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Here's some information on that... In summary, those can be ignored, sometimes. Source: customer.comcast.com

There are a few things not showing up correctly in IE. I'll see why that is and clean it up in my next round of programming.

Hi again Joxxer! Welcome and thank you for your TestMy.net Speed Test in Düsseldorf Germany -- I'm sure that users in Germany will thank you too. I'll change your member group later. I want to make a special group for people who're hosting a speed test. Anyone who hosts a test deserves props. Cheers

Got kinda deep there mudmanc4... lol I've typed my posts today on my iPhone... I'm often on the iPad... But you need a desktop for certain things. Not all people need a desktop these days however. Mobile devices are really coming into their own. I sometimes do a hybrid... I use an app called Jump to Remote Desktop into one of my Macs. (Christian found a good free one called LogMeIn) And then use my iPad kinda like a normal computer, mouse and all. Really helpful if I'm out of the house and something on the site needs administration... I can do it on my iPhone and iPad. I think the majority of people could get by with just an iPad or tablet. Even for strenuous work... Just hook up peripherals and it's like a desktop computer. Might not even need that with Google Glass http://www.google.com/glass/start/ --- I imagine within 5 years you can have the feed directly in your mind on the consumer level. Want to play a game... want to search for something... want to send a text or email... you just think about it and your mind connects to the Internet. The possibilities once that is widespread are endless. Especially once it becomes heavily developed. Mark my word... It will happen in your lifetime.

Even though I heard it the first time... It was just as funny. Poor Microsoft. They just don't get it anymore. Surface, lol. Time will tell.

There will be multiple / mass delete and select options in the next database upgrade. I should have that for you all soon. But no, I'm not at all concerned about the space taken up. I encourage my users to never delete records. It's kinda cool to look back your history. Especially once you've gathered years of results. I'm more concerned about my bandwidth... Storage is never an issue. My main server has 500 GB free on raid 5 SSD... It will take billions of entries before space would be an issue. Bandwidth on the other hand... I'm going to have to order 10+ TB in advance for next month if I want to get it at half price. Luckily the public supports my advertisers so I can afford the kind of hosting this site needs to be accurate and also support so many users. ... thanks everyone. I promise to continue developing this as well as upgrading my hardware and networking as demand rises. Traffic to TestMy.net is hitting harder than it has in many years... I figure without changing anything I can comfortably support 5X current traffic. Well over 100k users a day. And if we need more test resource... I'll put it online in an instant. Just keep spreading the word. TestMy.net is word-of-mouth only. I appreciate the support.

Welcome to TestMy.net! Aloha!

In my experience it's not nessisary to reinstall. I've upgraded without reinstall since 2009 without a single issue. Windows is a different story but OSX upgrades very cleanly. Save yourself a headache and just update it bro. Some software only works with Lion+ so that's a good reason in itself.

Great to hear! See, I told you... I had the same issue. But it wasn't always like that with Snow Leopard. Who knows what the true cause is... it's an easy fix and really... you should run Lion if you can anyways. It's a great version of OSX in my opinion. I truly tax the hell out of my machines and it's totally stable and handles everything I throw at it. All I know is that I'm glad that I hopped on Apple's ship a long time ago (once they went Intel I knew my future was with Mac)... there is no way I could develop as fast as I do without my Macs. No BS... it does what I tell it to, just like Linux... because it pretty much is a flavor of Linux.

For a simple layout like that, for that information. I'd do a single table. The reason you'd want to split them up is if there was a lot of information stored for each person or the overall database was expected to have hundreds of thousands or millions of entries. Examples on TestMy.net where I split the databases into individual tables would be the host, city and country databases. Having them split allows me to run batch queries that split the load of complex operations... on really large amounts of information if they were stored under one table when there is an issue it causes everything to fail. Splitting it allows separation, if a table becomes corrupt it doesn't cause the entire database to fail. You also don't have to worry as much about locking during backups and stuff because the tables are smaller... so if they do lock it's only briefly. Usually not effecting the client. In the example where I split my tables there are about 100,000 tables of information each of which has up to 100,000 entries (a batch program comes in once a day and prunes the tables for me... keeping queries very fast). The master database I have is a single table and has MANY millions of entries. But in this instance a single table fits the bill because it's highly indexed for it's purpose. But if I were to try to use that table for getting individual host, city or country averages... it would crash the server in a heartbeat. Even with 24 cores... the server would spiral out of control. There's just too much information to process. So I store my inf.... well, your information in about 10 different ways so I can query more efficiently. You're smart for planning ahead. You have to when you build databases, you have to picture not only what you need right now but also plan the growth of the database. To tell you the truth, I probably don't do it the best way. I've just found what works for me. With mySQL though, as with php, you make of it what you want to. How you layout your design is totally subjective to your application. There really is no right or wrong way to do it. But there are more efficient ways. Trick is to find them. ... I think you'll be able to efficiently do that with one table. Index the fields that you query heavily and it should be very fast for that purpose. -D

Glad I could help! -D

No problem, here are the current TestMy.net servers and IP addresses. testmy.net :: (75.126.77.87) tmnstatic.com :: (108.162.199.197) [serves the sites static content such as javascript, css and images] dc.testmy.net :: (50.22.241.82) [Washington D.C.] west.testmy.net :: (50.22.191.251) [seattle, WA] eu.testmy.net :: (5.10.86.18) [Europe / Amsterdam, NL] asia.testmy.net :: (119.81.41.242) [Asia / Singapore, SG] Also...

Hope you like what you see. It won't fail for high latency. You'll probably get poor results but it's to be expected.

Welcome to TestMy.net. I hope you enjoy your stay!

Real nice... I added a screenshot for you

This has been expanded to the mirrors.

Disregard the last bit.. Wrote that before I read your post.

Keep looking around, there's probably a lot of other stuff you have yet to discover here.

Okay, now if you click the testID in the database results it opens within the page to save time. Click close or click the grey background to go back.

I got your email, at least I assume that was you. As I replied in the message... Hi CCS1, Ahhhh Ireland, I dream of visiting my forefathers home land. I'm going to make it a goal to visit in the next couple of years. I'm 3/4 Irish 1/4 German. Yes, we can totally setup a server, where ever you'd like. If you go to https://testmy.net/mirror you will see information on becoming a host. For you to create your own private speed test you'd have to first setup a server. This doesn't have to be a crazy expensive server. A VPS with a good connection to the Internet will do the trick. I don't know how much you know about servers... or setting something up like this. But if you have somewhat of an understanding of that stuff it's a very simple install process. If you don't know about that stuff, get a server and send me the root credentials and I'll take care of everything for you. Free of charge. You of course have to supply the VPS. If you search Ireland VPS you'll get an idea of what those cost. You want to make sure that you get one that's well connected in a good datacenter so make sure you read reviews and do research. Another thing you could do... ask your ISP to host the test. Tell them you want it. Maybe they'll oblige. I also have a server in NL that you might want to check out if you haven't already, on the same page. Another thing to consider is that you probably visit a lot of servers outside of Ireland... probably more often than inside Ireland. The speeds you get to the other servers are going to be more realistic than numbers within Ireland. But if it's closer it does give you a better idea of the capabilities of your connection.

Look on the forum home page... Scroll down and you'll see that

Alright... TiP Data is now being logged. Click on the test ID in your results to get the details from each result. Example Test Result: https://testmy.net/db/Gz0xKPY Later I'll make it so you can just hover over the result to pull that information... and within 24 hours I should have it expanded to all the mirrors. -D

Welcome to the site.