CA3LE

Don't mind me

Like a computer hardware forum? I can make it if you guys fill it. I always thought we had one. A lot of the forum structure was created by our members. A power I may soon return to the community. Computerist ... Naw, I'm an equal opportunity topic employer. ... I'm even a NAACP member. The lesser known National Association for the Assasination of Computerist People.

I didn't notice that... ouch. That sucks. I notice that you tested to both the Dallas TX and Seattle WA servers. You should also try Washington D.C. ... even if it's further. See if you get around that same 10 Mbps... Where are you located? What's your OS and browser?

Ubuntu is great because there's a lot of support for it. Ubuntu will go down in history as the Linux district that made people take notice. But do you have a budget? If you do, you could get an old MacBook or Mac mini for a couple hundred bucks. Add a solid state drive and more memory later and even an old one will be contenders with some of the latest PC's. OSX is a great OS.

Haha, that's pretty funny. The card's all sticking out of the case with cat pee on it and this dude's playing Mario 64 on a "13 CRT... with frame rates 500 times what the eye can perceive.

What package do you have with Windstream? I'm going to guess the 12 Mbps package, right? You get good speeds for the package you have, for sure.

Welcome to TestMy.net!

I'm flattered --- don't forget to sign in dude! Otherwise it's hard to track your old results, it looks like your ISP seems to change your IP frequently. Not java... javascript. Big difference. The javascript used for the progress bar is very simple and can be handled by even severely outdated computers. If you're getting 650 kB/s and your sync rate is 804 kB/s you're right where you should be. Just over 80%. Obviously you'd like to see better but at those speeds I wouldn't be too alarmed either. I watched your video and the pauses aren't as bad as I was expecting. I've seen it before where it craps out for a couple seconds. Do you have home phone service? If you do, mudmanc4 is right... if filters aren't installed or faulty then noise on the line will drop your speeds. Check this out, it may help > Upgrade Your DSL Connection Using Filters -- Wikipedia information on DSL Filters -- Most DSL providers will provide filters free of charge. ... line noise could very well be why you see CRC errors on your modem status page.

You just joined the other day and already have 13,000+ posts! Warning points are dealt by mods and myself... but we haven't really used it. I pretty much just ban people without a warning if they're stupid. Actually, since we've had that I've only warned 1 person.

Well, I checked with my host to make sure that there wasn't congestion on their end. I pasted your route to them... ... So there isn't congestion in their route. Your route goes straight from suddenlink to networklayer (networklayer is within my hosts network) with no intermediate peers so if it's not on my end... it has to be on Suddenlink's end.

Oh, if I had a nickel for every time an ISP blamed my site for their shortcomings. They can say whatever they want. But the truth is... TestMy.net is unbiased in its results. The results you get here are a real world scenario not a best case scenario. The tests that your ISP sends you to is tested under best case scenario conditions. The funny thing is, Time Warner Cable says that this test is inaccurate... yet before they had their own test they used to send their customers here. Actually, I'm pretty sure that back in the early 2000's a tech support operator told us that TestMy.net was actually in their handbook, a part of their troubleshooting procedure. Think about this, they have the ultimate incentive to have you test your connection with as little variables as possible. A company like TWC can save millions in service calls by making you feel all warm and fuzzy when you use their 'approved' tests and score high. "Oh, the problem must be the websites you're visiting..." --- The truth is though, if you didn't feel like their results were BS you wouldn't have come looking for this site. Right? You can feel that your connection isn't right... correct? Speedtest.net self admittedly alters your results. They DROP the bottom 30% and top 10% of the results... to make up for the fact that flash isn't a good protocol to use for testing Internet speed. They also open 4+ threads... meaning that you're doing multiple downloads at once. Sorry, but a good connection with a quality route can max out with only one thread. It makes connections look better than they are. I can't see Time Warner's speed test (apparently it's only available to Time Warner customers... they must not want their test under third party scrutiny.). ...If their test is made by Ookla... the same is true because Ookla is the creators of speedtest.net. The results here have been trusted by MANY people for MANY years before Time Warner even thought of hosting their own test. Far longer than speedtest.net has been around. Choose to believe what you want to believe but realize... this isn't my first rodeo. Testing connection speed is all I do and I have no vested interest in making your connection look better or worse than it is. TMN has multiple gigabit (1000 Mbps) uplinks into one of the most powerful networks on the planet (currently over 2000 Gbps of available bandwidth, peering with over 25 Tier 1 providers... Time Warner actually peers directly with my host with 8x 10Gbps connection), hundreds of thousands of websites are hosted on the same network. If your speed is effected to TestMy.net, it's effected elsewhere too. ... Like I've said before. Which do you think is a more accurate portrayal of your speed? Testing from next door or testing where the websites you visit are actually hosted? Testing with a test that alters the results or one that doesn't? Having said that, your speeds aren't all that bad. Now, when you paid for 20 Mbps and got 10, different story. It would be better to see 80%+ of what they quote, which would be 40 Mbps

Yes, very well said RTB... having said that though, I do plan on offering a test that does this. Coast to Coast speed test that will give you an idea of your average speed nationally. I've actually already been building the backend with this in mind so that when I'm ready it will be relatively easy to piece together. So look for this in the near future. My provider isn't actually The Planet anymore, it's Softlayer. The Planet was awesome but Softlayer is far more powerful. They bought them out a couple years or so ago. DNS still resolves to the old name. After my next server upgrade the name should resolve correctly to Softlayer. Last time I upgraded The Planet gave me such an awesome deal it's been hard to beat it... for the longest time I went to their website and to make a comparable build it was like $1000/month. By the last time I got a new server I had been with The Planet for over a decade... so I was able to negotiate an awesome deal. Prices are coming down though so I'm thinking it's almost time for another upgrade. I'm getting at least 16 cores and solid state drives this next time around. It's going to be beast! queries so fast my users will be like ... Congested routes aren't something you want to compensate for in your results. That's valuable information... that's part of your performance. It often times doesn't effect your connection across the entire Internet... but if the congested route is close to home it can. If it's effecting your speed to TestMy.net's server.... it's effecting your speed to other sites as well. I purposely pick popular hubs that have high bandwidth. Let me put it this way, in the Dallas datacenter where TMN is hosted... there are 104,000+ servers. Some host single sites... some can host hundreds of sites on one server. These generally aren't small no name sites either, people with small sites don't tend to spend that kind of money on a dedicated server solution. ...... so, if your speed is effected to TestMy.net, you're speed is effected to other sites as well. The Coast to Coast test isn't going to be intended on compensating, it's more to give you a broader picture of your Internet speed.

First, welcome back! Been a while since you've logged in. One of the first 1000 members, I'm glad to see you're still visiting. Under certain circumstances the progress bar can lag... which doesn't effect the outcome of the test. I've seen this on VNC and on Android 2.x phones. When I've seen this it never pauses, then turns into a fluid progress bar (meaning that it moves smoothly). It will pause then JUMP... as if the browser couldn't keep up with the java used to update the progress. Regardless of how the progress bar updates the flow of data is uninterrupted. On the other hand you might have an issue that's causing this. If it pauses, moves, pauses... then the bar fluidly moves for the remainder of the test... I'd bet that there is something wrong. First thing I would check would be MTU. You're on Bell South, which is DSL (right?)... PPPoE. Which means that the optimal MTU for your computer and router is 1492. Optimal MTU for cable Internet and most other providers is 1500. When I was on DSL for a while I was having a similar issue... my equipment was configured for my previous cable connection (I'm back on cable and don't miss fiber DSL at all, okay... the upload was pretty awesome. My connection on cable is much more stable and is especially much better for gaming. Plus, my nick is CA3LE... lol.) and changing the MTU resulted in a drastic difference. Like night and day. Check this out... CA3LE March to April 2010 -- you can see where I fixed it and stabilized my connection. (note that some of the results in that query are unrelated... TMN didn't have the filtering and identifying options back then so I can't narrow the search down to exactly the related tests. Only pay attention to the Qwest.net results). It's a very important setting and can have a profound impact on your performance. An easy way to tune your TCP stack in windows is with Speedguide.net's TCP Optimizer. But your router may also need to be configured correctly for PPPoE, it may have an MTU setting or may just ask you what type of connection you have. If you're coming from a different provider it's pretty common for this to be incorrectly set. Here's a topic very similar to this one... Hanging while testing - I think his issue was resolved with a new NIC. So that could be the issue too. A little side information, TestMy.net is different than the rest. If you test on the majority of other Internet speed tests out there you may not see this effecting your results... because they've designed their tests to ignore the worst part of your results. I personally don't understand the mindset behind that, it shows where their interests lie... hint, they don't work for your best interest. TestMy.net on the other hand just calls it how it sees it. If there is a pause in the flow of information, it's reflected in the results. Say that you download a 10MB file and it takes 10 seconds. Let's say that there is an extra 2 second pause at the beginning of that download. You might not notice it because once the download starts to flow it's going fine...... but does that mean that the 2 second pause never happened? Hell no! Even though it might have happened without you noticing, it still happened. In turn effectively dropping your speed for that download by about 17%. Now, let's say that you were downloading only 1 MB at the same speed, then the issue is compounded and effectively drops your speed by about 67%. I've had users, especially satellite users, that tell me that I should design the test to start the time after the speed has picked up... but wouldn't that defeat the purpose of the test? If your connection has pauses and blips, that's important information to know. It's the reason that you came here... right? You might stabilize at 8 Mbps (in our theoretical scenario) but that doesn't mean that's your real speed. Issues that cause that kind of problem make a HUGE impact on browsing speed, VoIP, gaming... etc. Ignoring that crucial information is exactly what most speed tests do, something TestMy.net will never do.

Never mind, I saw your other post saying it was satellite. ... Have you tried to bypass the router and directly connect to one of the computers? Try that on your very best computer so that the router can be taken out of the equation. The router could have an issue that's causing it to drop packets so the first thing to do is test without the network. If your issue clears up... well then you know it's the router (could be a simple setting... or you could need a new one). If the problem persists we've got a deeper issue, we'll try to help you resolve. So Xplornet basically told you that they couldn't care less? Your VoIP was working fine until recently? -D

You may be getting routed through a route that's picking up the slack for some of the downed routes due to Super Storm Sandy. A lot of people started emailing me and posting since that happened. Many of which said, "... I started seeing slower speeds right after the Hurricane..." What state are you in? I see that you're testing only to the main server. You might want to try testing to one or more of the other servers. On the TestMy.net homepage at the top you can choose a different test server. ... this issue is intermittent and it's happening during peak hours so it must be routing. ... doesn't mean that the test is wrong. That's the speed you're getting to Texas... other servers you visit in Texas may or may not take the same route. But along the route to TMN you're hitting a snag. TMN's main server is hosted in a very popular location so this means that your connection is most likely degraded to many other sites as well. Let me know what you get to the other locations. -D ... by the way, WELCOME!

Are you using Xplornet's satellite or fixed wireless?

Good to see. Welcome!

Advertising baby! Bandwidth is cheap compared to what people pay for a slice of attention. How do you think TestMy.net has survived for so long without ever charging anyone? As long as people keep supporting my advertisers, I don't care how much bandwidth they draw. YouTube has massive bandwidth needs... but is also massively supported by advertising. Another thing to consider. YouTube, is owned by Google... Google created AdSense. People that post YouTube videos can link their AdSense account and earn a portion of the revenue from Google. So not only is bandwidth not a factor to them... they're making enough that they're willing to share profit... and give you the Lion's share. It pushes people to create higher quality content... Google is truly smart. ... Oh and how they store it. A lot of servers... across the globe. And a lot of memory.

The file that you're getting from Microsoft and Adobe is no doubt being served via CDN (content delivery network) so the file is served from an optimal location. TestMy.net is also served from an optimal location, where a lot of the websites you visit are actually hosted. Unless you specify a location you're tested from Dallas, TX. But if you're anywhere in the US this is a great, centralized testing location. The amount of bandwidth going through Texas is the reason TMN has been hosted there since the early days. Where are you located? I see that you haven't tried any of the other testing locations. Go to the TestMy.net homepage and try changing the server at the top of the page. Due to distances your speed will be different to the various servers. A significantly slower speed to any of the servers usually points to a problem with the route to that server. If you have certain configuration issues you'll see the same slow speeds to all servers. Here's my last tests https://testmy.net/st...q=6436733977554 This is a pretty typical result from my Cox Communications 50/5 connection. Sometimes I'm faster, sometimes I'm slower. These results were pretty expected and didn't send off any alarms that I had any problems. Will I be able to download faster or slower than these speeds... yes and yes. Depends on the server I'm taking the file from... also depends on if that download is multithreaded. (meaning it's split and opens more than one connection to download the file, TMN is single thread.... a good connection on a properly configured computer will be able to max on a single thread and shouldn't need multiple threads to max the speed... if you only achieve your advertised speed by opening multiple connections, you may have a configuration issue. [most likely MTU] This could also point to limitations of the provider or the provider limiting the consumer. Multithreaded speed testing is another way I think that many of the provider hosted speed tests make customers connections look better than they are. They often open 4 to 8 connections, then add the results together. Yeah, you may be maxing out your line... but why do you have to open so many connections to do that?) First tests were taken with SmarTest sizing. Then I did 50MB download and 6MB upload to each of the servers. As you can see, my speeds to Europe are slower. Which is to be expected given the distance. Below you can see a result taken around the same time from Seattle WA, which is a greater distance than I am from Amsterdam. So it doesn't always have to do with distance. It's the quality of the connections that you're routed through along those distances. Testing your connection to a further location is actually more of a test than close by. It's tells a lot about who your provider peers through and who those peers in turn peer with. It's my belief that the further out you can test and maintain quality connection... the better the connection and ISP. The Internet is everywhere, not just near by... you want a connection that performs at distance. ... Depending on where you are, you also may be effected by the aftermath of Super Storm Sandy. A lot of lines were cut and a lot of traffic was rerouted and in turn congested some routes on the east coast USA. Test to the other servers and you can get a better idea if you just have a bad route to the main server.

Damn... MS pisses you off pretty bad.

Looks pretty lame to me. While it was supposedly uploading it actually wasn't. I tried to test from one of my ubuntu servers remotely and it wouldn't even work. Tested at TMN at the same time... That's my true speed speed right now. I can only speak for TestMy.net. If you read the speed test legitimacy page you'll understand why the results here can be trusted. ...and why the other speed tests fail to deliver accurate results. Pay special attention to the "What About My Providers Speed Test" tab...

I haven't tried testing on any consoles for a long time. I'll post my PS3 scores later.

All of the mirror servers here are Ubuntu... I run RHE on the main server but next time I upgrade the home server I may change that to Ubuntu also. Very stable... Those servers have what feels like infinite uptime... Hundreds of days without rebooting or restarting any services. It runs great for a server environment. You're not a newbie... Haven't been for many years.

I don't think you're whining at all. Simply voicing your opinion, That's a big fail on Microsoft's part. Sounds like too big of a change. If users had the option to use the classic look then they could make the transition easier for users. I think it's pretty cool that the Windows 8 upgrade is only $39.99. Much more in line with what the price of an upgrade should be. They obviously learned that price point from Apple. Although OSX Mountain Lion upgrade 10.8.2 is only $19.99 ... IMO MS should price it at $19.99 ... Also cool that the upgrade price can be used from Windows XP, Windows Vista or Windows 7. OSX upgrade requires that you're running 10.6.8 or greater so you have to incrementally upgrade which in the end costs more. I personally run all Apple and Linux. I have virtual machines of pretty much every operating system but only use them for development purposes. OSX makes me much more efficient, I'm glad I left the PC world and got real computers. --- TMN has always run on linux. You really can't beat linux for website hosting.

You're the first person to get that. You just earned yourself a Sophist title. Including yourself only 26 people have earned that title. ... I've actually never seen anyone else do that. When I put that up I did so with the intention on giving the first person who mentioned it a Sophist account. I was going to do it in BASE64 or HEX but I figured that would take too long for anyone to get it. My Son put it as his location too, but I think I told him... plus he's already a Sophist. Sophist - The Greek word sophos, or sophia, has had the meaning "wise" or "wisdom" - Wikipedia Sophist. It's been a title we've had here forever and it's rare that it's handed out to anyone. It's more of a title than extra permissions. But it does give your account a few extra abilities... more maximum private messages, more attachments per post... and a bunch of other little extra stuff. It makes you look cooler too. Here's a list of the others that have earned this in one way or another.