CA3LE

Thanks CA3LE. I will take some time and study the network map. I too think there is congestion somewhere in TWC's path to the Dallas server. I've checked speeds using some speed test sites other than TMN, and while I don't think their speeds are at all indicative of any real speed numbers, I can see a difference in the results on thos sites - slower in the evening, just like I'm seeing here. I have an iPad app called OOKLA Speedtest, but I can't get results that I believe. I think there's huge variation in the various servers they have on their pick list. Some of them just must not have much bandwidth. I sometimes see 100% difference between different servers in the same city. I have had faster times using that app when I choose a server on the East coast and similar slower times choosing a server that is south of here (like the Dallas server is). But I don't have a lot of faith in their server system. On one of them, my download speeds were slower than my upload speeds.

And I will look at Trace in Ky. Thanks

I noticed that Tracy in KY (only a few hours from you) who's also routed through TWC is having drops during the same hours as you.  You might want to look at this topic https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/31124-hi-i-am-tracy-b-from-frankfort-ky/.  His issue is obviously way worse than yours but may be related.
 
-D

I'm still working to understand TraceMy.net's results.  I don't think an address has to have bad response time to slow you down.  So until I fully understand what I built and can explain my findings... take those results with a grain of salt.  Right now it's only tracing to my main server in Dallas but when complete it will utilize my entire network.
 
CDN may perform better for you because the transaction is relayed to a server closer to you.  Look at the network map.  For some people this performs better... others will get better performance directly to TMN servers.
 
Here's my own result at about 8:30 the other night... I test just fine during those hours... but I am slightly slower than my best.
 

 
I think that Time Warner has some routes that are congested during peak hours in your area.  Other servers, like testing to CDN for instance, will take different routes... possibly bypassing the congestion.  My goal is to make TraceMy.net detect and idetify those problem areas... and give you the ammunition you need to complain to your ISP.

I used to despise netgear, years ago that is. When there was a router virus going around that exploited the firmware, dns changer I believe. 
Now that I've experienced this and constantly pull falling hair off the keyboard ( ignore that last bit) - So I have a couple here, older ones none the less perform well. Of course i flash with dd-wrt, none the less the hardware is proven. 

I am extremely disappointed with the RT-AC68U.  I have only had it for a few days and it was rebooting for no apparent reason and would freeze often and was not accessible without power reset.  It was running extremely hot with two wireless connections streaming 40-60Mbps a piece. The menu/software isvery slow to update setting adjustments.     This was my first Asus networking experience. I only chose it because it was in stock and the Nighthawk was not. The lan throughput was a positive point and I did reach 149.8 Mpbs throughput to my ISP's local test server which is higher than 148.1 with my previous router a Netgear AC1750 R6300 v2.   Asus support had me update to 205 firmware, which made the router even more problematic.    Positives:  Wan to Lan performance was very good.   Negatives: Not reliable. Crashes often. Runs very warm. UI is slow and sluggish Tech support is terrible, for Europe anyway. I could not understand the man. Very heavy accent and not friendly.   I join a long list of unhappy customers of this router it seems. I will return it today for a full refund and hope to find a Nighthawk locally.

Hi Randy, welcome to TestMy.net.
 
It shouldn't slow you down but that depends on a few things.  How far away is the computer from the router?  What kind of router and adapter?
 
Personally, I always try to have my main desktop hooked up with ethernet directly to the router.  I use wifi for everything else. If I connect my office computer to my wifi I still get a nice smooth connection.  But I get better performance within my home network using ethernet.  No doubt because my router is on the opposite side of the house, my office is in the corner of the house so it wasn't ideal for the wifi.  I go to extremes to get the best possible connection...  Even if it was in the same room it would be even more reason to wire it up directly.  Wireless is catching up but then I'd expect 10G to become standard in the future so ethernet will always be better.  Direct connection is always best.
 
Best way to tell if you're losing quality... get scientific.  Run a control test using TestMy.net, directly connected to the modem.  Then do the same exact test connected to ethernet... then do the same test again on wifi.    Maybe run three of each and average.  You can separate the results with identifiers, found in a drop down menu on the homepage and test pages.
 

 
Then you can filter your results using the drop down menu below the graph..
 

 
Experimentation will lead you to the fastest setup... I recently moved and rebuilt my entire home network.  TMN made my performance instantly apparent and caused me to re-configure my network more optimally.  I was able to discover interference, simple channel change on the router dramatically improved wireless. I was also able to see degradation due to a bad cat-5 connector and wall plate that was improperly installed.  Testing and retesting ... tweaking this and that until I could get the numbers as close as I could to the numbers I read directly off the modem.  End result, my network is faster and smoother than it would have been if I just blindly installed everything.   ... experiment.  That's what this site is all about.

yea 15 years ago, this would be nuts! haha, awesome speed Damon!! I run a D-link DIR-855, next time i upgrade i will consider the Netgear I ran a tracert to the german mirror and it looks like a clean route 51 ms latency so it should be faster even tho i dont complain 

I never even try to tweak my iPhone... here's the best I've seen.
 
On my new iPhone5s Model A1533

 
Here's a result on the same connection a couple weeks earlier with my iPhone5 Model A1429 

 
Must be the Netgear Nighthawk that's boosting the performance because before I got that I was pretty much maxing out at around 30 Mbps.  Here's some discussion on the Netgear Nighthawk.  But seriously, even 20 Mbps in your palm.  You can't complain.    That would have made my brain melt 15 years ago.

Strange because mine is a 2007 pre unibody 3,1 - I though I read anything that ran 10.8 or mountain lion was supported. 
 
Well this I did find so fair enough I suppose ~
 
Mavericks Capable Macs Mavericks, like its predecessor Mountain Lion, requires one of the following Macs with at least 2 GB of RAM and 8 GB of available hard drive space:
iMac (Mid 2007 or newer) MacBook (Late 2008 Aluminum, or Early 2009 or newer) MacBook Air (Late 2008 or newer) MacBook Pro (Mid/Late 2007 or newer) Mac mini (Early 2009 or newer) Mac Pro (Early 2008 or newer) Xserve (Early 2009)  
I never really used the network monitor, but have used nettop , you can run .......
nettop -nc -m route ...if you want to catch it live.
 
Trying to get ntopng running on mavericks, looks like it'll need compiled Vs. the pkg offered. 

I have an Asus RT-AC68U Dual-band Wireless-AC1900 Gigabit Router.
 
The range is good for me, I have not tested its limits yet. I do receive full bars/excellent connection through out my home. I chose it because of it is able to offer 600Mbps @ 2.4Ghz and over 1Gbps @ 5Ghz frequencies. 

Hey guys, long time.... Even tho im not active at the forum i keep testing sometimes 
 
Found a great mirror!
 
This is from my work, 100Mbps, 
 

 

 
 

iPhone 5s on Comcast

:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 62509 Kbps or 62.5 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 50 MB or 51200 kB or 52428800 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 7814 kB/s or 7.8 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/VjtwHWg
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 32.77 Mbps | Middle Avg 67.9 Mbps | Max 76.26 Mbps | 29% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 33.55 Mbps, 47.13 Mbps, 59.17 Mbps, 67.05 Mbps, 65.99 Mbps, 67.89 Mbps, 72.04 Mbps, 73.44 Mbps, 70.03 Mbps, 71.36 Mbps, 71.9 Mbps, 70.16 Mbps, 68.02 Mbps, 68.76 Mbps, 72.45 Mbps, 63.44 Mbps, 69.14 Mbps, 76.26 Mbps, 32.77 Mbps
More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/CA3LE https://testmy.net/compID/69431494760
Test Time:: 2013-10-26 13:05:58 Local Time
Location:: Monument, CO US >> Destination:: San Jose, CA US
1MB Download in 0.13 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~2 Minutes - 1116X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 51200 kB took 6.715 seconds to complete
Running at 299% of hosts average (Comcast Cable https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 7_0_3 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/537.51.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) CriOS/30.0.1599.16 Mobile/11B511 Safari/8536.25 [!]

Multithread is currently only available on the download test. I'm working on doing the same with the upload test.

Running pfsense on an HP box with 4-GB nics split by a cisco 2924-xl for local KVM acess ect, a DGS-1224G GB switch, one card to a wtr54g with ddwrt, a wap11 which acts as a repeater.
 
I pulled cat6 through this old plastered house and dropped GB nics in all the machines. The wireless is controlled through 'captive portal' ( which plays hell on the kids 3dsx hahah ) on the pfsense appliance for external access. All hardware devices are on seperate subnets from any servers and or wireless networks. Using turnkey PDC to keep things in order.

All the equipment I have ever gotten from Time Warner has been junk, even the cable boxes. I've always just purchased my own modem. Especially now that they are trying to charge you $6 / month if you rent it from them.

I'm using an AirPort Extreme 802.11n (5th Generation). It's a great one too. I'm not actually using it as the router, but as a wireless switch that feeds my old D-Link DI-604 which performs the actual routing function. I did it that way so that I could put the router in the basement with all the Ethernet lines running to it through a gigabit switch. The house has wired ethernet in most rooms. That way I could put the AirPort Extreme upstairs in a central location. It has good range too, thru walls into the garage and out onto the deck.

The AirPort Extreme, D-Link DI-604 router, and the D-Link DGS-1008G gigabit switch are rock solid reliable. Literally, the only time they ever get reset is when the electric power goes off. Wish I could say the same about the Time Warner equipment.

The jury is still out on the Arris gateway from Time Warner. It's new here and came with a recent upgrade to faster Internet and phone service with their Signature Home plan. The Cisco DVR they have me is erratic and I think it will need to be replaced.

With Tax I  pay$93/Mo.
 
:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 48435 Kbps or 48.4 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 46 MB or 47104 kB or 48234496 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 6054 kB/s or 6.1 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/PWOdfpi
 

I just tried the TraceMy.net tool. It's already great. I've only spent minutes with it and don't claim yet to understand everything it's telling me. But, I got normal looking Up and Down speeds this morning on the Dallas server, so I know what the trace looks like under normal operating conditions. It showed a couple of 600+ millisecond ping numbers, and I don't know how good, bad, or typical that is for Time Warner Cincinnati; it sounds really long. I pulled up a Community graph and it looks like an order of magnitude lower ping numbers, but since my times were as fast as they are when everything is working right, I expect the 625 mS ping numbers were normal for my ISP. My TWC plan isn't one of their fast ones; it's just one step up from their minimum offered plan (if I remember right). For all I know, they program in delays for the cheap plans and remove them for the expensive ones, and everybody uses the same equipment.

I'll play with TraceMy.net some more soon, and maybe ask some specific questions

The one thing that confused me a little with the TraceMy.net results was the security for sharing info that came up. It talked about creating a TMN ID. I guessed that that message was for new users without a TMN ID that would be using the eventual released version, and it was telling them to sign up for a TMN account. I wasn't sure though that the data I was looking at with the IP addresses was something I should be sharing. As I said, I haven't played with it much yet, so I'm sure I'll figure stuff out after I use it more.

Your note comes up after a trace route test "Make this safe to share by removing identifying target information and converting the address into an anonymous TMN ID."

After I hit the link part of that "Make this safe to share", it displays a similar page with a temporary note saying that it was safe to share. But I couldn't tell what the difference was from the prior page that supposedly wasn't safe to share.

Note-9/3/13-I figured out the difference.

I'm still having issues when speed testing on the Dallas server. I get 3x the speed using the Washington DC server, which shows a speed more like I'm used to seeing during prime time evening hours on the Dallas aerver. When I do the TraceMy.net trace test, the ping times I see are very close to what I see when my speeds are registering normal - during non-prime time hours. I'm puzzled by the extremely low speeds I'm seeing using the Dallas server. Anyone have any idea what the issue(s) might be? This phenomenon has been going on for a while now-like 3 weeks or so.

Note that the Dallas server is identified with the star in the upper data picture. And the Washing DC server is the US flag.

Note. I get ping times like these when I'm registering close to 15 Mbps download from either server. When on the Dallas server, and my speeds are very low like the above ~3 Mbps, my ping times are virtually the same.

Again, this morning I'm getting the normal fast (for me) speed readings on the Dallas server....see the last two points on the chart/data list Note that the ping times are about the same as last night when I was experiencing the really slow download times.

I have the same problem with the Dallas server. For months I've been getting around 40 Mb/s and today I get less than 8 Mb/s. East and West coast tests are giving around 18-20 Mb/s.

And today, speed is back to normal for me. Must have been some temporary routing/bottleneck slowdown.

welcome. Glad to see it all worked out for you. 

I know this post is old, but I used to work for Comcast as a Broadband Tech.
 
If your Internet seems to be slower than usual:
- ensure no one is hacking into your connection: check your router's "attached devices" page. (disable non-essential WiFi/Wireless broadcasting on your router, etc.)
- ensure you're not close to your monthly bandwidth limit.
- ensure there's no IP conflict
- ensure it's not your DNS server (if applicable, check out "DNS Benchmark" for verification)
- ensure your bandwidth is not being hogged up by other members of your household
- keep in mind, especially during evenings, your node can be congested. (everyone's home and Online)
 
Few Tips for Slow Speeds:
- Power cycle your modem & router if applicable. (unplug completely from outlet for atleast 20 seconds.)
- Ensure you're using Cat5 (Ethernet) cables and not USB cables.
- If possible, try to request a new IP.
 
Recommendations:
- mudmanc4 is correct, it is wise to change your IP if possible. (prevents neighbors hacking/stealing your bandwidth, Online hackers, ISP flagging, etc.)
- Comcast, like many other ISPs, issue static IPs. In order to change static IPs, you have to change (spoof) your MAC Address. If you're behind a router, change the MAC on your router, then power-cycle your equipment.
 
I use TMACPortable. (no installation required)
The MAC Addresses it issues are compatible 100% of the time.
While other MAC apps., (from my experience) are not as reliable.
 
Note: sometimes.. during power cycling..  the modem will not lock up right away.. stay calm.
This is usual.. just give it time.. and keep power-cycling the modem.(this happens maybe once a month for me.)
The longest i've had to wait was 20 minutes.
(this is not accounting for infrastructure problems, in that case, it depends on your ISP. ie. down power lines, node congestion, etc.)

From a SUSE Open Linux Virtual Machine with a VXNET3 NIC for the public IF.  If you are interested in the setup of my environment, read on below the link...warning: you might get bored because I tend to ramble sometimes
 
 

 
It's been a while since I've had the pleasure of visiting TMN, been out of the country for some time now.  Nice to be back...anyway, I've been tweaking a SUSE box (SUSE is my new obsession recently) that I have installed as a network lab on one of my ESXi vCenter servers....anyway, I'll get to the point.  Just completed a transition from the "default" Enterprise Plus packaged Distributed Virtual Switches to using the Cisco Nexus 1000V DVS.  Not only is it AWESOME to have the IOS Cisco shell to work with in the virtual environment, but that switch kicks the sh** out of the standard DVS.  If you're an advanced and enthusiastic VMware (or Xen, for that matter....and, I guess, also *gag* Hyper-V...), install the 1000V and get back control of your networking.  It is a really powerful box and Cisco offers a 100% fully free perpetual version now with very few limiting features.
 
No, I promise I don't work for Cisco.  Now, here is the tech specs of the server for those interested (the cluster on which this test was run):
 
Three Dedicated, 2U each, Servers with the following identical configuration on each one:
 
Supermicro X9Dri-LN4+
PROC        Intel Xeon (Sandy Bridge Chipset) E5-4620 Quad-Socket, Hex-Core (48 Logical Processors) @ 2.00GHz each (96GHz per server)
MEM           128GB RAM (server0) 128GB (server1) 192GB (server2)
ETH            Utilizing 6 - 1Gb, 2-10Gb and 2-100Mbit NICs per server; configured as follows:
                      Public (Internet) - 6 Bonded gigabit NICs with individual port profiles at the upstream switch and Active LACP (link aggregation) enabled on the servers with load balancing and distribution via IP Hash algorithm.
                      Private (Internal network) - 2 individual 10Gig with zero link aggregation but using multiple failover modes and logical seperation with both VLANs and PVLANs and intra-server, non-routed communication via layer 2 VXLANs (virtual eXtensible lans...which make non-physically connected networks behave as if they were all connected to the same switch...then the same subnet without routing is able to be used...plus adds a huge layer of security).  The private network is mainly for SAN and iSCSI and management/intraserver traffic
                     802.1q (QinQ) functionality is provided using two 100Mbit uplinks which enable STP (spanning tree protocol) and Cisco portfast configs to be immediately learned by the upstream switches (e.g. a VM powers on and has a different MAC address than the previous occupant of the associated IP address, typically the upstream switch tables would take from 20-60 seconds to update, whereby the port would not be "up" until the switch updated...portfast and the QinQ allows immediate failover and MAC learning .... thus, only need 100Mbit cards for this since it is simply "telling" the upstream switches (2 of them, hence two cards) the virtual environment network parameters).
 
STORAGE     20TB shared Network attached storage (NFS, iSCSI, SMB, etc) and 5TB local (RAID striped and mirrored) per server
 
Currently the three host servers in this cluster are configured for fault tolerance and transparent failover of any VM that operates on it and, on average, there are approximately 100 virtual machines running at any given point in time with average host utiliztion of about 10% CPU and 30-50% RAM and around 110Mbps 24h average network transfer on the public network and 700Mbps average on the private network with peak of around 1200Mbit public and 7500Mbit private (during backups, vmotion, etc).  This puts the system at a very cool 10% overall load average (plenty of room for more VMs)
 
There are 7 Windows server 2008R2 boxes, 5 Win server 2012R2, about 25 Linux web and file servers and then the standard infrastructure of SQL, Oracle DB servers and etc.  Also running is our new Virtual desktop platform with linked clones which provide "thin client" access of Windows 7 Enterprise machines through HTML5 or Horizon View PCoIP via IPSEC VPN access.
 
Basically, I explained all of that in order to say that computers today are so unbelievably powerful, that with some basic simple tweaking, you can get unreal performance out of them.  I mean, there were 30 other "computers" running on the same host that this SUSE box was running on, simultaneously, and the performance is still mind blowing.
 
SIETEC over and out...later

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