CA3LE

sounds great, i'd love to see the symmetrical numbers working better. My up is normally always faster than my down

sign me up please, im very interested.

Hi all, just thought id post about my internet, I've had this for 3 years now
I had to pay for the tower to be built
Its a 40 meter Tower with a microwave dish on it.
It has line of sight to a base station owned by the ISP
 https://www.yurika.com.au/capabilities/telecoms/
the base station is 19km away.
i have a 1Gbps/1Gbps connection.
it is uncontested and has dedicated access to Tier 1 National Internet backbone .
also unlimited data.
Business connection
I live in a rural area hence the setup.
On other speedtest apps i normally score over 900/900, but here im scoring only 300's on my upload.
 
 
 
 

You are a gentleman & a scholar, sir.  
 
Honestly, since I joined TMN back in the stone ages, THIS is why I love this site. @CA3LE , D,  you are one of the most devoted site owners I've ever met. I've run websites, forums, hosted game & P2P servers, speed test servers (from home) etc. & I have yet to find a more "human" proprietor than you. To be able to speak directly with the mad man, via forum messenger, AOL IM (lol) or hit you up on text... is mind blowing. Modest/humble as @CA3LE is, testmy.net is no small website. The forums, sadly, could be more active... but the website is KNOWN. From your average pc user/builder, to mega corporations, rely on testmy.net for accurate & impartial networking testing & troubleshooting! I do digress, once again to have a real friendship, & leader such as @CA3LE has been an honor... well before I even joined the forums in...... '04(??) 
 
Thank you again D, for all that you do & continue to improve on. You are the real MVP!
 
 
 
 

 
 

 
 

There's a setting for that.  Looked like genuine blips and outages from what I could see.  You'd run find for a while then have bursts of outages... then run fine again for days.
 
Keep in mind, the entire time I'm running the same exact sensor as you are, 24/7/365.  Mine only goes off when my connection is down.  While I was watching yours go down mine was running perfectly.
 
Hopefully those issues clear up for you.  Your testing with My Sensor gave me a lot of insight, I'll keep developing on that program.  I can't wait to share that, but when it's ready.
 
This beta is unrelated to My Sensor.  It's for everything else.
 
It's also very close.  Really, I could have you all start playing with it today.  But the same could have been said a month ago and I've probably written 4X more code since then.  Truth is, it's never finished.  But at some point I need to let you guys play with it.   
 
I'm just getting to the point where it's so predictable it's boring.  Which is good, it's doing what I expect... every time.  Running in my lab conditions, it should do that.
 
So it's getting very close.
 
For anyone reading this, I want to provide a little context.  May 2019 @xs1 requested an upload test that would more accurately test his extreme upload speed.  100 MB single thread has its limitations.  I've done a lot to make it work better (especially since 2019) but a different test is needed.  So slept on it, then promptly built a new proof of concept.  @xs1 probably remembers me telling him that I made a concept and that I'd work on getting it developed into the site.
 
Then Clown World 2020 happened and turned the world upside down.
 
I kept going back and looking at the concept, but it's hard to write when everything around all of us is burning.
 
My timestamps show that I started editing the file again on Feb 12th 2023.  And since then I've completely rebuilt the speed test from the ground up.  I retained important methods and methodology that make TestMy.net unique but built it all around entirely new framework.  Past re-builds have been forks of the original... the new version is a fork of the proof of concept I built for @xs1, peppered with the original.  Starting at line 0.
 
That one file is now branches of easy to maintain resources and it's final integration was super smooth.  Smoothest ever.  Things I didn't plan for all just happened to line up perfectly.  Integrated with the legacy auto test, database results and email notification system easily.
 
Of course each version is supposed to be better than the last but I feel this one is so far advanced compared to my past releases... the improvements are night and day but it still feels like TestMy.net.  I feel like if I just visited for the first time and knew nothing about computers... I'd understand what was happening.  Where the current version, I'm not so sure.  Something that's hard for me to judge because I built it.
 
So everything new with the upcoming beta was built in less than 2 months.  A totally insane, super fun 2 months.  I've learned so much.  Thanks @xs1. 
 
I really hope you all enjoy the fruit.  My best programming yet.
 
I'll start making the beta group official and get this released for you all to test very soon.

Where do I sign-up for the 680Mbps/41Mbps... I'm ready!

I want in. Please.

Are you using Wi-Fi with your television? 
 
Honestly TV's have a sub-par network interface to begin with. Short of hard-wired ( lan cable) there is little that can be done about network consistency on a tv, primarily because they were not designed to do daily networking tasks... other than periodic updates and small software/firmware updates.  Recently I watched a vid, which I found interesting that I'll share.
 
 
 

I'd be happy to help out.

I'd love to test the new tools if you're still looking for volunteers!

I wanted to say Yes Definitely but i could only choose one LOL 

That's why your my boi blue!! 

You're the first person I plan on contacting.  Gives you a lot to play with, a lot you've been requesting for a long time.

Was a bug, displaying correctly now.
 
The program that draws those images is ancient.  The database it draws from is ancient (2005)... it's never been altered. It quickly grew too large to easily alter.  This was my first attempt at databasing anything so mistakes were made.  Over the years I needed to alter it.  But instead I've worked some tricks to maintain the original database.
 
I now have other databases working together with smarter layouts.  But that old tool is tied to the root database.
 
The reason it's come up just now is because usually multithread is tagged internally as "TX", it now tags as the individual locales.  That share image program was looking for that as a signal to change the size calculation... because (in that specific database) the size is stored differently depending on the situation.  This was done to overcome a character limitation design flaw in the database structure.
 
So basically in the same field 200 can mean 200 MB or 200 kB... lol.
 
I could have just deleted the database but didn't want people to lose results.  Could've done a very time consuming import/export.  Altering would have crashed my servers, I just wasn't set up to alter a database table that large at the time.  There are ways I can do it now but I don't think it's necessary.  "If it ain't broke..."
 
Max test size when that was first designed was 12 MB.  Of course I knew it would grow but I was naive with databasing.  Didn't know about int vs smallint values yet.  --- once I knew, my correction was to work around what I already had.  18 years later, your results are still saved.
 
My first logged result

 

chu' kno you can count me in

Not currently.
 
The program was closed for use outside of TestMy.net, years ago.
 
I'm deep in development on a new speed test, built fresh from the ground up.  With its release I may offer a software dev kit with the option to host on your own hardware.
 
A private beta will be opened first shortly followed by the public beta.  The SDK might be made available right out of the gate.  I want as many people running this as possible.
 
I opened a new topic for anyone interested in early access. 
 
 

Been wonderfully consistent and mostly trouble free.

Hello rebrecs, good to see you're still visiting!
 
When you run a speed test it generates random information.  This information is cleared from your cache as soon as the test is complete.
 
Nothing is stored on your device and all data sent to testmy.net (e.g. during an upload test) is randomly generated fake information.
 
Actually, I recently tested the operation to ensure this is still working properly.  By watching the browser's cache folder size during the test you can see its size increase and then sharply drop off after the test completes.  Giving back all of the temporary storage used during the test.
 

They're tinkering with the local mast for a few days and just noticed 5g appear on my phone although reception is a bit flaky at the moment even if I switch to 4g. Hopefully that's temporary .
 

I'm preparing to do something, but I'm not sure what, just yet. Until the fog lifts, I'm just asking questions.
I would prefer to ask well formed questions, but I'm a long way from there. Apologies in advance.
 
When SpeedTest is doing the "partial Logo thing," what is it doing ? I guess the better question is , what does Speed test put on my system, and where does it put it ?
Does speedtest put any code on the Machine under test? Or just data chunks ?
And the motivation fo all of that is - does the test data ever wind up on a disk (on the system under test)
 
I wish I were a PHP expert, and an HTTP expert - so time consuming.... I admire those who are such experts.

Thanks.

At times, perhaps because there is a timeout (?), no data is returned.  When the details are graphed out, they are continuous and just skip missing data and treat it as though there was no gap in the time period.

I'm trying to show my ISP when their performance is slow, or when there are total gaps in it, but these graphs and data results don't help to document when a report could not / was not generated.  In several cases I have documented this to be when other available speediest are either timing out or showing grossly underperforming speed.  There was a 4-5 hour gap in the data this morning, and I have no clue whether the utility was timing out or if something else was going on.

Thanks!

It continued to not work yesterday, but everything seems to be working fine now. I think the issue may have been on my end, although I'm not sure what. Regardless, I thank you for the help and for the swift reply! Have a nice day, and may God bless you.