Sean

I have had it for just over a week, there is many people on it now running the beta testing.  Setup is simple, as long as you use the app to look for obstructions, mine is facing NE if that helps anyone.
 
It is fast, I have seen speeds on fast around 220 Mbps and recently on here in the 120s.  As they as more satellites and more up-link stations things will get better.  Right now I am seeing some 25 - 30 ms ping times, quite amazing for the trip it has to make.  The dish is heated so snow and ice melt right off of it, I hope to see how the speeds are during heavy storms.
 
One bad thing so far, I am not sure if this will be worked on or not but the whole system appears to be tripped nated, not good for gamers but I am sure there's ways around that also.
 
Please with it so far, I have interruptions from obstructions while I am waiting for a mount to come, spaceX can figure out how to get stuff in space, but they are yet to figure out how to get something shipped in less than 4 weeks.  lol.
 
This is obviously not for someone that has a decent service, this is designed for someone in the sticks with garbage internet service, this will make most smile with the speeds and how quickly games can update, how quick you can post photos and so on....
 
If anyone has questions, please ask away and I will try to reply.

I gave up waiting on Cable or Fiber in my area, had DSL for many years but Frontier never did any upgrades with a less than 6 Mbps speed.  Now I am on the Starlink Beta program and this is certainly going to be an option for you!
 
 

The first two tests (Ookla and nPerf) run their tests multi-threaded by default, i.e. they typically make around 8 simultaneous connections to the test server to try to saturate the connection.  Ookla has a lot of test servers within the ISP networks, so there is a good chance your test traffic is not leaving their network unless you manually choose another server. 
 
To get a multithread test here on TestMy, click the "Multithread off" at the top-right to turn it on.  Note that multithreaded tests don't realistically show what you would get streaming or downloading, which generally run over a single connection from the server.
 
Google's built-in speed test is a single connection speed test (not multithreaded), but uses the new TCP BBR congestion protocol.  The TCP BBR congestion protocol is excellent at handling packet loss up to about 5% before it suffers significant speed loss.  As web servers don't have BBR enabled (or installed) by default, most websites use the legacy TCP CUBIC congestion protocol.  For this reason, TestMy does not use TCP BBR, apart from the Colorado Springs server at this time.  A few major web hosts such as Google and Microsoft and CDNs such as Cloudflare are TCP BBR enabled. 
 
As Google's speed test uses Measurement Lab's servers, you can see how your speed compares with the widely used TCP CUBIC congestion protocol that Measurement Lab uses on its own website test: 
 
https://speed.measurementlab.net/#/
 
If the "Retransmission" figure is not zero, there is a some packet loss on your connection.  If the speed is close to the 80Mbps what you got on Google, then your ISP may have congestion on its peering with international links as TestMy does not have any test servers in Italy. 

The first two tests (Ookla and nPerf) run their tests multi-threaded by default, i.e. they typically make around 8 simultaneous connections to the test server to try to saturate the connection.  Ookla has a lot of test servers within the ISP networks, so there is a good chance your test traffic is not leaving their network unless you manually choose another server. 
 
To get a multithread test here on TestMy, click the "Multithread off" at the top-right to turn it on.  Note that multithreaded tests don't realistically show what you would get streaming or downloading, which generally run over a single connection from the server.
 
Google's built-in speed test is a single connection speed test (not multithreaded), but uses the new TCP BBR congestion protocol.  The TCP BBR congestion protocol is excellent at handling packet loss up to about 5% before it suffers significant speed loss.  As web servers don't have BBR enabled (or installed) by default, most websites use the legacy TCP CUBIC congestion protocol.  For this reason, TestMy does not use TCP BBR, apart from the Colorado Springs server at this time.  A few major web hosts such as Google and Microsoft and CDNs such as Cloudflare are TCP BBR enabled. 
 
As Google's speed test uses Measurement Lab's servers, you can see how your speed compares with the widely used TCP CUBIC congestion protocol that Measurement Lab uses on its own website test: 
 
https://speed.measurementlab.net/#/
 
If the "Retransmission" figure is not zero, there is a some packet loss on your connection.  If the speed is close to the 80Mbps what you got on Google, then your ISP may have congestion on its peering with international links as TestMy does not have any test servers in Italy. 

Also, the latency times of roughly 10mSec (Rome), and 30 mSec (Milan), indicate that the route of those tests results of 80+ Mbps weren’t done over a very long distance or complex network like you’re typically getting when you test using TestMy. 
 
I’m some 700 miles from the NY server. Milan and Rome are about 300 miles apart. I get about 60 mSec latency to NY. 
 
It sounds from the 9mS delay that you’re close to Rome.  Your 30 mSec lag is roughly 1/2 of what I typically get and you’re roughly 1/2 the distance from Milan than I am from New York. Your real internet performance will be worse than the 80+ Mbps as for most of your online time, you’ll be connected over much greater distances and much more complex data paths.
 
The test methods you’re using are telling you what the maximum sustained performance you can ever expect over short simple data paths. TestMy is giving you a much more realistic measure of what your internet experience will be.

The first two tests (Ookla and nPerf) run their tests multi-threaded by default, i.e. they typically make around 8 simultaneous connections to the test server to try to saturate the connection.  Ookla has a lot of test servers within the ISP networks, so there is a good chance your test traffic is not leaving their network unless you manually choose another server. 
 
To get a multithread test here on TestMy, click the "Multithread off" at the top-right to turn it on.  Note that multithreaded tests don't realistically show what you would get streaming or downloading, which generally run over a single connection from the server.
 
Google's built-in speed test is a single connection speed test (not multithreaded), but uses the new TCP BBR congestion protocol.  The TCP BBR congestion protocol is excellent at handling packet loss up to about 5% before it suffers significant speed loss.  As web servers don't have BBR enabled (or installed) by default, most websites use the legacy TCP CUBIC congestion protocol.  For this reason, TestMy does not use TCP BBR, apart from the Colorado Springs server at this time.  A few major web hosts such as Google and Microsoft and CDNs such as Cloudflare are TCP BBR enabled. 
 
As Google's speed test uses Measurement Lab's servers, you can see how your speed compares with the widely used TCP CUBIC congestion protocol that Measurement Lab uses on its own website test: 
 
https://speed.measurementlab.net/#/
 
If the "Retransmission" figure is not zero, there is a some packet loss on your connection.  If the speed is close to the 80Mbps what you got on Google, then your ISP may have congestion on its peering with international links as TestMy does not have any test servers in Italy. 

Hey Sean im stoked !
i fired up the nighthawk today & got 16 mbps @ 5:pm in the afternoon!
Netfix is quick and back to the way it is intended to be watched?
i got the netgear mobile app fired up and changed codes and stuff.
( it didnt want to complete with my i-phone 7 but did apply on my wifes android for some reason? )
the only thing is that on the LCD screen on the nighthawk it says 16 days remaining and doesnt show how many GBs are remaining?
does tt take a day or so for everything to jive & process ?
or do i need to punch in details on the app?
i found something in settings but it wouldnt let me change anything on my iphone?
maybe i should try it on my wifes android?
i got 4 days remaining on hughes month #3.
so it will cost me $400 early termination fee if i cant get out of it?
and $300 if i dont return the equipment.
but i will be saving $43 a month so it will pay for itself.
thanks again so much for the help!
i really appreciate it.
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The best way is to change the identifier on the test page, such as to "Location 01".  Each test you perform will then be marked with this chosen identifier:

On the test results page, change the Identifier field to the identifier you picked to only show tests carried out with this identifier, such as "Location 01" in this example:

 
This will hide all your previous results apart from those marked with this identifier.  If you wish to later see your old results again, you can change the dropdown back to "All Identifiers". 
 
This is useful if you use TestMy across multiple Internet providers, such as mobile data, workplace Wi-Fi, a mate's Wi-Fi, etc.  Just select a different location # for each place before running a test.
 
If you really want to delete old test results, tick the checkboxes beside each result you wish to delete, then click the trash icon at the top.  For example, if I want to delete test results #2-4, I would tick these (1) and then click the trash icon (2) :

Correct.  Thank you @Sean
 
It's supposed to be disallowed on registration.  I'll look into that to make sure it's not an issue for users in the future.
 
@Rebecas hose I modified your username.  Run a few tests and it will save under that new username (https://testmy.net/quickstats/Rebecas hose) correctly.

As I mentioned above, it has a 100GB cap and then it's throttled to 128kbps for the remainder of the month.  128kbps is barely usable for anything more than e-mail and browsing, so you definitely don't want to go over the 100GB allowance.  It's worth asking T-Mobile if you can purchase another 100GB if you reach the limit before the month is out.  Otherwise if you find yourself regularly running into the 100GB limit, you could get a second prepay SIM, then when you reach the 100GB limit, swap the SIM cards and purchase a 100GB plan on the other SIM.
 
I have a neighbour that asked for help with their 4G Internet connection as they said it was very slow for downloading files.  When I tested their connection, I got around 800Kbps (0.8Mbps) here on TestMy.  When I moved their 4G router about to try finding a better signal spot, I managed to get their speed up to around 8Mbps.  I said that it should be now fast enough to stream Netflix if they want.  To my surprise, they said already have Netflix and had no issues streaming but just found their connection slow for downloading files such as kids homework.  So a stable 1Mbps connection should be adequate for Netflix.  Higher bitrates will give better picture quality with a HD plan (which requires 5Mbps), although I suggest keeping it set to standard definition (480p) if you stream more than an hour a day.
 
If you have an unlimited or decent data plan on your mobile, I suggest not connecting it to the Nighthawk's Wi-Fi.  This way you phone will continue to use your cellular plan's data allowance instead of eating into your hotspot's 100GB allowance. 
 
For the Roku's or anything else connected to your home Wi-Fi, I suggest keeping an eye on the Nighthawk's built-in usage meter.  It shows the accumulated usage on its screen as well as in its web interface.  Before heading out, take note of the reading.  Then compare it to when you come back to see if it has clocked up anything.  If there is noticeable usage such as >0.1GB each time you head out, then either unplug your network devices or switch off the Nighthawk before heading out.  

Sean again thank you so much.
im learning LOL!
so i stopped by t-mobile in town today before i saw your reply.
i think i educated myself more than the emplyees that worked there LOL.
but they were friendly & helpful. 
they found the unlimited plan but it is not available in my area YET?
they offered a 100GB plan for $50 a month and tried to push a little 5G aircard on me.
it sounded good but i didnt care for the two aircards they showed me.
said it was like $17 a month payment plan.
i would rather buy the M1 outright.
i looked at a couple of other ones on you tube but i liked the M1 the best.
great features and i can add antenna's if needed! 
glad to hear the t-moble towers in my area will suffice.
the $50 plan with 100 GB is better than hughes but i wanna make sure it is not throttled?
hughes gives me 20 GB & i am already down to 10% with 12 days left.......
its terrible, just change UPNP by myself & hughes did a force range...
so i did a quick look for M1 on amazon & ebay.
couldnt find any that said for t-moble?
only AT&T and some said GSM unlocked?
would those work?
my plan is to fire one of those up and then once everything is verified & cool then disconnect hughes sacrificing my contract......
always a pleasure to hear from you!
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wow thank you so much for the schooling.
thats cool that you can look at previous stats!
i am just outside of klamath falls in oregon (PMT)
i missed spectrum with land cable internet by 2 miles.
i had them in southern california with unlimited 200 mbps for $79 a month.
it was excellent!
i will definitely do homework on that mobile aircard.
i had a verizon one at work that was cool but it wasnt unlimited.
i checked with verizon here while getting some phone stuff done and they said there moble aircard would loose mbps after 10 minutes.
so i forgot about it?
my verizon phone gets 7-10 mbps all day long and seems to be better than hughes lol.
coincidently today my wife had mentioned that t-moble was unlimited.
that video was perfect info.
i am gonna check into that!
if its not available i may switch to viasat......
thanks again so much for the help.
i dont do social media or play video games.
all i watch is netflix from roku on my stupid tv.
and a little online banking.
thanks again so much for the help.
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hey thanks Sean, this info helps a lot.
i figured the repeater wouldnt help but i figured i would ask?
i also figured everything else was good cuz i even saw 30 mbps one time @ 3:am before testing.
i aslo just learned that my wi-fi is as good as ethernet direct plug in.
i ran a test on each and both had same results. 
both took 15 minutes to test.
wi-fi had .233 & hardline had .217
i know how to verify when all wi-fi devices are disconnected.
i am hoping hughes will fix my problem and currently trying to communicate with them?
my only other option around here is Viasat.
they wanted $50 bucks more a month but i would gladly pay that for some decent Mbps.
i havent heard anything about them since i have not meet anybody yet that has them here?
maybe they are new my area like me?
have you heard anything bad or good about ViaSat or any difference between the two?
any insight would sure be appreciated.
thanks again.
P.S. ya i leaned how to download netfix movies on my tablet a few years ago.
then screen mirror to my roku stick on any TV
i learned how to do this for when i was on cruise ships!
down load at ports & watch at sea LOL !

Unfortunately, a Wi-Fi repeater will not offer any improvement.  A Wi-Fi repeater would only help improve coverage to an area with weak or no Wi-Fi coverage.  It certainly does not improve speed to an area with good Wi-Fi coverage despite what the ads promote.  In fact, they actually cut the Wi-Fi bandwidth in half by repeating every piece of data between the Wi-Fi router and the Wi-Fi connected device.
 
As you are able to get up to 25Mbps offpeak, this also confirms that your Wi-Fi connection is not at fault, but instead with your Internet provider limiting the speed during normal hours.
 
Both Netflix and YouTube require a minimum of 0.5Mbps to stream in low quality.  Many of your speed tests are either under this or dip below 0.5Mbps midpoint during the test, so this explains the buffering issue.  I see a few are under 300Kbps, the equivalent speed of a 2G phone data connection.  Basically, the Hughes satellite spot beam you're connected to is oversubscribed.
 
I suggest setting Netflix to download the episodes you plan watching before heading to bed.  Basically, pick out everything that you might watch the following day and this way you watch them uninterrupted.  A few years ago when I had a slow DSL connection, this was the only way I could reliably watch shows.

ok i went ahead and did what you suggested. I moved one of the more popular torrents to the SSD. I made it the only torrent running. Results are  exactly the same. Hits the same speed and stops dead.  Interestingly enough, when I re-engaged the other torrents, that one died and its now spread the speed over all 12 torrents, at the same exact speed..  That sounds like throttling and shaping to me. I'm fairly certain that's the case now.  It's literally almost holding solid at the same exact speed as it did on the other drive. 
 
@CA3LE
 

I suspect the hard disk is the bottleneck.  Most BitTorrent clients fetch random parts of a file from seeders and peers, whereas FTP and HTTP clients generally fetch files sequentially from start to finish.  This means that with just a handful of BitTorrent peers, the hard disk will be constantly seeking for the random pieces the peer clients request. 
 
31MBs (250Mbps) seems very good for a high end hard disk.  Most consumer hard disks will struggle to even deliver 10MB/s randomly seeking non-stop, e.g. try copying a 5GB file from a hard disk while running a virus scan on it at the same time.  I'm not sure about DC++ or SoulSeekqt, but even if they run deliver files sequentially, the hard disk will still be busy seeking all over the place for the BitTorrent clients. 
 
I suggest try moving those 10 most popular torrents to the main SSD (or to a separate SSD), then see how this affects the overall upload speed. 

Thanks Sean for your reply.
 
I had avast running so I uninstalled that. Also, I thought cleaning the fan would help, so I did that. In addition, I tested without NordVPN running. This all increased my speed to what I am supposed to get through the test on the browser. The standalone test suprisingly gives 40mbps lower! Can't say for sure which of the above solved the problem.
I will monitor the performance further but it seems speed is quite sensitive to the NORDVPN. Maybe will post later about that.
 
(All my grandparents from Ireland, Sligo, Galway, Cork---Kellehers(2), Higgins, Mulvaneys. I became an Irish citizen and visited relatives in Ireland about five years ago. The green is real! Thanks again.)
 

The default test is a linear test.  Basically it downloads a known block size from the chosen server and calculates the speed based on the time it took.  This is just like using a stopwatch to time how long it takes to download a file and using a calculator to calculate the throughput.  E.g. if a 10MB file takes 20 seconds, then 10 / 20 * 8 = 4Mbps.  TestMy will also return 4Mbps if the 10MB block took 20 seconds to complete.
 
A real world analogy would be like drawing water from a tap with a hose.  Based on how long it takes to fill a bucket, you can work out the flow rate.   E.g. if it takes a minute to fill a 10 litre bucket, the flow rate is 10 litres per minute.
 
The multithread test is quite different.  The server splits the block up into multiple pieces and your browser downloads multiple pieces simultaneously.  This process repeats until all the pieces have downloaded.  For example, when I start a 50MB Multithread test, it says "Testing your connection with 46 x 1109 kB elements simultaneously...", so if my browser allows 10 simultaneous connections, it will download the first 10 elements, followed successive elements after each completes until all 46 have downloaded.  Once all the elements have finished downloading, it calculates the speed based on how long it took to download the lot.  Multithread tests tend to perform faster on shared networks, such as wireless, public Wi-Fi, cellular, etc.
 
For multithread, a real world analogy would be like carrying bottles of water from a water source, e.g. 10 at a time depending how many you can carry.  Calculating the flow rate is much the same, e.g. if takes a minute to carry 20 x 1 litre bottles from A to B, that's 20 litres per minute. 

Hey Guys - I appreciate the feedback and suggestions. I'll definitely try the VPN trick if I continue having issues. Around a week ago I started having much better results, and apart from a few hiccups it has been relatively steady and around 80 Mbps. I had them schedule a technician to come out (they didnt come to my house like I thought they would... but instead must have came and done work in the area / development). We called and were told they had to adjust an amplifier that was impacting about 15 customers, so I'm guessing our entire development. Don't have much more info other than that - but it is substantially better than it has been for the past few months. This is the latency test I just took https://testmy.net/latency?gID=beug361nvs, which now looks a whole lot better. There may have been some other issues they fixed as well, but ultimately nothing was changed at my specific location. PingPlotter is also showing very minimal packet loss, if any at all. I'm hopeful it is smooth sailing now, but I will continue to monitor and report back with any other information that may be helpful to others. Thanks!!

Thank you JereSalo! this works for me too. only one of my PC has a slow speed, I been looking for the reason for few month, but you solved my issue!

Hi! Thank you both for your help.
I solved this issue 2 days ago, I had a problem in my Windows 10 desktop and I investigated it for a few days till I found this:
 
https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10694244/sending-data-from-windows-is-slow-over-any-network-with-high-latency-but-linux-i
 
I wrote this on my CMD: netsh interface tcp set global autotuninglevel=normal
And it worked!
Now if I run the test on my desktop pc I have more than 30Mbps and before I had 3. I don't know why Windows was configured in that way.

Have a nice day and thank you for your time!

Thank you SO much. This fixed my speed.
I had this problem over a year ago and ended up just reinstalling Windows to fix it. It came back and I was dreading doing that again :P

Again, very helpful. This is getting very interesting. So I'm getting the impression that the reason I benefit from multi-threaded demand (e.g., two Roku streams) is unique to the type of network my ISP operates (wireless). I just learned Chrome supports 6 parallel TCP connections, so for general browsing, it seems unlikely I would see much difference between 3 Mbps and 5 Mbps single-thread performance, especially given that browsing is very bursty. More importantly, with up to six concurrent connections working, my poor single thread performance shouldn't impose much of a limitation for browsing. 
 
OTOH, I'm often clicking on links that open large image or PDF files (sometimes tens of MB's). My assumption is that's handled as a single connection. However, I just found this from a 2018 article on parallel downloading: "Google Chrome can establish multiple connections to download a single file in parts." (emphasis added; if you Google this quote, you'll get lots of hits). If I'm understanding this correctly, it raises the question why the TMN single-thread test isn't split across multiple connections. Is this something TMN can control, or maybe I need to do some testing to see if Chrome really does use multiple connections when downloading a single file. But I'll have to find an app like Resource Monitor for my Linux OS that shows the number of TCP connections open.

There are two options:
 
Option 1 - Mesh Wi-Fi kit (simple to set up, but requires connecting one unit to their router)
If the Grocery store is OK with connecting a unit to their router, get a 2 piece Mesh Wi-Fi kit (e.g. Tenda Nova MW6-2) and connect the main Mesh Wi-Fi box to a LAN port of their router.  Follow the steps in the Mesh Wi-Fi kit user guide to configure it.  Then plug in the second unit in your flat.  You should now have a good strong Wi-Fi signal throughout your flat.
 
Option 2 - Get a WISP router and a mesh Wi-Fi router (Nothing needs to be connected to the shop's router)
Get a travel Wi-Fi router such as the TP-Link AC750 and a single mesh Wi-Fi unit such as a Tenda Nova MW3-1 add-on unit. Use an App such as Wi-Fi Analyzer to find where the Wi-Fi signal is at its strongest and place the WISP router in this location.  Then configure it to connect to the shop's Wi-Fi.  This effectively converts the Wi-Fi to an Ethernet connection. 
 
Connect an Ethernet cable between the WISP router and the Internet port of the mesh unit.  Follow the user guide provided with the mesh unit to configure it and this will provide a strong Wi-Fi signal throughout your flat. 

There are two options:
 
Option 1 - Mesh Wi-Fi kit (simple to set up, but requires connecting one unit to their router)
If the Grocery store is OK with connecting a unit to their router, get a 2 piece Mesh Wi-Fi kit (e.g. Tenda Nova MW6-2) and connect the main Mesh Wi-Fi box to a LAN port of their router.  Follow the steps in the Mesh Wi-Fi kit user guide to configure it.  Then plug in the second unit in your flat.  You should now have a good strong Wi-Fi signal throughout your flat.
 
Option 2 - Get a WISP router and a mesh Wi-Fi router (Nothing needs to be connected to the shop's router)
Get a travel Wi-Fi router such as the TP-Link AC750 and a single mesh Wi-Fi unit such as a Tenda Nova MW3-1 add-on unit. Use an App such as Wi-Fi Analyzer to find where the Wi-Fi signal is at its strongest and place the WISP router in this location.  Then configure it to connect to the shop's Wi-Fi.  This effectively converts the Wi-Fi to an Ethernet connection. 
 
Connect an Ethernet cable between the WISP router and the Internet port of the mesh unit.  Follow the user guide provided with the mesh unit to configure it and this will provide a strong Wi-Fi signal throughout your flat.