CA3LE

Hi Matt,
  Thanks for visiting.  Have you tried the speed test server in Singapore?  I know that's still a little ways away but I've seen people in AU pulling decent speeds from there.   I'm sure I'll have a server there soon.  It's only been a few months since I released the program to anyone who has a server and servers are already popping up all over the place.  If you have a webserver in AU or know of someone who does you can easily setup a mirror of your own.  You can have it privately for your own use or share it with others.  It will work great even with a simple VPS server.  Just go to https://testmy.net/make-a-speed-test -- contact me after you've started the process and you can have your own server running in no time.  If you decide to do that it will be at least a week before I can finish the setup on my end, I'm leaving for Monument Colorado in the morning to take some much needed time off.   I appreciate the support.  If you like what I've built, my labor of love, please spread the word.  TestMy.net is word-of-mouth and I rely on my visitors to keep it going.   Kind Regards & Happy Testing!   - Damon Mueller - TestMy.net  
 
Hi again Matt,
  Thanks for the congratulations.  I also forgot to say your welcome in my previous email.  I've been building my site since I was 16 years old... I'm 31 now.  It means a lot to me when people give me positive feedback.  Makes the countless nights of programming worth it when I know it's helping people.  Feedback keeps me pushing to build a better, more powerful system.   50-100 /megabit, geeze!  Bandwidth is definitely expensive in Australia.  South Africa is another place that's really expensive.  A dedicated box isn't necessary though. Of course it would be better but to tell you the truth even my own mirrors are single core VPS with only 1GB RAM. (my home server however is a very powerful dual hex core xeon, 24 processing threads, 16GB RAM and RAID 5 SSD... but that server has a TON of database work it does constantly and it also handles a large majority of the testing).  I've developed the program to require minimal resources.  My main server does most of the heavy lifting and what resides on your server is a lightweight controller.  My mirrors average 0.00 load despite heavy use... it's so stable that I've had servers with indefinite up times.  Most of my servers I have on right now have never been rebooted because all they run is my program.. it's super stable and doesn't require much to do the job right.  The most important factor is the uplink.  100 Mbps or 1000 Mbps uplink is recommended.  Hopefully linking into a provider with at least 1x10G.  Also, if you have an option to do so... pick the fastest hard drive solution available.  If you have SAS available, go with that.  As for the amount of space, it's minimal, 25GB SAS is what I have on my own VPS mirrors.  Hard drive performance can impact the results at REALLY high speeds, so heads up.
It would be really cool to have an Aussie server available for my users.  The amount of bandwidth drawn depends on how many people like the server.  Over time as more people realize that there is an AU server you'd get more and more traffic to it.  Most people will still use my servers however so I wouldn't expect more than 1-10GB/day of transfer.  If bandwidth is an issue the mirror can be made private, a cap can be set or you can turn it off on your end or by emailing me any time.  So far, everyone who's had concerns about that hasn't had an issue.  
  Hosting a mirror can help drive traffic to your site too.  Especially once I pull the program out of beta and make it more known that the mirrors exist   Bandwidth will go up a little once I make them more known too... but so will your link exposure.  On the results page and test page there is a link to your site and clicks from that could result in conversions for your business.  It will at the very least drive a little traffic.   By the way, this is completely free to you and your visitors... just like everything I offer.  In the future you'll also be able to co-brand it with your logo, modify the layout to resemble your site and call upon the program within your site.  I've barely scratched the surface of my plans with that branch of my site.  What I have released right now is just a proof of concept and starting point for a much larger concept. I hope you stick around and watch it develop over time.   Let me know when you're ready.  And don't you worry, I'll have a great break!  Feel free to email me even though I'm away...  I can still help you and answer any questions.  I'll probably have some downtime while I'm there and it only takes me a few minutes to set that up for you once you're got your end finished.  It will only have to wait if you're having issues setting it up.   Cheers, - Damon   P.S.   By the way, have you tried the multithread speed test I offer?  I was just looking over some speeds in AU and saw some people with some really good scores using that method.  When you use the multithread test it pulls the information from all of my US servers simultaneously .. so the resulting score is very comprehensive.  You might want to try that.   Turn this feature on and off by visiting >> https://testmy.net/multithread  ... I just created this a couple weeks ago so it's not well known yet.  TestMy.net is the only speed test that's able to test from multiple locales at the same time.  In the near future I'll expand this to all my mirrors (done) and give users the option to test from their own selection of servers.  You'll be able to test pulling data from all of my servers world-wide at the same time if you want to... giving you a resulting score that represents your Internet speed across the globe.  Pretty cool huh?   Personally, when I turn on multithread I'm able to pull up to 30Mbps of extra speed, due to the fact that my provider to at my home is limiting single thread transactions.  Lots of ISPs are doing that.  Another thing that TMN is able to pick up on that other speed tests don't notice. The classic method is also able to passively detect more issues that can slow you down.  So it's not a replacement to my normal test... it's just a different way to render the data.   Thought I'd let you know about that, - Damon  
Australia Speed Test

Welcome to testmy.net Don

Sounds like your on the right track! Keep us updated on your situation I would love to hear how it plays out

-mark

I'm on TWC Cincinnati. The first of the year they upgraded their services. I'm on the turbo 15 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up plan. Since the first of the year, I've had pretty consistent results testing here showing that they are meeting the 15 Mbps down. I get about 0.8 Mbps up speeds measured here. Prior to the first of the year upgrade, I was only getting about 8 Mbps down and the same 0.8 up speed I got prior to the upgrade. Their old plan said up to 10 Mbps, and I very rarely ever got 10 except for an occasional burst. The newer service is consistently right around the 15 Mbps speed they advertise. This upgrade was likely only for the TWC Cincinnati area though. Your results may be worse if the equipment and service they're providing you is like the older equipment was here. They didn't change my cable modem, only the service on their stuff outside my house.

I've used this service to test a newly subscribed TWC, "up to 20 mb/s" ISP service. The "up too" should have ben a red flag but the at&t (bellsouth) "fast access DSL" infrastructure in my neighborhood could not provide > 1.5 mb/s, my chosen at&t long distance phone service was NOT unlimited and with the packaged Directv service included, with no premium channels, cost about $185/mos.
 
TWC "up to 20 mb/s" internet with unlimited long distance and cable, including Showtime is costing about $153/mos. A promo price but a pretty good deal huh? Aside from the relative immunity to heavy rain and maybe snow (don't get much of that here) TWC sucks in comparison to Directv; in channel choices, the reliability of the CISCO cable interface box, their menu, channel choice, search and record functions are awkward, unwieldy and antiquated when compared to Directv or Comcast, others I've had extensive and limited experience with respectively. You get what you pay for.
 
In addition there are numerous, daily reminders of what the "up to" means. Using Time Warners speed test function, download speeds considerably below 1 mb/s are often encountered; especially annoying when the video that's captured your interest suddenly freezes. Measured download performance upwards from 10 mb/s on a single user, home wireless network is convincing evidence that these wide ranging speed anomalies are not caused by in house problems. Performance has also been tested with a direct to cable modem connection with identical results.
 
Upload speeds are adequate, consistently around 1.9 mb/s, and have not been a problem.
 
That long winded introduction is why I joined testmy.net. I intend to run automated speed tests on a daily basis and present the data to TWC technical. My expectations are very low but, for what it's worth, they will be shared with the members on this forum who may be having similar problems.
 
Don D.
 
 
 

it's retained but you must query the test ID, clicking the ID on results (in the details below the graph) with TiP will show the details. I'll make export on that data available for you soon.

btw, nice sig!

Oh sweet , I've not noticed that

After several years on and off, learning console commands for openvz, getting frustrated with the ever changing and problematic clustering of HN's , I've found a sweet spot, proxmox.

Nothing I have used , have worked this flawless and stable, of course ESXi is something I've only dabbled in , where vspere is costly, proxmoxVE is open to the public much in the same way RHEL / centOS is.

As an example:
At the moment I've move the minecraft server into a VM, allocated 2 CPU's and 2GB ram, where previously mines Crux used 4 CPU's and 8 GB ram, now running virtually with less than half core resources, no complaints from the users either. Of course the new minecraft server is turnkey, which all together simply outperforms crux ten fold, at least in this environment.

Getting started on migrating windows server 2008 on the second node, which of course should be a blast in itself, but hey it's windows, so we'll deal with the overly complicated malarky.

On another note, you can either create a VM or CT, openvz will use KVM and as always CT's can only use openVZ kernels. None the less installing windows7 as a VM is a breeze, I was amazed at how the system automatically sets up the bridge and virti0 interfaces, duh-me ? Simple and easy. With a plethora of templates instantly downloadable, proxmox is king at the moment in my eye's.

You might be thinking 'sounds like proxmox has taken all the control out of your hands and automated it , just the opposite actually, don't expect to image and run , you'll need to do a bit of background on basic usage. proxmox here and now is combining the best of todays virtual solutions into one UI that rivals the best, in fact they use the best, built on the very same technology as the best.

Five out of five stars Proxmox 3.0 !!!!

BTW , support is the least costly of anything that comes close , well , nothing really comes close at the moment. For less than 10US/ month if you choose. Amazing !!!!!

CA3LE,
 
?1/ Is the TiP Data and Variance being captured/retained within TMN results db? …since you implemented TiP?
 NB: TiP Data is data points and MIN|MID|MAX values ]
 
IF TiP in db
2/ Results Data Export _suggestion_ Include just the TiP Variance
 
Thanks

No problem, here are the current TestMy.net servers and IP addresses.
testmy.net :: (75.126.77.87) tmnstatic.com :: (108.162.199.197) [serves the sites static content such as javascript, css and images] dc.testmy.net :: (50.22.241.82) [Washington D.C.] west.testmy.net :: (50.22.191.251) [seattle, WA] eu.testmy.net :: (5.10.86.18) [Europe / Amsterdam, NL] asia.testmy.net :: (119.81.41.242) [Asia / Singapore, SG] Also...   

Beat this...
 

 
:::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 273616 Kbps or 273.6 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 200 MB or 204800 kB or 209715200 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 34202 kB/s or 34.2 MB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/1IylJsq
TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 163.84 Mbps | Middle Avg 322.63 Mbps | Max 323.88 Mbps | 39% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 163.84 Mbps, 318.35 Mbps, 274.14 Mbps, 268.44 Mbps, 310.11 Mbps, 311.27 Mbps, 307.28 Mbps, 317.15 Mbps, 312.42 Mbps, 313.01 Mbps, 323.88 Mbps, 312.42 Mbps, 289.76 Mbps, 299.06 Mbps, 307.28 Mbps, 309.54 Mbps, 305.6 Mbps, 282.44 Mbps, 313.59 Mbps
More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/CA3LE https://testmy.net/compID/46056110242
Test Time:: 2013-03-04 15:11:27 Local Time
Location:: Dallas, TX US >> Destination:: Dallas, TX US
1MB Download in 0.03 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~1 Minutes - 4886X faster than 56K
This test of exactly 204800 kB took 6.134 seconds to complete
Running at 552% of hosts average (SoftLayer Technologies https://testmy.net/hoststats/softlayer_technologi)
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Ubuntu; Linux x86_64; rv:19.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/19.0 [!]

They recommend changing filters every year or two BTW so you probably have bad ones walmart also carries them for 8.99 I believe

I have a small office network. Everytime the fax machine rings our internet shuts down. We have voip phone system so the phones switch down too. I have changed the modem router but this didn't make any difference. Once the fax has made its connection the internet drops out and once transmission is over a few seconds later it comes back on. Why is this?

Hey CA3LE, just letting you know that they finally resolved the isslue. Tech support was useless even with the new information, and it took multiple calls to get them to send a technician out. When I complained, someone changed a setting on the line that made it stop working at all, and tried to tell me it was still working. "We cannot change it back. Your line is good sir!" They even tried to say that if it's not the modem, the testing sites must be at fault, even though other people were getting good results in the logs. Your explanation gave me confidence that it wasn't a problem with my modem, and we were correct. After a couple hours of troubleshooting, working on the equipment outside, and the tech having people on the phone do things like "change the atm path", he finally realized it was a bad line card in the box where the fiber and phone line connect. After replacing that card everything is working again.
Here are the new test results:
https://testmy.net/compID/992214742650
 
Not as fast as I'd like, but probably as good as it will get with the current setup. As you can see there are still speed differences between servers, but nothing drastic. Thanks again for this website.

I have an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station wireless router and it has the USB port on it. The Mac OS recognized it right away, and I don't know why Windows wouldn't either in this day and age. It's pretty handy. I bought a 2 TB and partitioned it into 2 x 1 TB drives, one for me, and one for the wife. Both partitions showed up fine.

It's a little more expensive but Apple's referb program is awesome. I got my mini from that program years ago and it never had a single issue. ... that machine has been turned off only twice in the past ~4 years. I highly recommend going that route for a headache free transaction without the risks private party purchases have. You have to keep checking back and grab the computer your looking for as soon as you see it listed. It took me two weeks to find the mini I wanted but I saved a couple hundred off the normal price... Sometimes referbs are better because if they were returned for an issue they get sent back out with updated, better parts. Sometimes they were never even opened, for instance, a Grandpa buys his grandson a mini but the kid wants an iMac... Apple takes that return and resells it as a referb even though it was never opened.

Like I told you... I'll help you with it. You just need to save up at least half. Just make sure you keep your grades up and stay out of trouble. Which is easy for you.

I forwarded this to my Nephew Darrick, he knows a lot about current video cards... he should reply soon.

Been a while since I bought a video card, so you that are in the know might get to help me yes ?
 
PCI
budget around $200
windows 7 compatible
 
I have looked around quite a bit, yet knowing the technology from 5 or more years ago does not help me make an educated decision. 
 
So any help will be greatly appreciated. Any questions you need to ask about the existing hardware?
 
What say you ?
 
thanks

Not a problem, you're welcome. Looks like you're getting normal speed to Dallas TX and Seattle WA. That information will help them... note that all of my official mirrors are constantly monitored and quality tested against each other... everything is running smoothly on my end. The discrepency between the servers almost always points to routing issues. Especially because the difference is so drastic and the fact that you're able to pull your speed to some servers.

Let us know how it goes.


If you don't understand what routing and peering are here's an offsite Article explaining routing and peering I found on Google. Also wikipedia has lots of good information on the subject, http://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peering#How_peering_works

Hi CA3LE! Thanks for providing this free service, and for the quick reply. I took your advice and did the test on each official mirror:
https://testmy.net/quickstats/Zabeus
So I'll see what AT&T has to say now.

Hi,
 
This is just a suggestion that I think might help non-technical people make sense of those speeds display. In average most internet users have download or upload a file at least once, so my point is that people better understand their speed when it relate to the amount of time it will take them to upload or download some staff. For example let say if your speed is 3Mbps then it will take you x amount of time to download a 700MB movie, or y amount of time to download a 3MB MP3 file, or z amount of time to download a 10MB file attachement. The same should apply to the upload as well. I think with that information the user can then appreciate the various speed that are offered by the ISP. Hope this help.

I want to build iOS and Android apps for TestMy... but I still don't get it. Why use an app for something that can be done through the browser? Is it that hard to type "testmy.net" --- hell, in many cases you can just type "testmy"... why waste your local resources? Let my server run most of the program for you. ...am I missing something? Am I getting too old to get it?

Do people like having a bunch of crap they need to update all the time? I just hope that the world realizes one day that you don't need apps... AT ALL... FOR ANYTHING. (except offline) That goes for personal computers as well. Everything can be done through the browser, especially more so in the future.

I'm trying my hardest to design this website to just run in any web browser and I'm constantly evolving the program. If you're looking for a speed test app for your Android or iOS device you'd do better to just open your default web browser and bookmark testmy.net... easy as that. Nothing to download, no security permissions to mess with and updates are transparent.

So please, let's open this for discussion. Why waste your disk space? If you can sell me on the idea of why TestMy needs a mobile app, I'll build it. Seriously. --- Think about this first, the benefit of having apps versus a website in many cases is the offline ability they have... what's the point of a speed test app if you're not online.

... come on, sell me... I dare you.

- CA3LE

Hi Pgoodwin1,

I haven't really written a change log... I try to leave it to my users to find what's changed. To tell you the truth, it would take me a lot of time to sit and think of everything that I've changed. I have been trying to think of all the changes for an up coming community mailer and I'm having a hard time thinking of everything. I could either write about it... or build it. You have to realize that besides the help in the forums that my Mods provide... I have have to do every aspect of TMN myself. From server administration and dealing with advertisers to programming, design and lots of writing. I'm a one man operation. I type pretty fast but there is never enough hours so I have to balance my time efficiently. Now you might think, "Uh, you could have told me the changes in the time it took you to type that paragraph..." -- but not really, I would really have to sit back and really think about all the changes. When I get into the zone programming I kinda don't remember what I've done by the time it's all finished. It just kinda comes off my fingertips without my real knowledge of what I've done... kinda weird to tell you the truth. I still have a lot of changes coming down the pipe too, so anything I write about that's changed could be different tomorrow. Once I've written prerequisites for certain aspects, I could flip the whole script the next day. Just keep visiting and browse around, things are always changing, you just have to pay attention. Sometimes it backend programming, sometimes it's client-side and much more noticeable. But I'm ALWAYS building for TMN.

You've been able to change the query by days for a while... and also have been able to filter by upload and download results. Before the up/down filter was controlled only by the small up and down arrow in the header of the results table...



I didn't think that this was being noticed by people so I added the extra links for it.



... note that you can always sort your results by the links in the header of the results table.



... When I say Java goodies, I mean javascript not Sun Java. All of the additions are completely compatible with all modern browsers and devices. I really stress on compatibility and stay away from requiring users to have anything special installed. Vanilla browsers is what I build for. When people visit the site, ideally they all get the same experience... this new layout definitely fits that bill. I design on an iMac by the way... but I also run various versions of Windows and Linux and have emulation for various versions of iPhone, iPad and Android all on the same computer so I'm able to see things on a variety of environments. The only feature that isn't compatible with iPad and iPhone is the copy to clipboard function... because it uses flash and iPad/iPhone have no support for flash. But if the client doesn't have flash installed that feature doesn't show.

You've definitely got the right idea.  Try to keep everything the same.  Before you start, have the new router ready to plug in.  You want to try to test at around the same time of day, closest to the same time as possible... using the same test server.  In your case you want to check the difference between routers.  To avoid network activity from other clients effecting the results only connect one computer to test with.  
 
Run a few tests, using the 'extra identifier' can make it easy to tell the difference between your results.
 

 
Give each set of results any name you want... later you can filter your results if you want to make it easier to compare.
 

 
Note: For comparison purposes I recommend selecting your test size manually from either the download test, upload test or automatic test.  You want to select the same size each time to provide the most accurate comparison.  Pick a size larger than SmarTest usually gives you... a longer test is better, 10 to 15 seconds is usually pretty thorough (Anything beyond 30 seconds is probably just going to waste your time and both of our bandwidth).  Selecting the test options that size automatically can produce more varied results than a consistant size.  ... again, like you said, less variables are better for what you're trying to accomplish.
 
After you have established a baseline with your current configuration swap the cables, turn on the router, change the identifier to something else if you want and test again.  You should quickly and easily be able to tell which one performed best.  

Greetings,
 
Hope everyone enjoyed their holiday. Quick question - I just set up an access point downstairs in my house. My primary wireless router is upstairs. The second wireless router is downstairs (hardwired to primary router), on a different channel, with the DHCP disabled, and a static IP address assigned that is outside of the range of our dynamic IP addresses assigned by primary router.
 
My question is how can I test that this has created an improvement in the speed downstairs (by extending the range). I would think I could sit in one spot and test the speed with the secondary router inactive and then again with it active.
 
What do you guys think?
 
Thank you,
DuBose

How long is the test taking when that happens?  Do you have any Internet security programs, it could be messing with the method the upload test uses.  I looked over recent results and the issue is localized to you.  I pulled the last few thousand upload results and didn't see anyone else with 1 Kbps.
 
Usually the only time I see 1 Kbps here is when something has gone wrong.  1 Kbps is kinda a fall back score when it's unable to get the information it needs.  You may have run into some sort of bug... although this usually points to a software issue on the client end.  Please run an upload speed test of around 2MB and take note of the amount of time it takes... from the time the loading data box disappears until the time it leaves that page.  I'm seeing that some other data from your results didn't log correctly...
 
Also, try clearing your history, cookies in particular.  Then re-test.
 
It might just be that you've got something installed that's effecting the way form data is posted.  Very well could be the issue since other form posted variables are missing from your logged results.  I think that some Internet security suites block the method because it looks malicious, I understand why they see it that way.  It's submitting form data automatically, to them it might look like a phishing method or something.  But the truth is, you're running a test... everything is completely safe.  Deemed safe by all the people that use this service.  It's not usually an issue with most setups, most antivirus and security programs pass the methods I use.  But I have seen issues before.  I'd think it would be systemwide and effect all browsers but maybe not.  Guess it depends on what you've got going on.  It looks to me that it has removed the data from the form... then submitted it blank.  Probably in an attempt to clear the form in case it was malicious and was trying to submit your personal information.  I assure you, it doesn't do anything like that.  Anyone with basic HTML knowledge can stop the test, view the source and see that it's only submitting variables and strings related to the test.
 
You tested moments earlier in IE and got two results in a row that were 1.87 Mbps on the dot... your speed isn't 1 Kbps.  Hit me back, hopefully we can nail down why that's happening.
 
If it is an Internet security suite that's blocking the method I'd like to know which one so I can contact them to hopefully whitelist TestMy.net.  Some out there already have TMN on whitelist but others don't.
 
Feedback from people like you has played a huge part in the development of this site. Your input is greatly appreciated.
 
-D