CA3LE

This is a video of the odd behavior in my test & CA3LE forum post:
TMN(02).mkv
 
Only in Opera portable .

At least its (currently) consistent. Much better than satellite alternatives! 

You can definitely see in the video something is compressing the data on the back end, primarily on the large file sizes;  Almost like a download booster, or something of that nature. 
I use brave right now, and chrome for sites brave is blocking something needed, which i run into from time to time. oh, and btw, both the gif and the mkv worked fine for me, lol. 

Looks like they're in Pakistan.
 
blackcobracatcher's Speed Test Results
 
If your only seeing 2-8 Mbps here at TestMy.net then chances are you don't really have 500 Mbps.  You may see great speed nearby but the internet tends to be everywhere. 🤔
 
Imagine this, I'm in Pakistan and I setup a 10 Gbps network in my neighborhood and get all of my 200+ neighbors to sign up.  They're all super excited because after I get them connected I show them they're getting 10 Gbps using my speed test (testing against servers hosted over at my house... shhh, don't tell them that).  Imagine I have 4 connections out, a few 10 Gbps connections that connect me to other local/regional ISPs but I only have 1x10 Gbps that peers well internationally.  Depending on the routing, time of day and what the other neighbors are doing a customer might get 10 Gbps but may also hit the bottleneck of those connections out of the network.
 
This is the same thing ISPs do all over the world.  They oversell network capacity. 
 
You're always going to lose speed at distance but higher quality hosts/connections will take better, more direct routes and have higher capacity.  You definitely shouldn't drop to 2% of the connection speed.  And if that's what TestMy.net is showing you, that's what you're really getting.  At least to and from the location you have selected (Florida).
 
Here's my connection speed nearby, I'm in Colorado Springs - testing Colorado Springs
TestMy.net Test ID : 2h874_xfA.hbMDDdqXt
 
And here's to my hardest to reach locale, India.
TestMy.net Test ID : L5axksd8f.xOMgtA8Sl
 
So I'm running at 28% Download and 47% Upload
 
I usually get my worst connection speeds to India.  Testing against UK, still international and about 5000 miles I get better results. 
TestMy.net Test ID : ZwxVufpxD.lJx2Jf4FV
 
50% Download and 69% Upload.
 
And I usually see better results than that.
?t=u&l=50&z=65&q=CA3LE's Speed Test Results
 
This is my consumer home connection, using commercial connections gives much better results at distance.
 
You're hitting a bottleneck somewhere.
 
Other speed tests may paint a different picture.  You should probably stop using them.  Those other tests are often made by entities who have an interest in showing you a better result.  I don't.  I really don't care how you score.  I only care to show you the truth in the best way I know.  When you test at TestMy.net the servers are hosted under the most popular VPS hosts, currently Vultr is carrying the majority of my bandwidth (unbiased hosting).  Where other speed tests are reported to remove certain portions of the result and highlight others; which often makes things appear faster, TestMy.net always calculates your result simply and transparently using size/time = speed.
 
Let me put it this way, I wish everyone could see and understand the code behind TestMy.net.  If you did you'd know that it's actually impossible for it to show you 8 Mbps unless you actually have 8 Mbps.  The test wants to run full throttle, unless it's being restricted in some way.  So it HAS to be restricted to get the results you're seeing.  My guess is a bottleneck coming out of your ISP and Pakistan but it could be a number of issues that other tests for some reason never seem to notice.  But if it's slowing down TestMy.net, you're being slowed down.  Other speed tests obviously have different goals than TestMy.net.
 
As @xs1 said, try selecting different mirrors.  You may get better results on a server closer to you but you still shouldn't be getting such a poor result to Florida.  Run some tests against IN, UK and DE to see what your results look like.  Let me know when you're done and I'll post your results here in the forum for you.

Eventually, T-Mobile got whatever was needed with the local towers done.  It STILL fluctuates wildly, but it USUALLY stays at a speed that makes things usable.  At good times it runs quite well.  It's better than the DSL we had. and cheaper.
 
Unfortunately, I guess that makes the best answer is to keep calling T-Mobile when it sucks, go through umpteen "support" people,  generally be a pain in the *ss, and have graphs like the above that show how inconsistent their service is.
 
With a little luck, after 4 - 5 months, hopefully they'll get things to the point where the service doesn't drop to zero, and will mostly work most of the time!  If you're lucky, it'll work well enough you rarely get buffering on the 480p tv, and downloads will be reasonably fast.

Where is their server located that you're connecting to?

Can confirm, tyvm!

I enabled additional error logging last night on My Projects but made a typo.  Resolved now, thank you.

@CA3LE Btw, not sure if it's related, I'm getting an error after running tests, the "Try Again" button resolves it and the results load.
 

I guess the better question is, is your concern the consistency of the pings, or the final number, as you have stated in previous post?  I ask because as far as the consistency aspect is concerned, the spikes, or jitter, is going to be on the ISP routing end of things... not a whole lot that can be done there short of having a technician from the ISP run line dB testing, either from your personal location of testing, or from the node to your location, etc. As far as the final number goes... That is on the other end of the IP's final stop... just end distance as a factor & really cannot change that aspect. 
 
On the other hand, your trace to the fl.testmy.net seemed pretty normal give or take a few spikes. Ping 1 is you, ping 2 is you -> your  switch/node , 3 is your ISP & onward. From there, is all in ISP routing. 
 
Miami, about 2 hours south from my location. 
 

 
 
 
 
 
Colorado, about 2000 miles away. 
 
 

Welcome to TestMy.net!  I think we can help.  

Hey Everybody
I work for a Call Center and have not a big clue of PINGs and traceroutes etc. However the PING is poor and the European Call Center tells me, my ISP is able to do something to improve it.
The ISP however seems to be a at a loss.
I hid the server in Europe.
The first IP is mine.
 
Up to line 10 are all IP adresses from my ISP.
So in my point of view - which of course is just the opinion of a non-expert - they could do something to improve which would then help lower the final ping. Is this wrong thinking?
And I am quite worried, that line 2 is already timing out.

Hope you can shed some light on this issue.

Thank you all!

Waving from the sunny Island of Grenada. It is lovely to be far away from bigger lands unless it comes to Internet. 😆 Hope to find answers here with regards to my PING issues. My ISP seems to be lost...
pothoun

I found a bug already 🤣
 
Not a major concern from my end, but an ampersand in the project or sub-project name causes a mild issue. I entered `AT&T` for both parameters in this screenshot:
 

 
I was trying to enter "EBrown Home" for Project, and "AT&T LTE" for the sub-project when I found the issue:
 

 
However, on the bright side: the QR Code at the device-signup page worked exactly as I would hope it does. I scanned it with my phone and it pulled right in, as desired.

If you build a good system things naturally fall into place.

Good catch.  It's now encoding properly for that instance.
 

 
 
Sweet.  I hope it helps.

Beautiful! I will play with it later today, I have about 9 hours of meetings today.
 
Also -- congrats on the new family member! Always exciting, make sure you spend plenty of time with your new baby, my projects are far less important.

@nanobot Look for "My Projects" under DB in the main menu (outside of the forum).
 
Play around with it and share your thoughts.
 
Note, results will only be saved when using the beta version (for now).  When you join a project it will default the target device to the beta automatically.
 
Another note, you can use emojis in names if you'd like.  Pretty fun.  

I did have it ready for you but wanted to run some more tests.
 
Been busy with family since my last post.  Volunteered for my daughter's 6th grade YMCA camping trip, which was awesome!  My wife was only days from her due date but she always runs a couple weeks longer.  I also had a friend with me who had a satellite phone and was only maybe 70-90 minutes from getting to the hospital if needed.  I get to the camp and find that although there's definitely no cell service... they have wifi setup for the school.  lol, glamping. 
 
Anyways, we got back and I under estimated the time needed to get ready.  Before I knew it we were having a baby. 
 
Reign was born 9/26/2023 9lbs 12oz 22in

My youngest daughter Reagan holding him, first moments at home.  I have 5 kids now.  
 
While I moved around the hospital for 72 hours I was able to quickly make and add to projects, search, select, have results saved on those special side databases and then at the end aggregate them all together. 
 
I want to run though testing the QR Auth again.  In all of my previous testing so far it's working as expected.  You pull up the Pro Auth page on the device you want to test, scan the QR code on your phone (signed in to TMN), your phone asks you to either create a new project or assign the device to an existing project.  As soon as it's selected the target device gets a signal and then the browser's results get tied to your special side database.
 
In use I thought of some things to improve the experience but I think what's laid down so far makes a good version 1.  For your use case it might just make your life easier.
 
When I'm able to I'll give it another go over, when satisfied with how it's working for me I'll open it up for your username first.  Once you're happy with the operation we'll share it with the rest of our beta testers.
 
The code base on this increased 35% from the 18th to the 25th.  So quite a bit more logic has been added since I was already getting excited.  Hope you dig it.

Click [Customize] then select 500 MB max. 
 
I may change the default after we get going.

I can't finish it until at least Friday but I'll let you know as soon as it's ready. 😀

Well it's definitely falling into place.  QR authorization done.
 
You can now have your phone signed in, then go from computer to computer and scan the QR code.  A couple seconds, it links up and then asks you which projected to add it to.  Once you select, the target computer magically gets authorized.  It's really cool.  Again, great idea Elliot.
 
Coming together nicely.  I'll be hitting you up for real-world testing as soon as I finish my testing.

Click [Customize] then select 500 MB max. 
 
I may change the default after we get going.

Now that I type this, wonder if having a "stress test" with a mixture of block sizes would be handy, would simulate what computers / networks actually do. Some are doing really small data-loads and some are doing large data-loads.
 
Just a thought.

Ahhhh, I see.  I can definitely work that in there.  Great idea... super slick.
 
I'll add that, need to also add pagination (for when you have many projects listed).  Added search functionality last night, pretty cool predictive search.  Where pulls and displays the search results while you're typing.  First time I've done that, it's really nice.
 
After those elements are complete I'll reset it's databases and put it through real-world testing.  After I've tested some more I'll get it out to you.
 
Might be the fastest turn around I've done for a request, ever.  And this isn't some small thing, I've been working solid on it since Wednesday.  The main controller for this part of the program is currently 44 kB and then hooks had to be created across the rest of the program to make it play with everything.  Probably another 30 kB.  So I estimate about 74,000 characters.  And that's employing my goal of writing as little code as possible to get the same thing done.  ... I'm not just slapping crap together, you'll see.
 
I wrote it and I'm not sure how because it's been less than a week (not even 5 days yet actually).  And I didn't touch the keys until day 2, lol.  --- seriously, funny thing is I don't feel like I've done anything.  It built itself.
 
Very useful functionality, as it's coming together I can see how it will benefit many more use cases.  Can't wait to share it with you.