just make this an option for registered users. Most people aren't registered... if someone really wants to turn the ads off, they can anyway. I actually think it would be cool and totally unique if I just made it an option for my registered members. ... what do you guys think about that? Screw donations... I don't want your money. I'd rather be supported through my advertisers. I don't think offering that would hurt my revenue. Any small loss in revenue would be out weighted by making my users happy. Happy users tell people... most of those people that subsequently visit will see the ads and possibly see something they like. See how I just sold myself on the idea. Make sure you signup for the new beta program. This option will first be made available and announced to beta testers. I don't mind the ads, I tune them out most of the time. But the site does look much cleaner with them off. I'll make it an option to turn them off, as long as your logged in. Just do me a favor, if you like what I'm doing... spread the word. I have very expensive servers and TMN requires A LOT of bandwidth, support of my ads is what pays those bills. If your going to disable that, at least tell people about the site. If you're using the site enough to want to disable the ads... then you must like it. ... I also think that people that want to disable the ads probably wouldn't click them anyway. So let's just save everyone the bandwidth and make it an option. lol. Look for that soon

Damn dude! Your running just above ambient air temperature. That's awesome. I love your 'thesuspect' on the side, very clean. Looks like you silkscreened it or something. Hard to tell in the pic, could be vinyl. ... nice build. Smart sticking with Windows 7.

I have A LOT of upcoming releases, many of which are going to be built around a new concept. Because there is so much core programming being changed I'm going to do something I've never done. I normally work on the site live and things are released as I write them... if your in the right place at the right time and you pay enough attention you can see me building sometimes. Well, I really feel that the version I have out right now is INCREDIBLY stable... I don't want to disturb any testing or use of the site. So I'm going to offer a beta program for those who wish to join. To join, vote Yes on the poll above. I'll add you to a special member group and you'll be emailed with updates. You'll also have an option in your menu that will allow you to switch between beta and release. Smaller updates will be globally available but the major ones will be held back for the beta testers to play with first. This will help find bugs before public release. When I'm satisfied with the code I'll offer an option for a while to the general public to turn on the beta... after general public beta testing I'll then release it to the final. We'll then start the whole process again for another round. This is going to be really hard for me to do, I really hate to hold new stuff back. But maybe doing it this way will help me spend less time on bug checking and more time of actually building. I'm one person. Your help with this is appreciated. Everyone who has ever submitted a comment... you've already helped build this site. I started with a vison but you guys expanded it. If I'm going to keep bringing those ideas to paper I really need your help. I have at least a couple thousand hours of programming planned just for the next 3-6 months. I need to use my time effectively, spending hundreds of hours searching for bugs is not using my time wisely. Register (If you haven't already), vote yes above and I'll email you later when I have more information. Then, you can tell your friends that you helped build this site. Thanks -D

Totally... SmarTest will get a lot smarter once latency is written into the algorithm. Then it will know to send you to the larger test automatically. I'm working on it... you should see my to-do list, lol. The drawing board is strewn with great ideas submitted by members. I think I'm going to do something different with my upcoming releases, I'm posting a topic on that right now.

Yeah, with SSD and i7... you're right, your computer probably isn't the bottleneck. Although, I've seen setups just like your where hardware was newer... sometimes ends up being the network card or the ethernet cable. If you have access to a secondary control on board, have an extra card laying around or if you have a USB ethernet to try I suggest giving a different NIC controller a try. Also, do you have a DOCSIS 3.0 modem? I assume with the package your on that they'd make you get a 3.0 modem, right? We've also seen where the cable techs have deemed a line to be okay... scores suffer here, after talking with us the customers exchanged their modems and BAM, issue resolved. Again, no other speed tests seemed to detect that. I have no idea why other speed tests don't see some of this stuff. I have a feeling it has to do with multithreading or the fact that those tests ignore the worst of your results. ...how the hell is it a test if a large portion of the results are omitted. --- I don't know how the other guys do it... I just know that a large percentage of the overall posts to this forum are people asking the same questions as you are. People always blame me, they think that my system is broken or something. After explaination the people who choose to dig deeper often write us back to let us know that in fact there was a problem that was undetected by other speed test. Research old threads here, talk to veteran users of TestMy.net... they'll all back up what I'm saying. Good luck. Like I said, if it's not bothering you I wouldn't trip out on it. That's not a big red flag score. Don't let your TMN score frustrate you unless your Internet is frustrating you. Now if you were reading 10Mbps, I'd be more concerned about it effecting your browsing. Having said that, if it was my connection.... I'd crack out on it until I pulled perfect speeds, at least to the closest server. But I'm OCD so it would bug the crap out of me until it was right or as close as I could get it. If you figure it out and get improved results please let me know what it was. - Cheers - D

nice, looks like you're getting what you pay for

Hi TomMN, sorry for the long reply... maybe you'll stick with it and read it, maybe not. I just want you and others to understand why the results here can differ. Sometimes I start writing and don't realize how much I've written... TestMy.net is it's own benchmark. Look at the results here differently than you do other speed tests. TestMy.net by default tests a single thread, multithread testing options will be available in the future. I'm going to offer the option to multithread but the default will remain the same because I believe it's a better benchmark as it uncovers connection issues that a multithreaded speed test results mask. Multithreading, in case you don't know, is where you open multiple connections, and combine the results. Your connection should NOT need to do this to pull big numbers. Look at my signature... many of my tests are taken from THOUSANDS of miles from the servers. If you want to REALLY benchmark your connection, you need to test it under real world conditions not best case senario. TestMy.net is by design NOT a best case senario... the Internet doesn't operate under best case senario... Your provider has too much at stake, especially someone as big as Comcast. If they do the test in a certain way and display the results in a certain way they aren't really lying.... look at my TiP data with each download test. That shows you clearly that it's ALL in how the numbers are interpreted. I could show you any of those numbers and call it my result.... what I do with TestMy.net is show you EVERYTHING taken into account in your final logged number. There are lots of things that can cause your result to drop like that. We have a 2006 Macbook that could only get around 30 Mbps on TestMy.net, on a 50Mbps cable connection. The connection was perfectly fine... I swapped out the HDD for a SSD, rebooted and was pulling over 50Mbps. TestMy.net is weird sometimes... I designed it and it baffles me sometimes how good it is at it's job. Trust me... you're getting that score for a reason. You might be pulling your speed under the right circumstances but you're not truly running at 100%. If you fix the issues causing that it will make your browsing experience snappier. Having said that, that's not a bad score. It could be hard drive performance slowing you down... TMN is the only speed test that I know of that is effected like that. As you use your browser things are being written to cache... if your HDD is under performing then that process is slowed. If it can be changed and it effects the results... it's a variable that needs to be accounted for. TMN does a good job of cluing you into stuff like that where others fail. ... maybe they do that on purpose to cut down on service calls, I don't know. I just know that TMN time and again shows a problem where others don't. If you're on Windows, try TCP optimizer from Speedguide.net -- we get lots of positive feedback on that, for MANY years. Most operating systems don't come optimized out of the box for connections like yours... if you want to really tune your performance you need your MTU set at 1500 on cable. If you used to have DSL it may be set at 1492 which will degrade your performance on cable (and vice versa). Something else that TMN detects... where others seems to fail to notice. ... it can REALLY degrade your performance too. Symptoms of MTU or RWIN settings set wrong will be a speed lock. I often see it displayed as between 8-10 Mbps on connections that should get 2X higher speeds. If this is the case you will see the same approximate speed or lower to all servers. With you running 38Mbps... it might be something else. ... by the way, Comcast is one of many ISPs that my host has direct peering with. So you should have a pretty direct route to all my servers. Try the server in Washington D.C. and Seattle WA... see what you get there TestMy.net should be a tool in your arsenal, use it as a clue. If you have an apparent 60 Mbps pipe into your house but can only pull 38Mbps, there is a reason. Routing, client end settings, router issues, modem issues... we see it all. One thing is always the same, TestMy.net is correct in its assessment. I guarantee you that if everything is perfectly in order you'll pull your speed. Trust me Tom... this isn't my first rodeo. 10 years before Comcast started sending their customers to their own speed test... their customer service reps were sending people here. The truth is, I don't make them look as good. But I don't care, I didn't build this for the ISPs. I built it for you. Related :: TestMy.net Bandwidth Test Legitimacy Why Do My Results Differ From Speedtest.net / Ookla Speed Tests?

Yes. TestMy.net works with all popular modern browsers without any plugins or downloads. As long as you have JavaScript enabled in your browser... which is the default... you'll be able to use everything on this site.

I can add an option to lock in a specific minimum size. Like is done on the auto test. That would help, right?

That's just it spypet... nothing changed. Maybe a connection along your route was upgraded. Your result wasn't cached, that's highly unlikely here. There are multiple cache resistance features to TestMy.net. I can't pull my full speed through well seeded torrents all the time either. With a 21.4MB test size, powerboost or whatever Roadrunner calls it could be a factor. Try testing with 100MB, see what a larger size yields. I see some 40MB tests you did and if you notice the speed lowered... I bet it will go down a couple more Mbps if you do 100MB. ... I think your route improved. Be happy!

lol

That's a great idea. I'll work something up for you.

Thanks TunaLik, (do you 'like' Tuna... or do you 'lick' Tuna. trying figure out your nick. ) Always good to see things working as they should. Thanks for the feedback! Nice connection!

To tell you the truth dude, I'd bet it has to do with the sensor that senses a paper jam. That light, if I'm not mistaken, is mostly to inform you of low toner or a paper jam. Could also be the door sensor, I think that light will come on if the door is open too. If somehow one of those switches broke that senses if there is a paper jam or the door is open it's very possible it would still print perfectly but the light will remain on. As long as it's working... who cares though. -- isn't Xerox Phaser pretty old, I'd be happy that it works at all. Maybe that's just me. It isn't drivers. If it was a driver issue the computer wouldn't have a way to communicate with the printer. He wouldn't be able to print and the computer couldn't have a way to even tell the printer to turn on the error light. Remember drivers are instruction sets, if the computer doesn't have the instructions for that printer... it can't communicate with it. I would bet money that this issue is hardware not software related.

I agree, great program. Been referring people to speedguide's TCP Optimizer since... I think Windows ME was just released. I edited your post and added a link for people. I love that there is still tons of useful information on old.testmy.net forum .. cool to see people linking there still.