CA3LE

I can't reproduce the issue.  Noticed a couple of issues inside the forum and fixed them.
 
Visiting the site as a member or guest, on different hosts and connections.  Surfing around, testing and everything is operating as expected.  Looking at https://testmy.net/live and test results seem to be flowing normally.
 
Please post a screenshot and include the page URL.
 
Might be a specific device issue and just a coincidence that it's during the updates I'm doing.

Personally, I always use Netgear.
 
I might try the RAX30 -- on sale for $130 right now https://www.amazon.com/NETGEAR-Nighthawk-5-Stream-Router-RAX30/dp/B09BK8PM1M/ -- get a used one fro $84.
 
For mesh, I have one of the early Orbi systems.  Very reliable.  I haven't seen any reason to upgrade.  Got my 10G network on the side so I use it more for wifi and base level router.
 
RBR50 and RBS50 go for less than $80 on eBay.  RBR50 is the router and RBS50 is the satellite unit.  If I had a lot of square feet to cover and wanted nice reliable wifi across the entire area I'd definitely get these again.
 
Significant leaps have been made since but to get the same coverage with an AX system will cost WAY more.  And do you really need it?
 
Personally, my fastest devices are all hardwired.  I don't care as much about wifi.  Wifi I have is fast enough and works reliably.  I value reliability and consistency most.
 
I recently went to my brother-in-law's who has fiber and wifi6.  It was cool, extremely fast right in his main area.  But then I go upstairs and was getting much slower speed, I mean I was directly above the router, just the floor blocking. 
 
I'd rather cover my entire home with a slower stable connection than have one hot spot and a variable/poor connection everywhere else.  Especially if I can save money at the same time.
 
To be clear, he has a decent connection everywhere, I just think an RBR50 and RBS50 would cover it better for less money.  And for most people's daily use... they'd never tell the difference, speed wise.
 
Hell, get the RBR50 and RBS50... then connect a used RAX30 for wifi6 capabilities for the (near by) devices you want to be really fast.  Probably get all 3 on the secondary market for like $220.
 
Bang for your buck.

https://www.asus.com/networking-iot-servers/wifi-routers/asus-gaming-routers/rt-ax82u/
 
💯

Yo,  I'm looking for thoughts and infos on wireless routers, maybe mesh, maybe wifi 6 , help me decide.
 
 

Great!...
Not sure if you've considered a Pro/Paid version, where you could also do notifications via SMS... etc...
(another cool option, and Twilio makes it fairly easy) 
 
 

FYI 404 page not found...
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yes, much better! Thanks

Is there a way to get an alert (email/sms) when my dl/ul falls below a certain threshhold?... for example 5 consecutive d/l below 8Mb/s or 5 consecutive u/l below 300Kb/s, once per every 2 hours?
 
That would be so handy!
 
 

Hi Fred,
 
Let me explain first a little on how this part works on the backend.
 
When you first visit TestMy.net uses your IP address, it creates an anonymous "computer ID". This ID is unique to TestMy.net. TMN generates it based on your IP but for your privacy not even TestMy.net can reverse the number back into an IP from the computer ID alone. When you sign in testmy.net stores the same account details as before, except it points the database to your username. Saving tables by username instead of compID. When client results are queried, by compID or username, the database looks to the user's settings to check the timezone for that client.  
I tried the same test on my own results using my computer ID and encountered a sort of bug. Closer inspection reviled the associated data, pulled from the database, for the GMT offset was showing blank. I then went to a different browser, where I wasn't signed in to check if it was setting the data correctly. The simple action of me hitting that page then fixed the bug by setting that associated data correctly in the database. So it corrected itself. But now I'm like, "what did that?"
 
So I'm not too sure what's happening there. I'm going to have to do testing to find how that got saved in the database as blank. Whatever it is, it effected my own results as well.
 
It's best to make sure you're always signed in when testing and then just share the username results that come up when you click My Results.
 
 
Sorry I don't have much documentation outside of discussion in the forum here. But I encourage people to hack the variables here to make TMN do different things.
 
Sometimes there are clues like &f=1 but there are hundreds of variables that are hidden. Here's an example where you can output ISP speed test results to csv or json.
 
https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable&csvout=1 (outputs full array in CSV)
https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable&csvout=2&monthsback=6 (outputs download, upload and latency averages in CSV)
https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable&csvout=1&easycsv=1 (outputs full array in CSV)
https://testmy.net/hoststats/comcast_cable&csvout=2&easycsv=1&monthsback=6 (outputs download, upload and latency averages in CSV)
 
One of those things I built to help someone in a specific case (researching broadband speed for a project) and never reviled it in the UI. There are entire other layers that tie into that function, it does all kinds of neat things.  Where for instance you enter an array of cities (or ISPs, countries, etc) and it aggregates all of the data. Insanely quick too, fully customizable you can aggregate lists of thousands of cities in a blink... where it's pulling the averages for each individual city and aggregating all of the data together.
 
I spent weeks working with that guy, building a pretty amazing function, one that surprised me... and then shared it with that one guy.  lol, done this too many times to count. I'll have to pull up that conversation to figure out how all of that works again. 🤔 --- and then share it.
 
There are also cases where I build functionality for myself and then never revile it in the UI.
 
&f=1 is a variable that tells the site the content is framed, inside of an iframe. This remove the header and footer on any existing page. Makes things easier to maintain because all code references one code base. Instead of making a separate program to pull stats in that iframe I use the same program but give you a switch you can flip to cause the page to be generated differently. There are ways I could obfuscate or limit this functionality to the client but I like giving you the control... you might want to use it in a different way than I intended but that's the entire idea to how TMN works.
 
 

Try it now and let me know if that helps.

That's what I see in your screenshot, blue download and orange upload. Like always, that's why I'm confused. 😆 

Fantastic work CA3LE ! 👍
Yes, that sounds COMPLETELY plausible (even after several beers this evening)
I'd not checked out my IP changes, though guess I could have done via my mac's log file an/or the routers log.
There's so much going on I've hardly known where to begin TBH.
My connection seems to regularly struggle for a few minutes at a time. Most noticeably whilst streaming TV. It starts playing up, I do a speed test, it tests out okay and streaming restarts, a few minutes later it's down, or struggling again... the graphs illustrate that perfectly.
 
I had one of their helpline techs on the phone line the other night, he was surprised that he was seeing my router appear and disappear from his view every couple of minutes whilst running tests & apparently setting up for longer term tests. 
I was considering scripting something to run locally but decided to try a web search first and decided on trying testmy.net as it seemed (now confirmed, many thanks for your efforts & support) a great option.
This gives me some great ammo to go back to them with. I suspect there may be weather-related problems going on here as we've had our coldest weather for some considerable time here (north east UK) and a LOT of rain in the last few weeks.
I've been looking at upgrading from old 'copper line ADSL' to fibre (FTTP), which has recently arrived here (though I'm close to the town centre in a well populated area) but need to set aside some time to research & evaluate it against 5G and fibre/5G hybrid systems before I splash the cash and/or get tied in for a minimum term 🤦
 

Thanks for the reply...
 
I'm not particularly bothered by the wild fluctuations, as long as the lowest speeds are high enough that everything keeps working.  Today, OUR load has been minimal - one computer doing little if anything with Internet data, and one TV at 720p - so basically 1 TV.
 
Attached (maybe) is the graph from 5 a.m. this morning to 10 pm this evening (not sure where it'll show up, but I uploaded it)...
 
All night it bounces around like crazy, and at 5 a.m. it jumps from 31 Mbps to 130, then back down to 80.  And starts a gradual decline until around 11:00 the lows are below 10 Mbps.  And gets worse.  Then shortly after noon it goes back up and stays at around 30 Mbps for a while, and around 2 pm, it falls on it's face with a whole BUNCH of values well below 1 Mbps and barely getting into the teens Mbps all the way through 10 pm...  So, at LEAST 8 HOURS of miserable performance on a Sunday night.  And it looked very much the same most evenings last week.  Generally it didn't deteriorate QUITE this early, but once it hit "kids coming home from school" time, it pretty much tanks every day.
 
We've got three towers the Home Internet uses (according to T-Mobile support).  One "has problems" and T-Mobile excluded our gateway from that one (I have no idea HOW they did this, but I was TOLD they did).  The tower it's USING (again, according to T-Mobile) is straight South about 2 blocks and I can see it from where the box is.  The third one is East and less than 1/4 mile, and again, I can look out the window at it.
 
Both cell phones act the same way when in 5G.  If I turn OFF 5G on the cell phones I get about 180 Mbps at WORST, and generally around 260.  This is all using speedtest.net.  Unfortunately, the HI box doesn't have the ability to exclude 5G and use LTE.  I presume it was the cheapest, simplest device they could come up with to provide at no additional charge.  Very little configurability and apparently not smart enough to pick the band/service/whatever that appears to have the most available capacity...
 
I can live with the wide fluctuations as long as they stay HIGH enough at the worst so the service doesn't get down to the point where it's unusable...  I'll try talking to T-Mobile Support again tomorrow, but if this service is going to be this crummy for an extended period, the Home Internet box is going back as we're within the 15-day window through this week.

Thank you Fred,
 
Yes, I'm the developer behind all of TestMy.net. I taught myself how to program just so I could build this... and am still learning, every day well over 20 years later. I've had to become an expert in many fields to run this. Programming is just one aspect. Happens to be my favorite one and I wish I could just focus on that. Maybe one day.
 
I look forward to you seeing TestMy.net grow too. The new tools I'm brewing up right now are many years in the making and I can't wait to share them with everyone.
 
- Damon

Wow, thanks for all that!  So you are the dev for this whole testmy. Net?
 
It's sure a wonderful tool!
 
Looking forward to seeing it grow!
 
Fred

Not sure if you're aware how hard (impossible?) the options
such as "notifications" are to see... i just happened to hover
over one and then realized it was there..
 
 
 

Correct link structure looks like this...
 
<a href="https://testmy.net/quickstats/johnstonf?clientTime=1">johnstonf's Speed Test Results</a><iframe loading="lazy" src="https://testmy.net/quickstats/johnstonf?clientTime=1&f=1" scrolling="no" frameborder="0" height="435" width="100%"></iframe>  
I made it so it adds that for you automatically now. If you open your results with the clientTime url the output of the embed button will add that variable to the code for you.
 
I'll make changes to the UI later so that's not a hidden function.
 
Thank you

I have a friend that sent me their csv export.
 
Can i import it into my account, so that i can look at it, get graphs etc, or what is best way to look at their test results CSV from persective of how i can see it from testmy.net account?
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

"Quality of Service (QoS) is used to set up priority to specific devices, services or applications within the network through the router, so that the maximum amount of available throughput and speed can be used."
https://www.linksys.com/support-article?articleNum=137079
 
QoS allows you to prioritize bandwidth for specific clients, services or programs.
 
Basically it takes your connection and allocates bandwidth to your target machine before the rest of the network.
 
For example, you might want to prioritize your hardwired PC, you say that's most important. But others may want their VoIP or xbox to take priority.
 
I played with QoS in the early days but I've never had a real need for it. My connections are usually top tier.
 
If your connection is under 50 Mbps (obviously yours is) then QoS might not just help... it might be necessary.
 
Here's a good guide on the subject >> https://www.howtogeek.com/75660/the-beginners-guide-to-qos-on-your-router/ (the ads are extremely painful and they link to the wrong test but good information on QoS options and features)
 
If your router doesn't support QoS I'd recommend the Netgear Nighthawk AC1750. You can get them as cheap as $35 used. Search the Nighthawk AC1750 manual for QoS (page 49)
 
Having explained that. It looks like you've had a little improvement. But it's still spotty.
 
91Wagovanman's Speed Test Results
 
 
Maybe weather or dish placement are be to blame. What does HughesNet have to say?
 
You should run an automatic speed test. Here's some settings I might try for your connection. (Considering the bandwidth limitations and data cap.)

 
 
A longer test will give us more information. 
 
 

I see what you're saying.
 
A temporary fix will show "Set Username" at the top (where the sign in / sign up links usually are) when you signup with Google and the username hasn't been set.
 
On normal sign up it's displaying an error instead of prompting you to check your email. The email is still being sent, if you follow the link it works.
 
I'll work on fixing the signup process. It works but is not a good user experience. 
 
Thank you for reporting this.

I have tried signing up by filling out the sign up form and by signing up with my google account and neither method is working. It either returns me to the home page without signing me up, or it gives me an error message (Error code: EX1364). 

Update: As I submitted this topic, it prompted me to complete my account (I had already entered my email for this question, it just asked me to enter a username). Now I have my username at the top right of the page. Though, it never asked me for a password, so I'm not really sure if it created an account and if it did I'm not sure how I would sign in.

Sweet! That will come in handy.

Do you want to upgrade to windows 11, but like me your pc "doesn't qualify"  because of various reasons?  We have a fix. 
My pc missed qualification by a few generations of CPU. Everything else passed. Luckly i found this video! Hope it helps, and remember, as with any OS install, do @ your own risk. 
 
SIDE NOTE!   Use a USB drive to do the windows update; Mine failed mid install trying via SSD & almost bricked my system. Luckly, windows recovered. 
 
 
Total Time: Varies ( 30 min for me)
Difficulty: Moderate
Risk level: Moderate; depends on your PC/OS knowledge; 
 
Watch the video, & if it makes sense to you, I'd strongly recommend.  
 
 
 

 
 
Link: 
 
 

I've used a number of distros as a desktop user looking for a lean platform and have to say that all the distros I've tried so far have their merits (IMHO).
My first distro like many was Mint, tried many DE's but eventually through trial and error found that XFCE was the spin for me.
After many years of using Mint I started to find it a bit bloated with feature creep for my modest machine and so moved to Manjaro, this I really enjoyed for quite some years as it was an arch based distro and was focussed on XFCE as its main desktop environment. Sadly after many years this too began to slow down my machine (not by windows standards, but it wasn't as fluid and quick as it once had been).
Eventually I decided that the time has come to distro hop once more, but couldn't decide initially what my destination would be, I decided that stability was most important, but I also wanted something which would be relatively easy to get drivers for as all the distros that I'd used so far relied upon using user repositories and non-official drivers for lots of things such as printers and scanners).
After thinking carefully about what I wanted and what was important to me (rather than what journo websites say you should be using this day of the week) there was one distro which clearly fitted the bill me and that was Debian (XFCE of course). It's a little more tricky than other distro's for 1st timers but not that much , you just have to be prepared to get a little more familiar with CLI compared to other distro's (but that is a good thing).
I've been with Debian since Bullseye launched (I was specifically waiting for the new release cycle) and it was the best thing I've ever done. I really wish that I'd picked Debian as my 1st distro. For me it's just perfect, it is super stable, it is very lean on ressources, pretty much every hardware manufacturer that produces debian drivers will do so for Debian, the updates and time lost doing them is tiny (as you're just getting security updates rather constantly downloading the latest program versions.
It may not be everyone's cup of tea (especially if you have to have the latest versions of software.
But if stability, speed and lean resource use are important to you then it could be for you a youtube reviewer once summed Debian up by labelling it a boring distro (because nothing ever goes wrong).
 

From looking through your test results, it looks like the intermittent dips could be your 4G router switching between 4G bands.  This is particularly an issue with Cat 4 routers that only connect to a single 4G band, such as the TP-Link MR200/400/6400 series and the Huawei B593 and B3xx series.  For example, Three uses 4G band 20 extensively in rural areas due to its ability to penetrate building material, vegetation, etc. better than 4G bands 1 and 3, however, however they only have 1/3 the bandwidth on band 20 compared to band 3 and it's more congested due to users in fringe areas only being able to pick up that band indoors.  Speed drops after around 6pm is mainly due to traffic load on the mast as the bandwidth is shared between everyone connected to the mast, like a road. 
 
If you have a Huawei 4G router, you can try using LTE H-Monitor (link) to lock to individual bands (Configuration -> Radio).  Choose a single Upload band and the matching download band (e.g. B3 1800MHz for both).  Run a speed test, then repeat with a different band such as B1 and B28.  If you get no signal, then that band is not in use.  Three uses bands 1, 3, 20, 28 and 32 (download only).  The TP-Link routers and most older Huawei routers lack support for bands 28 and 32. 
 
Higher end routers such as the Huawei B628 and B818 can connect to multiple bands simultaneously (i.e. carrier aggregation) and also have Gigabit Ethernet ports, so can potentially deliver much faster, possibly 200-300Mbps if band 32 is on the mast you're connected to.