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They're so big they look like they hurt.. lol

Hi Danneauxs, welcome! My next round of programming improvements will enable the test to pick up where it left off if that happens and it will report to you that it happened. Currently there is no way to resolve this. The fact that this is happening is a major indication that you have an issue... If I were you I would contact my provider and tell them that my connection is dropping. Stick with me... I have a lot of work on my plate before I get on that but I work fast.

Oh it says sTack.. that could have been embarrassing...

So I take it your display ports are all used up? ... Do you have more monitors lying around or something? Are you insinuating hooking up a 3rd external monitor? I know what you mean with multiple desktops. I prefer using more monitors or larger displays over extra desktops. I'm always out of space no matter what. As I type this I hit command+tab and 13 applications are running. I personally get around by using that often, command tab to the application with my keyboard, command+shift+tab to move backwards in the list. Just became second nature. Part of my display is taken up by 4 SSH windows that I always have on top so I can at a glance monitor all my servers. So about a hand width of my display on the left side is used up... I'm about to hook up my other monitor and use it just for those windows and pandora... and other crap that I'm not really working with. Then leave my main monitor for what I'm focused on. I've had up to three monitors running before but being different models it pissed me off that the whiteness and contract didn't match exactly. My OCD kicked in and it bugged the sh*t out of me. The just need to come out with mind displays already! So the image is visualized in your head, that would be siiiiiiick. Screw input devices too, they only slow us down. I think if you made some adjustments to the way you get around you'll find that you can make it work the way that you're setup right now... maybe you already work that way.

Even just visiting the site is good enough for me

No problem! Thank YOU for all your fine visiting. It's because it seems that your speed has recently increased. See the sharp climb at the end... you're definitely performing better than you were. It will force you to use SmarTest if your connection is too fast, even if you select a size manually. This is to help weed out bursted speeds that happen with certain providers. What must be happening is you're bursting that 12MB test to the point that the test thinks it's best to up the size... it's not what you originally selected... but it's more accurate that way. Sometimes it will do that... sometimes it won't. Depends on a lot of variables actually. There's an assessment that's made when you hit the results page... if it thinks that a larger size is beneficial to the accuracy it will calculate what it thinks you need and forward you past the results and right back into the test. Usually it will get it right the first time when you start with a large file like that... but if not it will try a maximum of 4 times before figuring, "that's the best I can do."

Werd! Hopefully it's not just a fluke

Welcome Lee! Your speeds look pretty good for your package. I hope you like TMN and help spread the word. Being a speed freak I hope you take the time to share your knowledge in our forums.

Hi Olivia, My data isn't skewed. Your provider may provide 1Gbit speed but that doesn't mean that you're going to pull those speeds everywhere. Especially crossing the Atlantic where speeds are often limited due to oversold bandwidth. There also can be restrictions on those links in place by the providers your ISP peers with. Your connection is only as fast as the slowest link between you and the server you're testing from. My servers are multi-gigabit uplinked in locations that are directly on some of the most powerful trunk lines on the Internet. Users overseas often email me about this but there are people overseas that are able to pull 200+ Mbps despite the distance. Although they are usually connected through commercial connections not residential. My aim is to bring light to these issues in hopes of getting people connected better... providers are in large part misrepresenting the connections they sell. Sure your connection might pull 1Gbit near your home but the further you go out on the Internet the worse it gets. It really doesn't have to if everyone is delivering what they promise. Having said that, it might not be their fault... it may be the people they peer through... or even the people those people peer through. International routing is way oversold right now and providers always point the finger at the other guy. But the truth is... they choose who they peer through. If they used hosts that were less congested... you wouldn't have as much of an issue. If you visit a lot of websites in the United States then trust me... you're receiving a fair assessment at TestMy.net. The truth hurts sometimes but no matter what TMN is going to call it how it sees it. TMN is not a best case scenario speed test. There are other speed tests that offer servers closer to you but that's not how the Internet works. When you visit websites they are rarely near you. In my opinion a better assessment of your connection is by testing far away to locations where the websites you visit are hosted. It might not produce the numbers you want to see but at least you're being real with yourself. I also offer testing to a servers in Washington D.C. and Seattle Washington ... D.C. being closer to you should provide a bit higher result but you're still crossing the Atlantic which is where you're most likely losing most of your speed. - Cheers, - Damon Mueller

Embarrassing for any website.. but even more so for Google. As long as humans are in the equation errors will happen.

Sure does

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