CA3LE

I re checked just to make sure. Windows 8 is still so bad people are not even bothering to steal it. 

I do not remember who got such a tickle out of that when I said it the first time. Think they said they were gonna use it in there signature. 
 
When I saw your comments about windows 8 being so bad, just thought it would be funny to repeat what I said last time about it. 

There will be multiple / mass delete and select options in the next database upgrade. I should have that for you all soon. But no, I'm not at all concerned about the space taken up. I encourage my users to never delete records. It's kinda cool to look back your history. Especially once you've gathered years of results. I'm more concerned about my bandwidth... Storage is never an issue. My main server has 500 GB free on raid 5 SSD... It will take billions of entries before space would be an issue. Bandwidth on the other hand...

I'm going to have to order 10+ TB in advance for next month if I want to get it at half price. Luckily the public supports my advertisers so I can afford the kind of hosting this site needs to be accurate and also support so many users. ... thanks everyone. I promise to continue developing this as well as upgrading my hardware and networking as demand rises. Traffic to TestMy.net is hitting harder than it has in many years... I figure without changing anything I can comfortably support 5X current traffic. Well over 100k users a day. And if we need more test resource... I'll put it online in an instant. Just keep spreading the word. TestMy.net is word-of-mouth only. I appreciate the support.

I seem to be able only to do them one at a time with Chrome.  Is there anyway to delete old results en masse or is no one concerned about the server space they take up?  Thanks  Jack  ":-D

if its 12Mbps over wifi that is a completely different problem and has nothing to do with the cable company when your wifi card connects to the router it has a sync rate all its own if the modem is a router/modem combo which it sounds like it is it still has nothing to do with your cable company if you get 30-50Mbps when connected directly to the modem via a ethernet cable
 
your neighbor getting .92Mbps from his 5Mbps line is completely different from trying to expect 50Mbps from your wifi
 
if you expect to get 50Mbps from wifi you'd have to be sync'd with your router at over 100Mbps
 
do you happen to know what type of wireless your trying to use? wireless G? wireless N? also if the modem/router combo is using backwards compatible mode to be able to connect wireless G and N devices at the same time wireless N will operate no faster then the wireless G standards max speed
 
wifi has a lot of things to keep in mind and a lot of things can interfere with wifi.. i'm assuming your using 2.4GHz band if that's true there is interference everywhere... even 2.4GHz wireless handsets, bluetooth, and cell phones, and microwaves can all interfere
 
if you can provide me with a little info i should be able to better assist you and not guess so much

I don't know what to say. I was strict about not giving into their hype. I was happy with my Verizon phone and Directv. But was always down about the copper wire DSL thing with Verizon. We have no FIOS and almost as much as been told don't expect it. After 5 years of waiting I finally got the hook in the jaw when the guy came to the door 3 times. I let him in and when he said he'd give me 50mbps, and I was only getting .5 to 1mbps if lucky, that was it, I'M IN! So I took the Triple Play, Xfinity I guess it's now called.
 
Now he was talking direct connection and I am talking wireless in my head. I might have asked him about the wireless but he did, to his credit, say that in extremes you may experience as low as 30mbps. So I thought hey that's still good. So I bought in. They set me up and for some reason with this new HP desktop Pavilion I was getting 50mbps faithfully and wireless even being 15 feet from the modem. This was great for 2 weeks and then something happened and it dropped off. Using Comcast's test I was getting 28mbps, below their promise of 30mbps under extremes. Then it's dropped down to 12 at times. After several techs and a new Arris DOCCIS 3 compliant modem there is no change and no explanation why I was getting such good speeds for the first 2 weeks. After testing here at testmy.net I feel I have real reliable numbers. Today Comcasts speedtest had posted over 30mbps, not bad, and now down to 28. But here it says more around 19mbps, which I feel is reliable. A far cry from 50mbps. To be sure, their "OUT" is that I am getting the 50 direct connected to the modem. I live in an old cul de sac in a small town and there is no interference. No one above or below or beside me. The house closest to me and the modem is empty. I have no explanation and they are tired I suspect of hearing from me. I too am tired of hearing me.

You know what bugs me. Now they are saying that 12-15mbps is all I could expect with the modem 15 feet away. And here's another thing in my crawl. I have a friend across the street that I do maintenance on his computer.  He has the old Verizon DSL at .5 to 1mbps and I can connect to him consistently and get a .92mbps consistently and he's only promised 1mbps at the best. So old slow Verizon DSL is sustainable, but big Xfinity cannot get me from a 50mbps at the modem to the pc 15 feet away at any better than 12mbps. This is not what I thought I was buying into. If there were not some advantages I like on the phone and the cable tv service I think I would have bolted before the first month was out.

Is there any possibility that someone has found some resolution to something similar?  Thanks so much! jack  ":-|

I know it's been a while, so here's the followup:
 
After trying pretty much everything...  New drivers, cloned drive and drastic experiments, etc...  NOTHING helped to fix this problem under Snow Leopard.  I did see that my Macbook Pro that usually had good test results would do the same thing briefly--So it would show fast, then slow if I *immediately* retested, but even then it sped up a little bit partway through the test.
 
So, I bit the bullet and upgraded the MacBook Pro to Mountain lion, and that went relatively smoothly.  The problem seemed to be fully gone (not that it was very prevalent nor noticeable on that machine). 
 
After a day and a half of sorting the update from Snow Leopard to Mountain Lion 10.8.3 (released just last week) on the Hackintosh, I finally have the system running pretty well.
 
Drum roll...
 
YES!  It appears that the problem is a thing of the past.  I now get consistently faster downloads 40Mbps to 60Mbps via tests here.  I can browse, and test, and test multiple times in a row and all works fine.  I do notice things begin zippier in regular browsing as well.
 
So, the bottom line is that if you are on Snow Leopard and are having issues with download speeds, your best option may be to upgrade to Lion/Mountain Loin.  I really did do about everything I could think of to make this work in SL, or I wouldn't have done the update.
 
Hope this helps someone not waste all the time on trying to get it working.
 
THANKS TO ALL WHO SHOWED AN INTEREST AND HAD IDEAS TO SHARE!  I doubt I would have done the ML install without hearing that Lion solved it elsewhere.
 
-Tim
 
PS. Re: wireshark... I haven't gotten it running on ML yet since there wasn't a need.  Apple support site points to xQuartz for X11 installation.  I did that, and didn't get any more messages when starting Wireshark, but it also didn't do anything but sit there in the lower app bar.

Pretty fast with BT Infinity:

 
Just annoying about having to use a Homehub (annoying UI and the DNS server doesn't even work properly). Hopefully another router would work.

Yes this is vague because I'm more used to editing aside from designing databases.
 
I'm working on a database (new) where right now it's not going to be used for much aside collecting basic client data ie~
$aa->whatever-name( 'table_name', 'column1, column2, column3, column4, column5, column6, column7', ':Name, :Email, :Subject, :Phone, :PhoneExtension, :Website, :Message', array( 'Name' => $Name, 'Email' => $Email, 'Subject' => $Subject, 'Phone' => $Phone, 'PhoneExtension' => $PhoneExtension, 'Website' => $Website, 'Message' => $Message ) ); Later I plan to insert this data into a form , then insert the form into a customers account, as well as add column(s) for other obvious client information.
 
My question is knowing this later will be heavily used, would I be better off creating a new table for each user / client than this way. I'm talking performance reasons.
 
I've got one chance to get this right , as I say right now this will only collect new clients as they submit a form for a quote, later I will have to create a script to manually add thousands of clients and their current as well as past customer information. Daunting task ahead , so I  must get this at least close to as simple as possible.
 
 I'm aware this is a basic sql question , but I don't think it will be for long.

I have multiple service providers and want to setup my routing to route TestMy.net activity to go out on a specific port on the firewall. How can I find out the IP ranges used by testmy for the speed tests?
 
Thanks,
 
Mark

Fantastic this will help a lot. I want the speed test to route over my Satellite provider and not my DSL. This will work great for me. I just need to build the routes and I am all set.

Thanks again,

Mark

Belkin USB Used with Asus AC Router

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 [!]

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...   

I'm working on it.  I've wanted to add ping to the results forever.  Every time I start to program that I get sidetracked into something else.  I'll try to get latency included with the upcoming database upgrade.   ... just like the upload progress bar, it's eluded me... but it's mostly because there are so many aspects to this program, it can be hard to get to everything.  But yes, trust me... I want to add ping to the results.  

Hope you like what you see.  It won't fail for high latency.  You'll probably get poor results but it's to be expected.

Just thought I'd say a big hello from someone in the UK who is looking for a decent broadband speedtest site.
 
Hope to speak to folks later.
 
At the moment I'm trying to find out if I can check the download speed of a Satelite connection using the checker on here ? Will it fail because of latency issues ?
 
Anyone help ?

Hi Mike, 
 
 There is one way to find out how much latency is effecting your connection , test at all the servers here at testmy.net  Run a ping and traceroute test to testmy.net, 
 
Post your results so we can get into the middle of it with you yes ?

Hi and welcome.

good evening  Michael ? , or Hi M8 from Biggles UK ,
I am intrigued by a UK Sat connection. v. rare in the UK,
Seen a lot of 56k dialup ,adsl, fibre. Fttc ,Ftth but never Sat ,
that is totally new to me , please post more details ,
But I guess TMN is the right place  for Sat questions , and never did me any harm only
good from  dial up through to Fibre to the cabinet ,


 

Stick around,always somebody around to help you if you need it.

Welcome to testmy.net Keefer21.

This is from my phone on wifi from home...
 


:::.. Internet Speed Test Result Details ..:::
Download Connection Speed:: 12678 Kbps or 12.7 Mbps
Download Speed Test Size:: 6.2 MB or 6336 kB or 6488064 bytes
Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1585 kB/s or 1.6 MB/s
Upload Connection Speed:: 1545 Kbps or 1.5 Mbps
Upload Speed Test Size:: 576 kB or 589824 bytes
Upload Binary File Transfer Speed:: 193 kB/s
Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13
Test Time:: 2013-03-07 20:05:29 Local Time
Location:: Phoenix, AZ US >> Destination:: Dallas, TX US
Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/IH4VYfd.NRD5q4r
TiP Measurement Summary (Download):: Min 6.53 Mbps | Middle Avg 13.27 Mbps | Max 18.72 Mbps | 55% Variance
TiP Data Points:: 9.42 Mbps, 9.07 Mbps, 9.89 Mbps, 10.39 Mbps, 13.76 Mbps, 13.37 Mbps, 12.35 Mbps, 12.32 Mbps, 13.33 Mbps, 18.08 Mbps, 11.51 Mbps, 12.65 Mbps, 15.47 Mbps, 13.14 Mbps, 9.42 Mbps, 16.5 Mbps, 15.68 Mbps, 18.72 Mbps, 6.53 Mbps
More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/tdawnaz https://testmy.net/compID/662182450070
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Linux; U; Android 2.3.4; en-us; LG-P999 Build/GRJ22) AppleWebKit/533.1 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/4.0 Mobile Safari/533.1 MMS/LG-Android-MMS-V1.0/1.2 [!]

Canadian cousins Doh , only kidding I love them to bits ,
as Ca3le says  ( my take )this site has endless deep corners,
I have often posted and said "Doh" ,
just shows how Americanized I have become ,
normaly I would have said , oh dear I have just made a fool of myself  , indeed Doh  saves keybord stokes ,

Keep looking around, there's probably a lot of other stuff you have yet to discover here.