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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!

Very nice

Cool... I got 6... I leave my browsers vanilla.

So the virus popped something on your screen wanting $200 to fix it?

No problem... thanks for your patronage. Also, thank you for your service (I assume you're in the military because of your avatar). Also realize this about speedtest.net... it was created by the former CEO of Speakeasy, a large ISP. So who do you think those tests are designed to benefit? The consumer or the ISP? ... personally, I work for the consumers best interest. I could care less if I make the ISPs look bad. I'm only holding up a mirror. --- Their test is designed to throw away the bottom and top of the results, they say, "The fastest 10% and slowest 30% of your results are DISCARDED" ... the information that you need to know is in that bottom 30%... I don't understand how it could be accurate if it's being adjusted. It's not a benchmark... it's a way of ISPs masking their shortcomings and making consumers feel that the problem they feel has to do with the websites they're visiting. Most of the provider hosted speed tests run Ookla software... the creators of speedtest.net. .... then people come here and wonder why they're getting very different results. It's because I'm telling you the truth. ... and the truth is, if you didn't feel that something wasn't right with their results you would have taken them at face value and wouldn't have kept searching for the REAL speed test. Right?

Welcome WadeG It's quite common for people to have higher reported speeds on flash speed tests or ISP hosted speed tests (which are also usually flash). Read https://testmy.net/ip...la-speed-tests/ and https://testmy.net/legit-speed-test.php --- TestMy.net is a more realistic representation... not a best case scenario. TMN also doesn't have to adjust your speed to offset an unknown variable. Something that speedtest.net themselves admit to doing, in their own wiki. How can a test be accurate if it's being adjusted to offset a number that's unknown. It's laughable... and novelty. TMN is a true speed test.

I believe Comcast's Blast! package right now is 30Mbps download and 4 Mbps upload. So you're right on target. You should give the west coast server (Seattle WA) a try too. (following that link will change your default test server to the west coast server, you can change the server at the top of the page... on all pages here except within the forum) That's a very nice rig. Sure, post 'em up. Start a new topic, under the "Show off your speeds or computer" forum.

Heads up... I rewrote the copy to clipboard function on the results page in v13 this morning. nJoy!

What package do you subscribe to? What city and state are you in?

No problem, thanks for visiting... I hope you stick around. I have much more in store for the future.

If you click "Your Results" in the main menu... Below the graph you'll see sharing and exporting options... Below that you'll see a list of the results in your query... Click "Share" to share a single score. There are also sharing options on the test results page immediately after you test. Just click the tab that says "Share This Result".

Clonezilla's supposed to be good... but you don't have to pay for Carbon Copy Cloner either. You can if you want to but it's done the job for me before without having to pay.

Agreed... I've used Carbon Copy Cloner a few times and it works great, it's for Mac. In Windows there's Norton Ghost and PC Disk Clone X.

Wow, really nice result..

Alright Chris, I've got an EU server for you now. http://eu.testmy.net -- visiting that link will change your default server to Amsterdam, Netherlands. You can also change the server at the top of the page... (on the speed test side of the site, not the forums) ...and on the testing pages. ... If you spread the word I'll be as grateful as you are.

No problem. I appreciate your patronage. It's almost online...

Update: It's provisioning... west coast will be down during the transaction because it's copying off that server. ... I should have probably done it off the DC server because it's closer and would have been faster. But more people use that server so I didn't want to inconvenience them.

Hey Chris, I had a server in Amsterdam for a little while but I had to back it off and focus on the US at the time. ... having said that... it's time to reopen that avenue. I'm configuring a server in Amsterdam as we speak. Should be ready for testing in a couple of hours. I'll update this topic when I'm finished. - Damon

First, I wanted to give you a warm welcome. Pgoodwin1's reply means a lot more coming from him that it does me. Obviously I'm going to tell you that I'm the best out there... Just know this much, I've been testing Internet speed for nearly 17 years now. Nobody has dedicated as much time to this subject as I have. TestMy.net itself has been around since 2002 and hundreds of millions of tests have been ran here. ...I don't advertise the service, it's spread by word of mouth. People use this tool, keep using it and tell their friends for a reason. In addition to the text on the homepage please also look into Speed Test Legitimacy and Angola Speed Test ... those links will provide additional information on the methods used here and what sets this site appart from the rest... as well as information pertaining to international tests. Thank you for your patronage.