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Nice... I'm going to have to play with that.

People like him keep me on my toes... but as I said before, I can debug for days on end and it's never as good as the bug checking that putting it into production does. My users are awesome. I'm glad that people take time out of their day to report issues when the arise. ...and there's no getting around bugs... it's the nature of software development. I've even seen Google bug out many times over the years... I even saw a 404 error on Google a couple weeks ago. That just proves that nobody is perfect.

I put it up for fun... some people said they preferred it so I threw it up. But it only gets about 1/30th of the traffic of the main site so I guess people realized that more had changed since than they thought... and they now continue to use the new site. ... very cool that it helped catch a bug though.

I have a bunch of these awesome iGoGreen rechargeable alkaline batteries... but I need to get more. The good thing about those is they're 1.5v not 1.2v so for my wireless headphones they are especially good and help deliver more bass... but many other devices benefit from the full 1.5v too. I highly recommend that brand, they've been working great for me for the past 8 months or so... I intend to buy more from them.

No problem... thank you for visiting. I hope you help spread the word. -D

Welcome to TMN cst1992! Your connection has to travel a long way to get here... But I think you should be able to get more. I hope you get it sorted. I hope that you provide your insite if you see any questions here that you can help answer. We always can use more smart people. Me too... I love my users and I hope that it shows.

Hi Joe, You actually don't email the page... email the link. Just send them the following... https://testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=08312012&x=21&l=250&q=Bakerjm [/CODE] [size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]I actually may have found a bug... funny that that wasn't doing it for me, no matter how hard I tried but I'm used to weird stuff like that.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=arial]See the screenshots... [/font][/color][/size] [size=4][color=#000000][font=arial]If you click export to CSV is should generate a file NOT copy to clipboard. But the other buttons are intended to work that way. I'm going to go into extended detail on how all the sharing functions work, I share these questions with my community.[/font][/color][/size] [size=4]First enable sharing by clicking "Share & Export"[/size] [size=4]You will notice that under the MAX and AVG there are buttons that say Bare Image and BBC code. Those will copy text to your clipboard that you can then paste wherever you'd like... that then creates an image on the fly. If you didn't specify date or days those images will automatically update as you test at TMN.[/size] [size=4][color=#666666]Bare Image URL is simply the image URL, unformatted.[/color][/size] [size=4][color=#666666]BBC Code or Bulletin Board Code generates the proper formatting for pasting into most forums online.[/color][/size] [*][size=4]To share the entire page/query click "Share This Query" and the page URL will be copied to your clipboard. [color=#999999]I do it this way because you can't always just copy the URL from the address bar... If you just click "Your Results" you can but if you've specified date or days the URL in the address bar will direct you to the member stats page instead. I could make it where people could copy the address bar but using the link provided by "Share This Query" also makes the URL shorter by renaming variables and removing unnecessary variables in the URL... the URLs would be very long if I didn't do it that way. In the near future when I rewrite the sharing functions I'll be including a url shortening service that will make the URLs super short (e.g. [i]testmy.net/Bakerjm/q1[/i] instead of [i]testmy.net/stats/?&t=u&d=08312012&x=21&l=250&q=Bakerjm[/i]).[/color][/size] [*][size=4]If you want to export your results for your own database manipulation or whatever click "Export CSV" and that will open a program that pulls your specified query and outputs a CSV file.[/size] [*][size=4]Copy to clipboard function requires flash. If the buttons don't copy to your clipboard you can always select the text below the button and copy manually.[/size] [size=4]I'm fairly sure the link for CSV export works for you now. Please let me know either way. Something looked to me like it had a possibility of crossing... just funny when it doesn't happen in every instance. You're the first to mention this and I haven't reworked that since about February... so it was definitely not happening very often. But really, if I was you... I would just send them the link. They're going to be able to visually process the information much easier by seeing the graph... CSV is just raw data. [color=#000000][font=arial]By the way, Thank You for your service to our country.[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=arial]- Kind Regards, Semper Fidelis,[/font][/color] [color=#000000][font=arial]- Damon Mueller[/font][/color][/size]

I still haven't found a way to fix the address bar for you... ... I did however find a secret debugging menu. Close Safari... open terminal and paste the following... defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 1 [/CODE] Results in a new menu like this... Obviously to revert the changes use... [CODE] defaults write com.apple.Safari IncludeInternalDebugMenu 0 I'm sure that if we figure out the correct variable we can write the change to fix the address bar the same way. The question is... what the hell is the variable?! So lame that you can't view source... unless I missed it somewhere. Geeze, at least put that in the debug menu! Apple is inconveniencing a lot of programmers with this move. See...

Yeah, the new Safari pisses me off too. I can't seem to find a way to view source. What the hell... I guess they don't want developers using their browser anymore. It's a total pain in my ass now!

I took care of this for you... if you don't mind I'd like to keep the post. It may help someone with the same issue find this topic in the future because of the keywords it contains. -D

Hi Bakerjm, I was just able to download and open the csv file created by the export function on my own computer without an issue. The file created is a simple CSV or comma separated value file. There isn't much to go wrong there but weird things can always happen. If you're having a hard time opening in excel you could try opening with any text editor. Send me the file that the site created for you and I'll look into it and see if there's an issue. Another thing to try is to just share your stats URL with them. >> https://testmy.net/quickstats/Bakerjm -- If you want to only send them a small portion of your stats you can query your stats using any of the filtering options (for instance, by entering "21" days)... once you've got your query locked in and the page is showing the stats you want to share click the "Share & Export" button, then click "Share this Query". An example of this, outputted from my own stats results in the following URL >> https://testmy.net/st...7&l=250&q=CA3LE which you can then share with your provider. This way they're able to see graphs and everything that you see. The export function is only raw data in CSV format and has no graphics. If you want to share your last 21 days going back from today here's the link https://testmy.net/st...l=250&q=Bakerjm Let me know if this works for you, - Damon

Hi Paul, I'm in Phoenix Arizona, USA. But my servers are located in Dallas Texas, Washington D.C. and Seattle Washington... right on top of some of the most powerful trunk lines on the Internet. If you're not near one of these states it's not a bad thing. These locations were hand chosen because these are locations where many other websites host... therefore, I believe, providing a more realistic evaluation of your connection speed. Texas, especially, is like a central hub to the United States data communications... this is why I choose to have this as the default testing location and where TMN's home server resides. As I always say... Do you want to know what your connection speed is to your neighbors house or to where other websites are hosted? I personally could care less what my speed is inside of my hosts network or within my state... in comparison to the locations I've chosen, nobody hosts in Phoenix... so why would my speeds to locations in Phoenix matter? This is why I have a hard time understanding the mentality of some other speed tests on the market. I also strongly believe that ISPs are sending their users to these internally hosted test to mask their peering short comings. "Look, your speed is juuuust fine... must be the website your visiting." -- BS! My aim with TestMy.net is to educate people and expose this malpractice. - Cheers, - Damon

Very interesting... Yeah... about 8 years ago I was reading something and saw that word. I wanted a deeper understanding of what it meant so I looked it up... then I thought, that would be a cool title to give to cool people. Been using it ever since.

Awesome, DSLReports has a lot of great members and information. ... I appreciate you sharing your knowledge. Not many people take the time to do that these days. -D

Well, I feel better knowing that there was an issue with your download speed as well... because this bug didn't effect the download test. ... dang, scary time to fly. I think I would have rather flown in an analog plane at that time. I guess having two redundant software systems only helps if one completely fails... not if there's a bug, because if there's a bug in one, there will be a bug in the other one too. Right? Sometimes I wonder how much more a comercial airliner, for instance a 737, weighs due to it's redundancy... and how much extra fuel is spent each year for unnecessary redundant systems... systems only in place to make the consumer feel safer. You worked in that industry... do you feel that it's a little over redundant or do you think it's just right because of the nature of what's being dealt with. I mean... does everything really need a backup? Is it, to a point, being done to make consumers feel safer about airline travel? In all fairness, you caught this bug before anyone else... I've promoted your account to sophist. I'm going to tell you the same thing I told Smith6612... Cheers! -D

I knew there was another topic on this I needed to reply to... I just lost track of where it was. Actually, I hate to say it but there was in fact a bug that was discovered. Had had to do with the character set being misinterpreted. I should have caught it sooner. https://testmy.net/ip...ad/#entry336113 It doesn't mean that you didn't have an issue... but it was definitely being exaggerated in the results because of the character set issue. What actually helped to catch this bug was that the member who posted the topic above tested on old.testmy.net and compared the results. Which were out of line. That site is static and doesn't change... the main site however is constantly being developed and bugs are bound to happen during that process. This one was such a small thing but the impact was great. When you contacted me I wasn't expecting to see a bug because there no heavy development on the upload test since my last waiting period. I start and stop development on different sections and put them under a period of waiting so that any bugs can surface... in this way I can know, "okay... no bugs... keep building." or "I've got a bug, much be something to do with the last round I did on that script." -- I have a lot of code and I've found that's the way that works best for me... with the smallest impact on my users when there is a bug. ​I dismissed it as a problem with your connection because nobody else had said anything. The problem was that the character set wasn't being necessarily changed by the code... some kind of update to the apache server was fooling with it also. This was only effecting the upload test by the way. And I don't think it effected everyone... under some circumstances it may have been defaulting to the intended character set. Apparently I had some reading to catch up on about some new standards that were coming down the pipe regarding character sets... programming is constantly evolving and adjustments need to be made, this is why I can never stop building. Other websites out there wouldn't have big a problem with this issue, they might have a few characters on the page show up incorrectly but not really a big deal. Only hackers and geeks use 8bit characters when they type. But because of the nature of what TMN is doing to your browser during the test something like that had a big impact in this situation. The cumulative difference of all the characters of the test information being misinterpreted by your browser obviously impacted results. This is now being basically hardwired into the configuration via .htaccess so it can never happen again... unless I accidentally delete that file, but trust me... if that happened the whole site would be messed up and it would be a very obvious problem. I'm really sorry if the results confused you or caused you any trouble. I make mistakes sometimes but I always learn from them.

No problem, it's what I do... ... see I sensed that you were knowledgeable. That title is well deserved and I don't just hand those out. Out of 86,000 registered members only 23 hold that title and only 35 have a higher title. I hope you stop by from time to time and provide your insite... lots of people with connection problems and we're much smarter and can solve much more as a collection of minds. -D

Hi Scott, Actually, I'm in the middle of building this. Everything is essentially built but it's for my own use... I'm packing it up for configuration and use by others and should start offering it soon. You'll be able to use my exact testing engine but you'll have the ability to brand it for your company. I will have a free, ad supported version and a paid version with more controls. This will be able to be ran on any server with php and mySQL support. I personally have always run linux with apache and mySQL so that will be the preferred setup actually. I have a few things to do before I can release this. I want to build an admin control panel so that people can build it the way they want without programming knowledge. I then need to compile the code so I am sure that my intellectual property is protected. I'm willing to release my code for others to use but only if I'm still holding the keys. I have truly unique methods and I've worked most of my life on this so I obviously don't want people to know how I do everything. So Zend or SourceGuardian will also be required to be installed on the host server... not sure yet which I will use. Both have loaders that are free, with simple installs for anyone with enough knowledge to want to host a speed test. Give me some time, it's my top priority right now. I have a long list of ISPs and individuals that have requested this over the years. I'll add you to that list and as soon as I've made it available I'll contact you to let you know. Cheers, - Damon Mueller

Hi Cara, This has to be an issue with your browser. Localized to your computer. Some people actually report higher upload speeds with IE... but some report slower. It depends on your specific configuration. If your install of IE has a lot of plug-ins, one or more of them may be interacting with your browsing experience negatively. IE is susceptible to many issues that other browser aren't. I highly recommend Google Chrome or Mozilla Firefox as they don't carry the same burdens... they are simply put, better browsers. I have recommended IE in the past but today that's not the case, I really can't back that browser today. Not only does it have those problems it also reads and processes programming completely unique to all other browsers. This is a pain for us programmers because it makes us almost have to design everything twice. What this means to the end user is that you're going to visit some websites and not experience it as the designer intended. Late last year before the release of IE9 I had a telephone conversation with the Senior Product Manager at Microsoft that's responsible for this stuff. I asked him why they don't support webkit as well as other things. He basically told me that programmers should be programming the way that THEY want. I'm sorry, it doesn't work that way. So, instead of providing backwards compatibility to make things look right, like Chrome and Firefox do Microsoft expects people to program specially for them... they want to be the standard. I believe that they've got it wrong, because there is no encompassing standard... there are standards but they can't expect every webmaster to completely follow exact standards... and if they decide to program for webkit browsers and don't also include commands for trident, then the users experience is lacking in design elements and things can be misaligned and misplaced. IE is too strict... and it's slowing down the development of the Internet. I understand making it strict to aid programming in writing clean code but I think it's wrong to push those errors to the end user. Chrome and Firefox go as far as correcting minor errors so that the end users experience is as good as it possibly can be. IE used to be awesome, don't get me wrong. But unless they start listening to the people who are building the Internet... they will continue to lose market share. I'm already, for the first time in my history, starting to see less IE users than other browsers. Chrome 27.82% Internet Explorer 27.49% Firefox 24.34% Going back two years... Internet Explorer 41.68% Firefox 34.42% Chrome 12.55% Going back farther IE has been as high as 85%. I have a lot of traffic that spans the globe so my sample size for those numbers is quite large and is a good representation of Internet traffic as a whole. Microsoft is losing. Unless they change their mentality it will continue. I recommend jumping ship until they come out with a version worthy of your use... almost any browser is better right now. I hope you like my site and share it, I grow by word-of-mouth only so I appreciate people spreading the word for me. - Kind Regards, - Damon Mueller

Hello Volker, I wish I had a team. - But I'm solo on this. So what's most likely at fault is international routing. You're hitting a bottleneck along your route. My servers are all in the United States and your connection has to traverse the Atlantic Ocean to reach me. Having said that, your speeds really aren't bad. I've seen people cross that distance on 100Mbps + connections with little degradation but they're usually on better connected networks, not home connections. If all goes to plan I'll soon be releasing my software to anyone with a web server. Once it becomes available there will be mirrors using my technology spanning the globe. For now you might want to try testing off my Washington D.C. server... it requires less hops to reach German and may improve your speed... but the bottleneck is most likely crossing the Ocean. BUT, if you visit a lot of websites in the United States this is a more accurate representation of your speed than it is when you test closer to home. Compare your speeds to others in Germany and you'll see that you're doing very well... not many people get those kind of speeds from that distance. The fact is, international Internet routes are hitting a breaking point. Too much traffic and not enough bandwidth so often the peering crossing the atlantic is poor... I think that in some cases the bottlenecks are in place intentionally... to limit consumers in an effort to alleviate the load. The point to my website is that I'm trying to bring this information to light... hopefully one day improving the situation. Because theoretically you could pull your near full speed given any distance... as long as the providers and their peers are delivering the bandwidth as promised. Cheers, I hope you like what I've built and share it with your friends, - Damon Mueller

Ahhh, it's sooooo much better now! I just wish I would have taken the time to fix it a long time ago. I might have used the remote more up until this point. I got it and it annoyed me so I kinda forgot about it for a while. I've got my Mac mini in my living room right now and have been watching a lot of movies on it so I was like, "THAT'S IT! Time to fix this!" -- I have my Mac's speak dialog box info so even though it was popping up behind my movie it was like, "Excuse me, iTunes needs your attention." -- "AHHHHH! Son of a..." -- made even more annoying because I had the batteries out of my trackpad and keyboard (baby needs are eating up all my batteries... I need to get more in the mix). So I had to pull out the laptop or run to my iMac and remote desktop to fix it... screw that! I just wanted to pause to get a damn drink and now I've wasted all this time... I knew there had to be a solution. Just disappointed that Apple doesn't just put an option in the system or iTunes preferences.

Wow, I haven't been this confused for a loooooooong time (that's a lot of O's) ... seriously dude, thanks. I fixed the problem but I'm still unsure of what the hell was causing this to happen. Apparently my request for a binary character set was being ignored on the first request, once it had been loaded one time the browser then decided to acknowledge. I've never seen this happen... it may have something to do with a few server changes I just made. But I reverted those changes and I was still seeing the issue... maybe I made more changes than I can remember. Who knows. All I know is that I worked around it by using an alternate method to tell your browser what character set I want it to use... viola! The thing is, if the browser interprets the data using the wrong character set the data being sent or received becomes jumbled... resulting in more data than was actually there... because it replaces 8 bit characters with it's own representation of the characters I intended... always resulting in more data. That's the best way I can explain it. I probably wouldn't have noticed that for a while because it only occurred when cache and history was cleared... most likely, unless I was really paying attention I would have dismissed the lower first result as a fluke of the connection being used. So again, thanks... you're awesome. I truly rely on members like you to debug this stuff. I can debug until I look like a zombie... but it is never as good as what my users can do for me. I simply can't catch it all... at any given time I have 5 or more aspects I'm working on. By doing what you did you were my extra eyes, you did a very good job of illustrating the issue. I was following the tests as they processed (on your meter off to the left) and I was thinking, "Okay, we're at about an average of 610-650Kbps..." then a totally unexpected result. On re-test, the expected result. WHAT! Like I said, I still have no idea what the root of this was. All I know is that it's fixed now. It HAS to have SOMETHING to do with the overhaul I did over the past 24 hours. Which increases the efficiency of how things load here...

Hi Smith6612, welcome to TMN! So... there actually was a bug that would have caused that but it was resolved a few days ago. Check it out... ... 4 kB/s fluctuation between tests. I just now ran those. I think I know what's happening with you... the test you took on TestMy.net was using the East Coast (Washington D.C.) server. But old.testmy.net is hosted on the same server as the default server on TestMy.net. That would definitely explain the discrepancy. Switch to the default server and they should line up... ... Latency as well as some other treats will be included in the version I'm building now. Hang in there, I'm just one guy over here... but I am banging it out. My results to the other servers...

You might have a bad router. Being a cable provider an MTU of 1500 is optimal. Sometimes using the routers reset button and setting up from factory defaults will help. That shouldn't effect the firmware upgrade you did by the way. Hold the reset for about ten seconds, unplug the router continuing to hold the reset as it boots up for about ten seconds. (Do this because some routers have a different sequence for resetting... this will ensure its being reset)... some little setting might be incorrect, sometimes starting over can help. Another thing to try is to use the same Ethernet cable that you were using to connect the D-Link router to the modem. The one that came with the new router might be at fault... I've seen it happen more than once... supposedly brand new cable, bad. Good luck, let us know what you find.