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If it hits 100% then regardless of the pause the timer has already been stopped. Once 100% is hit the time is stopped so any delay in transaction beyond that shouldn't effect the test outcome... unless there was a delay in your connection or browser at that EXACT moment. You may have a delay between the pages but the test has already finished before you're sent to the results... if you use the mirrors there is a little more delay in the transaction because the results are served from the central server. ... delays in the middle of the test are a whole different story. Those will obviously effect the outcome and should be addressed. I don't think this is a Chrome issue however, I test perfectly fine in Chrome on many different machines. If it was an issue with the browser it would effect everyone.

What's the test size when this happens? I test in Chrome ... or any browser ... and it runs smooth for me every time.

Hi k2000day, This has to be something specific to your Chrome installation. I don't know why this would happen, usually Chrome tests better on TMN than IE. You might want to try uninstalling and reinstalling Chrome, it may clear up the problem. Have you installed any extensions onto the browser?

I'm glad that we could help and that your connection is now improved. I hope that you tell your friends about TMN.

That would make more sense

I get crappy results... :::.. Internet Speed Test Results ..::: Download Connection Speed:: 2459 Kbps or 2.5 Mbps Download Speed Test Size:: 1.7 MB or 1728 kB or 1769472 bytes Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 307 kB/s Upload Connection Speed:: 1924 Kbps or 1.9 Mbps Upload Speed Test Size:: 1 MB or 1024 kB or 1048576 bytes Upload Binary File Transfer Speed:: 240 kB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13 Test Time:: 2012-11-13 14:44:52 Local Time Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/WdPmyIO.a1BVHxE More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/CA3LE https://testmy.net/compID/6436733977554 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_7_5) AppleWebKit/537.4 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/22.0.1229.94 Safari/537.4 [!] In contrast, result to the central, west and east servers

I tried it a few times... it probably works better now than when I tried it. Last time I tried it I concluded that I type far faster than speech recognition. I was spending more time going back and correcting things. Are you using the speech recognition in Windows 8 or some other software?

Hi WAG, First, I assume by your username that you're a Marine, thank you for your service. You're paying $761 USD per month for that connection?! Holy cow! It's entirely possible that you have perfect signal and still have slow speeds. You might be losing speed in International routing. You're only averaging 1/2 of your download and less than 1/6 of your upload. But your maximum download speed of 846 Kbps is acceptable for your 1000 Kbps (1Mbps) line. Generally 80% or higher of the advertised speed is a good number. I see that your connection improved quite a bit early yesterday. That upload however is still horrible. You should get no less than 200Kbps. A really popular Arabic DSL forum is adslgate.com -- if you use Google Chrome to navigate that site it makes it easier to translate to english if you can't read Arabic. A lot of people that use that site also use TestMy.net to test their speeds. Getting help from people in the region might prove more useful. I hope this helps. If you find a solution or reason for the problem could you please update this thread, it may help someone else in the future.

Maybe you've got a bad router...

I have a 12 year-old son too, turns 13 in March. They're truly the first digital generation. I'm 31 (in a few days), half of my childhood was non-electronic. We hardly even watched TV in my house growing up and even when we got a Nintendo in 1988 my Mom limited its use. I enjoyed playing outside, riding my bike in the Arizona desert and stuff. I think I had a much more enjoyable childhood as a result. I had friends who played video games all the time... the sad thing is... they still playing and don't have much to show for it. Your son may be healthier with limited connection. -- He can still play the offline aspect of the games, which is far less addictive than the online gaming. Yeah, the old games still hold up today. Some of the older 8bit games are more challenging than many of the games today if you ask me. Especially if you're playing them on the original consoles without a 'save' feature. I used to leave my Nintendo on for weeks on end with Mario Bros., Zelda, Battle Toads, Contra, Operation P.O.W., River City Ransom... etc. because you couldn't save the game. It was always an ultimate bummer when someone would shut it off or the power got tripped in a lightning storm and lost all my progress, "NOOOOOO!" --- the repetition of having to do it all over again makes you get very good at the game. The games today give you unlimited lives... there really isn't a "GAME OVER" ... back in the day when it said "GAME OVER" you usually had to start from the beginning, it really was GAME OVER. (unless you cheated to get more lives)... Then you've got Pacman, try to beat that... I dare you! Oh and you're welcome, I hate to be the bearer of bad news. I hope you like my site and pass it along to your friends.

And you tried using different browsers?

... ehhh... ouch. Don't quote me on this.. because I'm not 100% positive. But with 6/10th of a second of lag the game servers may be ignoring you. That kind of lag effects not only your own gaming experience but others that you're playing with. Here's a topic I found on Gamespot about Satellite Internet and Gaming -- note that the topic is from 2007 and today many of the newer games probably auto kick for high ping. You'll also see replies on that topic saying that your high ping doesn't effect others... but it does, if your character is lagging out and causing you to jump all over the place it will make you very hard to hit... making the gaming experience bad for other better connected players. Satellite is definitely not ideal for gaming. I'm sorry to say this... but you might not be able to play online games reliably on that connection. Unless you're able to rope the satellite and bring it closer to Earth there isn't much that you can do to improve that ping. The round trip delay of sending and receiving data into orbit is too great. I'm sure that there are games that you could play but FPS (first person shooters) are going to either ignore you, kick you once you connect or be so laggy that it's not fun. I've never tried to play on a connection with that much lag but I've played on servers with 300+ms lag and it really takes the fun and realism out of the game. Like I said, to combat that problem I'm sure that newer games (and updated older games) have an auto kick / ignore built in to keep the game fun for the majority.

That 2TB 7200 RPM drive should be sufficient. You really only see the hard drive speed effecting results when they are much slower. It happens when the hard drive speed is slower than the connection speed because the disk can't keep up. A good program to test your disk performance in OSX is Blackmagic Disk Speed Test -- free in the app store. Example, my girlfriends Macbook used to test at ~30Mbps with the original 160GB SATA... I swapped the HDD for a SSD and instantly it was able to max out the 50Mbps connection. Most people wouldn't associate HDD performance with network performance but in some cases it is a factor. So when you test through VM Fusion on the MacPro (that's getting 10/2 Mbps natively) you're getting your full speed?

Hey Shawn, So your Droid doesn't have any of those pauses that you experience on your desktop computer? Was the streaming issue on your computer or were you using a console? If you have access to another computer, a friends laptop for instance, it can aid in troubleshooting the issue. First, make sure that the computer you're using is reliable and fast. Connect it the same way that the desktop is being connected and test it. It sounds like you've troubleshooted the rest of the equipment the right way... you eliminated extra variables like the router and swapped cables and your modem. It's most likely the adapter or something software related in the OS. Especially since the droid isn't showing the same pauses. If you can't get your hands on another computer (or after you test on another computer and find improved connection) another thing you can do is buy a cheap (or a nice one if you think you might want to keep it) USB CAT-5 or wireless adapter (or PCI / PCIe... sounds like you're comfortable inside your computer). Make sure you buy it from a store that has a good return policy because you may or may not want to keep it afterwords, depending on the outcome. ... if you still have the same issue with a different adapter on the same computer then it may be something software related, again... trying another computer, hooked up the same way as your computer will prove that it's an isolated issue and not an issue with your provider, modem, router or cables. ... Let me put it this way... even if they cut your speeds... you shouldn't have pauses like that when you test. That's a major indication that there's a problem.

So, you get your full speed when the modem is directly connected to the computer? Are you using the same cable from the modem to the computer as you're using from the router to the computer when you hook up directly to the modem? I assume that this problem is seen throughout the entire network, right? It's not isolated to one machine? I think it's your router... but that doesn't mean the router is bad. Did you used to have it connected to a DSL service? Suddenlink uses a cable modem, right? The MTU (Max Transmission Unit) setting in the router may be set incorrectly, set for your old DSL service. Look for the MTU setting in the router and change it to 1500 (this is optimal for Cable Internet). DSL is usually 1496. It may be as easy as that. When I troubleshoot a problem like that I try to eliminate as many variables as possible. Sounds like you've done that by directly connecting the modem to one of your computers... and you found that the connection was improved. In my mind this points to the router being at fault (as long as you're troubleshooting the line with the same CAT-5 cables in both instances). Let me know if the MTU was the issue. I've personally seen this issue first hand when switching from DSL back to Cable. I've also helped hundreds of people who've found that's their issue as well. So it wouldn't surprise me if that's the issue.

On your computer that's connected to the same connection run ping to a few locations... let's see what you get. To ping a host... Windows Start > Run > type CMD [enter] > from the command prompt type ping google.com and/or ping testmy.net Linux / Mac Under Applications/Utilities open 'Terminal' > type ping google.com and/or ping testmy.net Paste those results here.

Are you positive that the Wii has connection to the Internet? If you don't already know how, here are instructions on how to browse the Internet from the Wii. http://www.nintendo.com/consumer/systems/wii/en_na/ht_channels.jsp?menu=internet&submenu=rvl-ht-chn-browse-internet First check to make sure that you can not only connect to the wifi but can also get some kind of useful connection and we'll troubleshoot from there.

I kinda forgot about this. But here's a follow up. I took pictures up close after they finished working on this. It's funny... the needles are just paint splatters, lol. It looks real when you stand back though. ... Unrelated... but check out this cool pic I just found on my phone. I always hold bees and other bugs... they never sting me. Well, once I got stung... but it was because it crawled between my fingers and I accidentally squeezed it a little and it stung me right between my fingers. But I don't count that because it really didn't mean to... more of a reaction to the pressure. ... after a long day of fixing bugs, I go outside and hold them. Go figure.

What do you think of Windows 8 in general?

Just to let everyone know who might not already know... you can hover over member names and click "Test Results" to quickly pull stats on members you meet in the forums. This link is also on the members profile.

Always so afraid of losing it all... the halmark of someone who's lost information before. Don't worry, I'll walk you through it over the phone. After, you can update this thread to let others know that it didn't hurt to rip the bandaid off. There has been a lot of updates since Natty Narwal (11.04). Ubuntu is on version 12.10 (Quantal Quetzal, they have weird release names). That's 1.5 years newer, imagine all the stuff they've learned in 1.5 years... give your computer those instructions! The process isn't going to restructure your file system... and if it was going to, it would let you know of the risks involved before doing so. No worries.

You say that you mean me no disrespect... then in the same breath you call my answer generic. Whatever dude. ... it can still be a problem along your route. I can test over and over and over and get the same results. It's NOT my server. You have a weak link across that route, doesn't mean that it always has to be weak... routers and networking equipment is just as likely to have intermittent issues as any other hardware. Other servers you've tested from won't necessarily have the same route. Even if the servers are close to each other they'll sometimes be routed differently on a few hops... all it takes is one bad hop.

It's not the server dude, it's your routing to that server. That's from over 2200 miles away. (lol, look at the first two and last two characters of the upload test ID... haha "P0njSRN") Here's a random result from someone who JUST tested. If you ever question the server itself you can simply pull the recent results to see that other people are not experiencing any problems... https://testmy.net/live --- if it was a problem with the server, it would be noticeable in everyones results. 999,999 times out of 1,000,000 it's your routing, not TestMy.net. You were made an inactive mod because you haven't been moderating. I've told you more than once that you don't just hold that title only to visit every so often. That's for people who are actively moderating... you weren't. I changed your status like two months ago... so if you're just noticing then that shows how much you were using it.

Personally... I love GoDaddy. 1000X better than who I used before them (enameco)... and 1,000,000X better than who I used before that (Network Solutions). Network Solutions was the worst and tried to make it impossible for me to transfer... "Uhhh, we need you to fax these forms..." "... we never got the fax that you sent us 10 times... try again." "...Oh we got your fax but we need these different forms now..." "Try again, we didn't get your fax." ... I'm like, UHHHH, it's the 21st century, can't I just email you this crap! Why do I have to jump through hoops to take something I own over to another company! At the time they were still charging $59.99/year or some crap. When I was finally able to pry Network Solutions greedy claws off my property. I took my domains over to enameco and they charged me $12.99/year... that's nearly 5X cheaper! It was like a big time scam, make it impossible to leave then charge a premium to the people who give up. I'm surprised those greedy f***s are still in business. ... i just checked their site, YEP... still greedy! They want 34.99 per year! HAHHA, HOW DO THEY STAY IN BUSINESS?! What the hell could they possibly provide that justifies that price!? I bet if you hop on the elevator to hell you'll see a button reserved for Network Solutions executives, just below the basement. At least GoDaddy has ethics. I'm sure you're just not talking to the right person. All my interactions with them have been very professional and they get things done and provisioned faster than I previously thought was even possible. Although I don't use any of their secondary services... just domain names and DNS. But I have helped other people with their accounts where they were hosting email services and it was pretty straight forward. You know what you should do for these guys... get them on Google Apps for Business... screw hosting email service yourself and why pay GoDaddy when you know that Google would do a better job. I've used the service for years, since before it was public actually, and I've never had a single issue. The @yourdomain.fart addresses you associate become Google accounts so they can be used to login to other Google services. It's a pretty simple DNS setup to get it going and you can get a free account for up to 10 users to give it a try. Depending on how many addresses employees they have it can be anywhere from free... to more expensive than GoDaddy's email. I think it's worth looking into. ... Man, Google really hooked me up for joining Apps for Business early. My account can have up to 500 users for free. They normally charge $5/month/user over 10 users.

I'll have ping and traceroute built in soon awesome speed!