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Still working on it... Washington D.C. server is online now... https://testmy.net/mirror -- just waiting on Singapore and Seattle to provision. I was able to setup the new image faster than the other Seattle server finished so I'm going to cancel that. I'll update this thread when it's online.

The question is... why are you getting poor results to Texas? There are A LOT of websites hosted there, to get poor results there is really bad. It does help having something to compare to. So I'm putting the Seattle and Washington DC servers back up. I'm going to take a little time to rebuild the server image. Once it's done I'll clone it to Seattle, DC and Amsterdam ... and I might as well put one up in Singapore too while I'm at it. I know there are tons of people in Asia, India and Australia that would get good use out of a mirror in Asia. Sorry that I took them down for a little bit. My new home server is significantly more expensive than it was before, on top of that I'm having to buy extra 5 TB blocks bandwidth to meet the demand, it's not cheap. But after a little time to let that settle in, I realize that I can justify the extra servers. While I'm putting that together I've got another server provisioning for you right now for you to use for the time being. I'll update this thread once it's ready. ...all I ask is that if you like the site, tell people.

You're testing your UK connection to servers all the way in the United States... switch to the Amsterdam server https://testmy.net/mirror -- International routes are often congested. But the results you've been getting here are accurately representing your international speed. Believe whatever makes you feel better I guess. But I can tell you this much... you're getting 13 Mbps to the middle of the United States... not 70 Mbps. If you visit lots of sites in the United States, then that's the speeds you can expect to get. Otherwise, try switching the server to one closer to the UK. speedtestnet and the BT test your mention both use flash and both are opening more than one connection. TestMy.net is single thread... because opening more than one thread can mask certain performance issues. A properly running connection doesn't need to open multiple threads to attain full speed. Now, if you hit a bottleneck that's only allowing 10 Mbps (for example) then you open more than one connection down that pipe... then you can still make the connection look good. But it's NOT really pulling those speeds, it's combining multiple threads into that one speed. Showing you your Max line speed but not really cluing you into any problems that may slow down a single thread download. ....You do have a problem at that distance, otherwise you'd score better. Doubt the validity of the speed test that's been around the longest... or start realizing that the other tests you've been taking are designed by the people who benefit by making your connection appear to be running right. You're not here to make yourself feel good about how fast your connection is. You're here to make sure it's running correctly. So that's what I show you. Speedtest.net which was started by a former ISP CEO and BT has a vested interest in making your connection look as fast as it can. I don't. Here's a couple things to read if you still doubt me. First, read this about flash speed tests and tests designed by Ookla (like speedtest.net). Why do my results differ from speedtestnet/ookla -- not only do they multithread as I mentioned above, they admit in their own wiki to doctoring results by as much at 30% to offset a poor protocol choice. ---- Now, I'm no scientist but I'm pretty sure that for an experiment to be valid, the results can't be altered. -- also read TestMy.net Legitimacy if you have a second. Cheers! - D

Down at the bottom... click mobile. Personally, I like the full site on any phone I use. I just hold the phone in landscape and zoom when needed. Once you switch it to mobile it will remember that until you clear your cookies.

See... no response. It was a bot.

Well, the easiest way to do this is to not delete anything... you never know, you might want to go back later and see your old results. Instead, filter your search by date. ... you've taken a lot of tests today but by tomorrow you can filter off your results from today and prior to only show the more recent results. You can also delete individual results by clicking the X to the right of the result in the list. Although, I don't allow multiple selection, so deleting 100+ results is a little annoying. One... at... a... time... I will be adding a reset and multiple selection in the near future. But right now, those are the options. ... Actually, one more option. Use Extra Identifiers, select a different ID for different speed test experiments... use those IDs later to filter your results to only the tests you want. The names don't necessarily need to be an accurate description, 'bedroom' for instance could just be a name you give your tests taken in Firefox. Future versions of TestMy.net will allow you to name your own IDs by the way. Selection is in a few areas of the site... but only available when using the default server in Texas Then filter your results to display only tests taken under that ID...

No problem... I appreciate the feedback and support. Thanks for visiting... Hope to see you around for a long time.

I don't think that they'd slow you down to get you to pay the bill. It may have been a coincidence. Maybe I'm wrong though. But I've never heard of a company doing that. They'll just shut you off if your bill is too late. Your welcome for the site by the way... I hope to see you back.

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Well, I can confirm that you've got a good testing server TriRan. I just pulled nearly 100 Mbps from that server to my house 375 miles away. So maybe Cox isn't bandwidth shaping... just has a route to Texas for me that's got a bottleneck.

They may tell that to the people with lower packages to get them to upgrade. What that is in my opinion is a clever salesman who's got access to the list of people going over the cap. Dude, I was in sales with them too. I used to go out on Super Bowl Sunday or NBA Playoffs with a list of valid customers... Find thieves and shut them off in the middle of the game. Half the time I'd just wait at the pedestal ... They were stealing cable, they knew right where to check... Lol. Made a lot of sales that way. My point is that it wouldn't surprise me if that's just a sales tactic.

Seriously, they said that?! Wow. With Cox you're not under contract. So they can deny you service for any reason they want to. I can't believe that customer service. When I worked for them they wouldn't stand for that. Did you email yourself the transcript from their site? You should email that to Cox. I bet that they will happily provide that information. You just talked to a temp... I say temp because people that treat customers that way don't last long there. "I didn't make the website..." How effen rude. Also, when I was with Cox they had caps... but they rarely enforced them. It was more in place to give them a reason to ban people that are abusing connections. They can tell if your traffic for instance is heavily torrents. If you're seeding a bunch of movies... Yeah, they're going to see that you hit that cap and investigate. Case by case. I have months where I pull 1-2 TB on my Cox Ultimate. But it's legitimate traffic. I've never hear a thing from them. ... Here's a tip, if you do download torrents, don't seed. Turn the upload settings down to one thread and 1 kB/s, some clients 0 will mean unlimited. They go after the upload abusers... not the people who are legitimately using their connection. Someone in Vegas was just talking about that system being more strict. Telling him that he'd have to get more than one connection if be keeps it up. I've never had an issue and my connection is constantly over that 'cap'. That's maybe why they don't mention it anywhere... it's not really a rule. ... I don't know for sure if it still holds true today, it's been 13 years since I was told this information. But when I asked my boss at Cox he told me this stuff. It's not a rule it's just a red flag, basically. They will at least give you a warning if it does become an issue. They WON'T shut you off automatically or anything. I promise you that. As long as you're not abusing your connection.

Well... your upload is all of those numbers -- you're seeing how the browser choice effects upload speed to websites. I recommend that you test with the browser that provides the fastest result. The fastest result is going to be closest to your actual speed... the slower speeds are being caused by browser inefficiency. As you've just displayed this isn't only a Internet speed test... it's also a great way to benchmark performance between browsers. --- other speed tests out there don't work this way because the plugins that they use bypass much of the browser... imagine that a flash or java speed test is actually a program within a program. Truly, you're running the test through Flash or java protocol, not really the browser. The browser in that instance is merely a frame holding the third party program... that in turn can cause the test to miss MANY common issues that slow down your browsing experience. What I show you is the speed at which things load in your browser. I could have made it a thousand different ways but my thought was that the average Internet user is spending their time in the browser. Also, testing outside of the browser requires either a program running outside of the browser, Flash or Java. Flash... is faulty, Java inconveniences people who don't have it and so does downloading and installing programs..... so I built mine with PHP and HTML5 so that people could just load the site and do what they came to do without frustration. I aim for 100% compatibility with a single program. Others do it differently... all I know is that time and time again TestMy.net passively detects physical issues that others fail to pick up on. Some of the things I've seen and heard it do have amazed and baffled me... and I wrote the program! I don't get how it does it sometimes but it does. The forums here are littered with accounts. I also know this, if everything is in order and running correctly... you'll max your connection out here. TestMy.net is just a much harder test to ace but isn't that what a benchmark should be?

What browser are you using? Cox just upgraded my Ultimate to 150/20 too (It's only $99.99 here, it was 94.99 before the upgrade)... I'm still only getting 50 Mbps. But I know my connection is on fire fast right now. I download from Giganews I get 11.5 MB/s which is 92 Mbps. ... to achieve that however I have to open 50 connections. TestMy.net is not a multithreaded speed test. And trust me... you don't need it to be. I've regularly seen over 200 Mbps from thousands of miles out from the server. When you test elsewhere they multithread the test, they also often test you automatically on a server that's too close to you to be a true test of your speed OUT to the Internet. Your Internet isn't being served from within your city or state... why should you test it there? (my opinion but many agree). It ends up making connections look better than they might actually be. I've made this test to try to keep ISPs honest and consumers informed. ... I'm on the same package as you man. I'm not seeing 150 Mbps either, anywhere... TestMy.net's results are just more pronounced than other tests out there........ that's because it's showing you that you AREN'T getting what they advertise. Blatantly. I'm seeing about half of the advertised upload. Confirmed by uploading to various sites including YouTube... actually often got worse results than my upload speed tests here. Don't get me wrong, the connection is fast... but it ain't no 150/20. Cox is definitely the best game in town so I'm not going to complain about it either. The competition in Phoenix in CenturyLink... who HAS to still be digging their asses out of the rats nest of twisted pair that US West left behind from before Qwest came in and tried to clean it up. I opened one of their pedestals by mistake (when I was a cable tech)... I took one look at it and thought to myself, "F*$& THAT JOB!" ... seriously it looked like tens of thousands of twisted pair with no rhyme or reason, you definitely needed a toner to do that job. And they're still running Internet through that crap, no wonder they can't get over 40Mbps still and half the people that want that are told, "Sorry, not in your area... we have 12 Mbps in your area." BAH HA HA, it's 2013 and the competition has 150/20Mbps ....... wait ... or do they. -- even if Cox was only 40 Mbps it would STILL be better than DSL. Unless it's fiber to the house DSL the latency on coax is far superior. Way more stable connection in my experience. DSL pissed me off, felt jittery in comparison. Not nearly as smooth. Plus D5L6UY doesn't have the same ring to it as CA3LE6UY. Every other package I've upgraded to in the past has performed over what they state. This time it didn't even feel like an upgrade (was 50/5 before), except when I multithread on Usenet or torrents. I'm convinced that I'll never see that speed on a single file download... ever. But other speed tests out there make it seem like it would get close... it won't. And trust me it's not for lack of bandwidth on TestMy.net's end, the home server is a monster with 2000 Mbps of connectivity in what many consider to be Softlayer's most well connected datacenter... It's also not for lack of the test technology being able to do it, like I said before there are tons of people including myself who've seen well over 200 Mbps. What is it then? I think it's our host limiting us, shaping the way our bandwidth can be used. It's called traffic shaping or packet shaping ... they're doing a form of bandwidth throttling. This is the first time I've seen it first hand on my own connection and I haven't fully confirmed this with anyone from Cox, but I will. I haven't worked for them for like 9 years but I still have good friends there that can give me the inside scoop on this if they know anything. If I find anything I'll write something about and pin it (means it will stay at the top of the forum) in General Discussion. Cheers! -- thank you for your patronage, I hope you like what I've built.

Wow, that's an awesome box you've got. I'm glad that you didn't complain about not being able to max out that bad boy on TestMy.net... it's really hard to max 1Gbps on a single thread test with < 200MB test. As I'm sure you've noticed, when you're at that level of speed you're pretty much only going to pull max speed if you multithread. Even though I have 2000 Mbps on the other end. With SCP transfer, a large file and perfect conditions you might get close. But within the browser, at least right now it's hard to do. Maybe browser limitations that will change in the future. Where is the box located? Are you doing VNC or something? ... It's pretty crazy when you see that much data being transfered that quickly. It took you only 6.5 seconds to download 185MB and 2 seconds to upload 33MB.... by the way, for your speed, my max upload file size is too small, I'd bet that your upload is in reality totally symmetrical with the download but when you burst the largest test in 2 seconds ...you really need more time to get an accurate reading. I'll be increasing that in the future. Thank Zac. I've been at it a long time... I've got much more in store. I hope that you stick around to watch it develop.

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.