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Your welcome! -- I see what you're saying. Try it now and let me know what you think. -D

I thought this was a pretty funny screenshot... ... get it... limp ... actually, very badass upload. I wish I had Verizon in my area.

Hey Addi, I can't pull my full speeds on 1G lines either... It could be a limitation of the host computer. Realize that for connections as fast as yours... you can't realy max them out here. It's going through your browser so any browser limitations also come into play. I've even noticed that hard drive speed can be a factor in your results here (on really fast connections that becomes noticeable after a SSD upgrade for instance). Your computer has to be able to quickly process the amount of information that's being loaded into the browser. ...This is not just a simple test of your Internet, that's just how it started. In the future I plan on releasing command line testing utilities that will make testing on those types of connections REALLY accurate. Thanks for the feedback and support

Well, you're seeing first hand that the tests that they send you to are in their favor... not yours. ... how to get them to fix it, show them your evidence. You can give them one of the many share links I offer... Go to your results and click "share and export" You can use any of these options to share your scores for your entire account. Or share individual scores with the link next to the score in your results... Besides presenting the evidence and threatening to switch providers I don't know what to do. Usually that's enough to get them to fix the issue. But if it isn't, stick to your guns and get a new provider. ... The test that they're sending you to eliminates the Internet route by using one of their local servers. So of course you're going to get great speed. That's a good test for them but it doesn't tell you much about how your actual Internet is running. You're paying for Internet not local area network, right? Sometimes I hear them blaming my website... trust me, my servers definitely have more than enough bandwidth and are hosted were a large majority of the worlds websites are hosted. If you can't pull good speeds to any or all of those servers... your provider is most likely to blame. Have you tried testing on the east or west coast servers? Good luck, thanks for your support. --- Isn't it funny how the results here "mirror" how your Internet is really running. because TestMy is really testing your connection.

I actually keep rolling that one over in my head... I know what you're saying. It makes sense but it doesn't. ... maybe it's time to change that. What about this... ... 'previous' was meaning previous in the search query, not necessarily in time. I think the new wording clears the confusion. What do you think?

I used to be the same way... then I got my Mac mini and it was over from there. The operating system and hardware they use are supieror in every way. This website is a testimant to the extra productivity that my Mac's have afforded me. They just run... correctly. Not that my PC's didn't in the past... but since I've been using OSX I'm speding far less time dealing with BS and far more time building... My Windows PCs took ALLOT of customizing to get them to work the way I liked. OSX does that out of the box. Dude, get an Apple computer then I dare you to switch back... you won't and neither does anyone else. That's why it doesn't suprise me how big their pockets are these days. And just because you have an Apple computer doesn't mean you have to use iTunes or buy mp3's from them. Get them how you are now, just listen to them on a better machine. ---- BUT, if you want added conveince, the store is there. Don't hate them because they're smart, that's a reason to join them. I'm not trying to convert anyone, I don't really care what anyone else uses. I just know that it finally feels like the computer listens to me all the time... less time thinking about the computer and more time thinking about work. That's the beauty, especially since I got the 27" iMac I never think about it because it always does what it's supposed to. I still have the Mac mini, upgraded now to a 256MB SSD that's too fast for the controler and 8GB of 1333 DDR3. It blows away 99% of computers that I touch. Even a brand new iMac isn't as fast unless you upgrade it... so obviously I had to upgrade my iMac out of the box. I bet you could get a used mini for < $200 (private party) -- Apple is expensive (you get what you pay for) but they do have options to get you in for cheaper. I got my mini off Apple's referb program - I actually think you get a better computer that way sometimes. Often those have had flaws resolved, sometimes the cutomer that had it before didn't even open it (like it was a present and they wanted the better model)... Apple still sells them at a discount even if that's the case. Mine was a referb and it's only been powered down like 3 times in like 3 years... for upgrades or moving. The iMac... I couldn't wait for shipping so I got that out of the Apple store but after the first referb purchase I made with them...... I would have totally been comfortable doing that again. In summation... OSX = Programmers Best Friend

I took a few minutes to fix that... minimums can now be set again. --- still look for these features to become more powerful in the future... and maximums to return.

... I'm a lucky man. Oh yeah... welcome! Thanks TriRan!

This is something I want in the next version of my graphs. I have no problem doing this now but I currently can't do this (accurately) if the graphs are displaying multiple plots. Like upload and download speed on the same graph. This is because they share the information of the x-axis. If you click the little arrows in your results it will filter by test type. Once you've filtered it down to either just upload speed or download speed you'll see the date information when you hover. clicking the red and blue arrows in the results will filter by test type... then date and time will be shown on the graph see... Because they currently share that axis... if I put the date in there, it wouldn't match because the the upload and download tests aren't always taken at the same time. I'm working on it though. Just be patient with me and realize that I'm a single person programming all of this. Thank you for your patronage, please tell your friends! - Damon

Yes, I just turned that feature off however. I have to rethink the programming on that. Those size options will return soon... but next time it will be better. I think instead of it being an option of the test... you'll have a site-wide testing options that you can set and forget. That way in the future you'll just hit any of the testing pages and your custom options that you choose will already be set. ... then you'll just have to click 'start' instead of setting the options every time. I have allot of features that I'll be reworking in this way but the auto speed test sizing HAD to be turned off until I rework it. It had some pretty annoying bugs that I need to think about a little bit. Thanks for the suggestion, stick around... it will return. -D

apple rules

niiiice

What the heck is up with this screenshot?

I'll give terra a try next time I'm working on the iPad... I'll have to see this >50MB crash for myself. This is the best I've pulled on the iPad so far... ... But I was cheating because it wasn't really on an iPad. Rather my iMac running xcode's iPad preview. It really feels like an iPad though... how it loads. Best I've seen on my network with a real iPad was about 30Mbps... actually just under 30Mbps like you had. Maybe that's the limitations of the real device? I haven't tested them enough myself to be sure... maybe you can provide more iPad insight. -D

Hey.. I'll reply to your other topic when I have a little more time. I'm still thinking of ways to display time better in the next graphing system. Thanks for the suggestions. I definitely am working towards what your talking about. You've given me a couple ideas... thanks.

Great idea. For years I've been thinking of a way to do this without really bugging people but I think I'll have to just ask... have it as optional information on the results page or something. I just sat here and thought about it for like 20 minutes, I got totally lost in plotting, haha. I've got the database logistics worked out in my head. It's going to be a little work to build that into what I've go going on. I'm using some pretty neat techniques to query all of my information these days... oh, if you only knew the amount of information that I've gathered. Some of those queries should take minutes not milliseconds, it's all about the database design. I'm just barely starting to figure out how to really display it all in meaningful ways... I totally agree, "promised vs delivered" data would make the information MUCH more useful. If it's done correctly. Keep checking back for that, I will work it in soon. Thanks for visiting, make sure to tell your friends!

Welcome! As TriRan said... Your connection speed is what your provider says you have. Your download speed is the measurement of your connection speed. Connection speed also encompasses upload speed.

wifi -- it's all good now

If you find what the problem is can you please let us know. Best bet is to get a new browser to tell you the truth. Why is it that only IE seems to get so easily jacked up all the time? Nobody ever posts here saying, "I'm having problems with firefox (or chrome)." --- ever! I'm not giving your browser a very complex task here. It taxes the browser but it should be VERY easy for any browser to understand. If it has problems with what my tests are telling it to do... trust me, your browsing experience must be suffering elsewhere. ... my tests seem to break when your computer breaks, isn't that funny?

Glad to hear that you fixed the issue. Your running over 2.5 times faster than before... yeah, that was definitely a problem that needed looking into. Can you please help spread the word about how speedtest.net didn't detect your issue. They're the most popular Internet speed test but nobody even realizes that they aren't really being tested there. Funny thing is, all of the ISPs are jumping on board... I strongly believe that Ookla's tests make the ISPs look better than they really are. I also believe that you've just proven that with your results. Ask the regulars here, we see the same thing all the time. You had a physical issue that went undetected, does anyone need more proof at this point? Do the ISPs want their customers to suffer? You'd think they'd want to know when a modem goes bad, easy fix. Do the ISPs even know that the tests they're using are BS? ...or were they sold on an idea. I don't know. ... at any rate. Help me get the word out, I don't advertise and I rarely post anything outside of this site. I just develop my tests to actually do what I say they do and I truly rely you guys to tell people about it... if you agree with what I've got going on here, tell someone. That's all I ask. - Cheers

If you guys want it... I'll build it. ... keep developing the idea and I'll check back. -- figure out among yourselves who will moderate it, you don't need to already be a mod. If I like the idea and I think it's a good fit for the site, I'll make it happen. -D

SCORE!

haha, awesome. Damn over 20 million views on that already!

Welcome! I hope that my tools will provide some insight that will help resolve the issue.

If the "One Moment... I'm Initializing Your Connection" stays up you must not have javascript turned on in your browser. Return your browser to default settings and you should be able to run the tests just fine. I just ran a test on my test bench using Windows 7 Home Premium and Internet Explorer 9, ran just fine for me. ​The tests work great in IE but I recommend Firefox or Chrome -- simply put, they're just better browsers.