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I'll make sure that's fixed... Thanks for making TestMy.net one of your few visited sites.

I'll look into this... You shouldn't have to do that.

So, I'll be starting another round on this. I've only worked about 16 hours or so on the mirrors so there are a number of changes to be made as well as additions. So please bear with me. I'm at the stage with this where it is hardly even starting to take shape, if I can just get 5% of my idea written it'll be heading in the right direction. Just realize, what you see today might be totally rebuilt tomorrow. My process takes time, I don't have a team of programmers... I have to write everything by hand. Over time mirrors will become better integrated and will work with all the same features as the regular speed test. Just give me a little time to put it together for you all. Pgoodwin1, the doolgo server doesn't have to best routing everywhere. I tested up to 70 Mbps from some locations to there but I get terrible results there myself. It's capable, but your only as fast as your slowest link. The TestMy.net home server is still the benchmark, the additional servers give you something else to compare to. Having TMN code up on various VPS hosts can give people a way to benchmark VPS performance too. It's a great judge of web server performance, not just client end bandwidth. I'm working to build it to where you'll only need to drop a single file on the server for it to work. When I'm done, testing performance on any host will be as easy as checking your email. Upload a file, test... results. Triran and mudmanc4 have a few servers they're putting up. As soon as I rebuild a few things I'll get those listed. Mudmanc4, I'll respond to your message in a bit... If you want to really help, hook me up with FTP or shell access like Triran did. Then, when updates become available, I'll push them automatically to your server so you don't have to think about anything.

I'll double check on that when I get a free minute.

Agreed, that would be very useful information. As soon as I build the user profiles I have envisioned I'll make sure that's part of the extra information the user can input.

I'll be redoing that soon, right now you can only choose that if you're selected on the default server. It shows up on the download and upload test page. After I rework it I'll make sure that there is a way to select that from the homepage too.

I'll put something together for you...

Cool, can't wait to see it. Just upload the folder in the zip and email me a link, let me know the maximum bandwidth you want to share per month. Also, if you know the location of the server as well as the connection type... Let me know that stuff too and details that you think are important about the server. Once I can see the files I'll email you back a key file for your domain.

Hey Jim, I merged your topic with a previously posted topic. Just give it a little time, servers will start popping up all over the place. With only a couple minutes of effort anyone with a web server can start up a server. Just a matter of people knowing about it. After I'm done with the beta I'll start putting it out there more so people know about it. I'm sorry to my users for not populating a list before shutting those servers off. Hosting this site is not cheap, I had to trim a little. Not only is the new server more expensive, I'm going about 5TB over my limit... and growing. Those two servers didn't drawn enough bandwidth to make them worth what I was paying. Will they come back... Definitely, just a little different. I imagine a database of servers... ranked, catalogued and searchable. Need to get servers first. So if any of you have a server you want to try... contact me, it's a simple setup. It's a test of your server as much as the client.

Starting today the east and west servers are gone. But opening up to outside servers should populate mirrors quickly. I've already got requests and I have a list of people who've requested that in the past to get to. The new server in Texas is costing me more than three times the cost of all the mirrors. I had to cut some cost somewhere to justify the extra cost of the home server. I'm sure we'll already have a list going within a few days. That whole subset to the site will grow and give TestMy.net users many testing locations. There is also the auto routing option that routes via CDN.

I used to offer this option prior to 2005. But I didn't like the way I did it before so I scrapped the idea for a while. Today I'm releasing an option to those of you that would like to host your own speed test. The first server to run this is Doolgo.com (My Son's website). Hosted in New York. Use the Doolgo.com Speed Test This works with any web server running php 5 and Source Guardian. If you'd like to become part of the beta download the file below and follow the readme, once you've uploaded the files send me a message with the website address you'd like to setup. I'll put your information in the database and send you a key file that will get everything working. please request the latest build Install in minutes... approved and running within 24 hours. This is very early stage, more options etc are soon to come. I will eventually build a GUI for the signup and management but for now just shoot me a message. I'll update this thread as more information becomes available.

You can get TCP Optimizer at SpeedGuide.net by the way... It's a quick, easy solution that works for many. I no longer run Windows but when I did running TCP Optimizer was the first thing I did on a clean install.

Have you tried TCP Optimizer yet?

Not a problem, please help by spreading the word. Cheers, -Damon By the way... That's an awesome connection you have!

Handbrake is awesome. Especially for quick codec conversions. Actually they do have a version for windows and even Ubuntu. Download Handbrake -- You may also want to try VirtualDub. Both are completely free. Plus, I love this... "Put down that cocktail, your Handbreak queue is done!"

You may want to run TCP Optimizer on that win7 install. It may help in your case... https://www.speedguide.net/downloads.php

They actually advertise a cap?

Yeah, they have more time on their hands and tend to care more about the customer. Subcontractors want to hurry up so they can get to the next job to make more money. Here's a good example. I went out on a job in North Scottsdale AZ... there had been 6 previous calls to this mansion before I got the call. All the previous 'techs' were subcontractors. I could see work that had been done to the drop and the side of the house... but inside I notice that there is a very old connector behind the wall plate... and the cable is RG-59, with copper shielding. Already off to a bad start. I go up into the attic (huge by the way, I could stand up with about 6 ft of headroom... straight up mansion) and see a litteral rats nest of cables. Chewed all to shit by mice. Some were so bad there was 10 feet of cable with nothing but the core left. I thought to myself, "how the hell did they not see this!" it was instantly obvious as soon as you popped your head in there ... because they weren't doing their job, that's how. I called my dispatcher and had her give all my other jobs to my buddies because I had an all day job on my hands. I ended up doing a nearly 30 outlet rewire on this place. Luckily the attic was big and easy to work with. The lady was cool too, she hooked up a big blower fan at the entrance to blow A/C in there for me. So the job went really smooth. ... we charged her nothing for the entire job. These days, they'd charge for every single outlet. But obviously, if you have 30 outlets... money isn't a problem for you. -- Funny thing is, if the contractors had seen and repaired that, they would have made BANK. Probably a couple grade for that job. But they were too lazy to get into it. You should have seen the D-Mark. I had a two way splitter, split to two 6 way amps, split to a bunch of 3 and 4 way splitters. By the time I left she had one of the best pictures I'd ever seen on analog. Contractors don't care about the customer in my experience. They care about how many easy jobs they can knock out real fast. I'd hear them talking to each other at the office as I got my equipment from the warehouse every day, "Dude, I did 20 data installs yesterday!" --- sorry but if you knock them out THAT fast, something isn't being done right. ... and here comes the in house tech to clean up the mess. Having said that however, Cox does follow up on them and holds them accountable for mistakes. Some of them lose their contracts, but just because they lose their contract doesn't mean that there isn't a bunch of houses out there with mis-wired cable that they did. It's not like firing them fixes all the issues they caused. Also, prewired coax done by homebuilders is crap. Brand new houses I'd go to that were getting service for the first time... first thing I'd do is cut off ALL the fittings that they did and throw them and the crap splitters they used in the trash. Electricians know electrical, not cable. I really just wished that they would just run the lines and leave the fittings up to me, hell it would save themselves money too. They almost always did it wrong and it was just easier to do it all over and not risk a callback. Probably one of the reasons my callback rate was one of the lowest in the state.

For sure. They have to have at least a small force of in house techs. They at least have a group that follows up on some jobs done by contractors to make sure that they're doing things right. Usually they only sub out overflow and easier jobs. They also sub stuff like conduit installs (where they install a pipe from the street to your house for the cable to go in). I believe that it could. Eliminate the home network first, connecting the modem directly to the computer. If you see no improvement move on to the wiring. Could be the coax, could be the cat-5 from the modem to the computer (or to the router when you have it hooked up). Look for kinks in the coax. Coaxial cable needs to maintain the proper diameter. If the line has a big 90 degree kink in it the signal will actually reflect off the bends and echo inside the line. This is why when you see a line on the outside of a house going into the wall... there will be a loop of cable. It gives the tech a length to work with later on but it also ensures that there isn't a sharp turn. ... I also often saw where people had stapled to baseboards or under carpet and it caused problems. Either the staples pinched the cable or the cable was pierced by the carpet tack board... a tack or staple that's going into the cable is basically a miniature antenna that's leaking in outside signal. Which causes noise. Which will degrade quality. All things to look for. If the coax or cat-5 is questionable, swap it out. Also look at the connectors. The copper core should rise above the edge of the connector about 2-4mm... longer is bad, shorter is really bad. Looking down into the connector you'll see a white insulating core that surrounds the copper core. This is called a dielectric insulator. That should be flush with the base of the connector. If it dips too low or rises higher than it should be it can degrade quality. The coax cable should be RG-6, thinner RG-59 is far from ideal. If you have a wall plate that you're plugging into, check the connectors behind the plate as well as the barrel connector. If you get into that and see any gold fittings or the barrel connector is gold, call Cox. You may want them to rewire. Cable companies will never use gold fittings, if you see that it means that the cable company had nothing to do with how that line was run... which means that there may be more issues with that drop. Sometimes all it takes is a couple new fittings and a new splitter to bring you up to standard. Sometimes, like if the cable is RG-59 and copper insulated the whole line will need to be re-run. If you originally did a self install of your service and the cable company didn't actually do the install... you might be better off calling them out to check the lines. I assume that you've tried this on more than one computer and had similar results... right? Have you taken your home network out of the equation yet? What package do you subscribe to? Wasn't that Cox connection actually your neighbors, I was just talking to you in PM about that... right? If yes, how are you getting it over at your house, wifi? Is he seeing the same issue at his house?

First, welcome to TestMy.net and you're welcome! I'm glad you like what I've built. I've been at it for a very long time, building this site is my passion. If you're using NoScript or RequestPolicy or any other Internet security software you have to whitelist tmnstatic.com. I serve my static content through a different domain name for a couple of reasons. First, being under a different domain name it tricks your browser into opening more threads to load the page. This makes the page load faster. Second, it's served under a 'cookieless domain' so I cut down on request headers which saves a little bandwidth because the cookie information isn't added to the headers of all the requests on that domain name. If I didn't do that unnecessary cookie data would be added to the request headers for every request. So, you load the page and all of the images (for instance) would have extra unnecessary information added to every single request. This is a relatively small savings but extrapolated across so many images and other requests the savings starts to add up. Then if you extrapolate that over ALL of TMN's traffic... then it really starts to add up. I try to save as much bandwidth and requests as I can, it's easier on the client and easier on the server. I want my bandwidth to go to testing connections not loading pages. Things load much faster with the optimizations I have in place. ... unrelated but I also minify and gzip and cache whenever I can. Saving even more bandwidth and speeding up page loads. I also serve tmnstatic.com from a CDN, so when something is requested from that domain name you download the information from one of many datacenters that may be closer to you than TMN's home server. This speeds up loading time even further. If tmnstatic.com is being blocked for any reason... resources needed for the pages to load properly won't be loaded. So the page output will be totally off. ... obviously, tmnstatic.com is a trusted domain, as long as you trust TestMy.net. As long as you don't have a third party program blocking that and your browser is set to default settings you shouldn't have any problems. Every browser I've tested, under default configuration without add-on's like yours, has loaded perfectly for me. Even very old, outdated browsers.

What package do you subscribe to? With cable simply changing out your splitter can help. They go bad and can cause noise that will cause packets to drop. I'd also check the coax going into the modem and from the D-Mark (where the splitter is) to the wall plate (if applicable). Even the little barrel connector on the wall plate can do that. You're responsible for the wiring from the demarcation point on. Eliminate any splitters with a barrel connector and if you find improved signal, call Cox and have them come out to swap out the splitter. DON't BUY COAX components from your hardware store. There is a big difference between antenna and cable splitters. Antenna splitters won't pass the high frequencies needed for data... They also aren't shielded well... They don't need to be, it doesn't hurt an antenna signal to get bleed from the air... But cable components have to be shielded from that. Especially apparent if you hook an antenna splitter to analog cable... The picture ghosts because it's getting signal from the air and cable company and they're mixing. ...this bleeding happens across all frequencies. So, if you find that it's a bad splitter, outside your home, call Cox. If you want to buy it yourself you need to get one that passes 5-1000 MHz, don't buy gold components for cable... good for antenna, bad for cable. If they have to come in the house they may charge you for a service call so before you call. Make sure that your wiring is good inside before calling them. If you need a 2 way splitter or a length of cable you can pick these up in the Cox store. Just tell the rep that you have an issue and think that a new cable or splitter may fix it. They shouldn't charge you for it, they should just hook you up with one of their quick connect kits. If you need more than a 2 way, you have to call. That's the first things I would check before calling. You basically want to try to eliminate any variables, then add them back until you see the speed drop. Try to go directly from the wall to the modem, modem to the computer... better still is to go from the street to the modem like I said but it's not always an option. If you get improved speeds them you know that the problem has to do with one of the things you eliminated. ..... Note that everyone's wiring is different. For instance, sometimes you need to lower the signal on purpose. Super high signal levels are actually a bad thing. There is a happy medium. So for you to get proper signal levels you might need a splitter or a DC-6 / DC-9 to drop the signal levels. So eliminating some things may has an adverse effect. Don't be afraid to call Cox. They'll schedule the service call like they're going to charge you but if the problem is outside, your drop to the house for instance, they won't charge you. The tech should hook you up with anything that you think you might need, a splitter or cable for inside for instance. Here's a little trick to make sure you're being serviced by an experienced tech. When you call request an "in house" tech. There are subcontractors that are very experienced but there are also a lot of inexperienced ones too. They also often don't have tools and signal meters as good as the in house techs. Contractors want to get in and out and get to the next house to maximize the money they make. In house techs aren't as rushed and are more likely to pull out a pick axe to bury a new drop and go the extra mile to make sure your happy. They're also highly trained by Cox. I know this because I was an in house tech for Cox and ran on many calls to fix the things contractors did wrong. Saw it every day... But I knew some really good ones too. You're just better off with a real Cox tech. Used to be that they would only do installs it I've heard of them subcontracting for service calls too. Good luck!

Ah yes... But your provider does have control over that to a degree. They choose who they peer with. If they have crappy intermediate routes that they go through... Or the people they peer with do... Then actually, it is their fault. A provider with good peering that can route well across the net is a truly good provider. Not one that can only do that near by. No matter what they tell you... They DO have control over that. As much as you have control over your provider they do too, their peers are their providers. If one doesn't pull their weight, they shouldn't be using them.

Nice man... I'll have to give it a try. I haven't even tried IE 10 yet. I'm going to really get to know it before my next round of updates. How does the site look? Does it load and look the way it does in other browsers? Glad to hear it performs well for you.

You've got an awesome computer... that's probably not the problem. ... try testing to the Central server. That's the most powerful and best connected server I have. It's right smack in one of the biggest Internet intersections on the planet. Even though it's further away, you might get better results from there. Is that screenshot a torrent? Even if you can't achieve your full speed that doesn't mean that you can't still accurately benchmark here. Compare your results to your previous results. Using your Max speed that you've been able to reach as a benchmark to judge your performance on. Realize that TestMy.net is less forgiving than other tests... and is a single thread test (unless your modem does channel bonding). You might only be able to pull your full speed if you open more than one thread... which is what's happening when you download torrents or from usenet for example.

First, you can't compare Ookla speed test results to TestMy.net speed test results. Read Why Do My Results Differ From Speedtest.net / Ookla Speed Tests? to understand why that is. Many providers use those tests because they make them look better... Also, don't read too far into the location of the server. As long as you've got clean routes and things are running as they should be you can max your connection across the country. Testing with a server right next to you isn't really an accurate representation of your Internet speed. When you surf the Internet your more often going to be hitting servers further away. Your benchmark should be further away if you want to really put your connection to the test. Providers like to test you as close to home as possible because it eliminates many variables that you're here to test... therefor your speeds will be higher. That and Ookla tests also adjust the results to offset unknown variables... and muti-thread the test which can also lead to inflated results. You shouldn't need to muti-thread to pull your speeds. By their own admission Ookla drop the slowest 30% of the results... how can that be accurate? The bottom 30% of the results is important information and is what you're here to see... right? You can select Automatic Route from the top of the Speed Test pages to be routed through a CDN that will deliver the test from a location closer to you. Choosing that option you should be routed through Newark NJ. I see now that you've found the option for Automatic Route... and your results are very similar. How fast is your computer? TMN can be as much of a test of your computers speed as it is a test of Internet speed once you start to reach the speeds that you're reaching. Once you start getting into 50+ Mbps even your hard drive performance can be a factor because of the methods that TMN uses. I've seen on more than one occasion where a computer on a 50 Mbps connection was only able to pull ~20Mbps... swap out for a faster HDD or SSD and BAM, full speed. Other connection speed tests don't work this way. TMN is more of a representation of your browsers performance coupled with your Internet performance. If either is lacking in any way... your results will reflect that. ... but trust me... if things are as they should be, you can get some pretty insane results. My servers are very fast. The result below is testing at well over 2000 miles from the server... ... you don't need to test on a server close to you to be accurate. That's a misconception. A longer route, in my opinion, is a more accurate representation of your REAL speed. If your provider can't deliver your speeds at a distance, what's the point? The Internet is at a distance... it's the World Wide Web... not the New York Web. Right?