pingram3541

Ok, the results are in and it still looks pretty consistent @ half the upload speed when testing with TMN. I tested 3 separate 24 hour test between 2 different test servers and I kept them fairly close to home Los Angeles and Dallas. Not sure how to get more detailed information response times per hop but heres what I feel confident in my findings: - Not a single test, even my ISP's, ever show near my subscribed speed of 150/150Mbps - Test w/ TMN consistently result in 2/3 subscribed speed download, 1/3 upload - Everywhere not TMN, result in 2/3 subscribed speed both download and upload Would love to see if we could break down the hows/whys on those 3 conclusions but I feel I can safely say its time to open one of those dreadful and often lengthy support tickets in which I'll probably get 2 new routers by the end of it all even after telling them I've swapped routers and even taken them to another connection proving they support upwards of 600Mbps throughput. The most frustrating part of all of this is trying to explain how this stuff works to the folks in the tech support dept. as the first 2 tiers have a general knowledge at best and when you say something like "Do you see my router's MAC in the upstream arp cache?" and they'll glaze over. I spent upwards of 2 hours trying to get them to release an IP lease for heavens sake. Ok, end rant. Good vibes, I still have decent bandwidth so I regress back to moderate bliss.

Thanks gents. I finished the first batch of 24hr tests to Los Angeles and consistently see 90/50 gonna try another test location. Now how do I go back on this test history and scrutinize detailed info such as hops? Is that possible w/ TMN?

Yes indeed and I'm hoping the 24 hours tests will help answers those questions. The big one being, why does everywhere else show consistently symmetrical results even though they are always 1/3 slower than my subscribed plan, why does TMN consistently show non-symmetrical results? That might also answer why sometimes skype is reporting that I am the problem side of a bad connection but speed tests will come back with plenty...there's a bad hop and maybe its a popular one.

I was having some issues completing tests when I had the SF test server chosen. Many times the download would never start and would stay at 0% until I reset the size but then the upload would never complete. I switched to other test servers and completed many tests before coming back to SF and then they completed just fine. The results are now pretty much all over the place never exceeding 100mb in either direction and consistently never symmetrical.

Thx @mudmanc4, I realized I wasn't logged in when I ran the other tests and have since leased a new IP as well. Thanks for suggesting the 24 hour test as I hadn't noticed that option and was just running random tests against random servers which over the last few days have all been spot on 100/50 which is what led me to this post. Gonna try what you suggested and report back thanks. Added note: My edgerouter also shows real time throughput from my device edge (per MAC/per interface) and it also shows 100/100 when I'm running other speedtest tools and then shows 100/50 when I run TMN tests. This is also comparing the WAN interface and my PC's MAC, both are identical within k's. It now makes me curious about throttling so I'm now curious to see the route info during these tests.

I'm subscribed to a 150/150Mbps FiOS plan. Been using it for years with no issues (Verizon FiOS). I'm trying to prove to my new ISP (Frontier FiOS) that ever since the change I've been experiencing bandwidth issues. Sometimes I've tested w/ results less than 1Mb (even when using Frontier's own speed test tool). Over the last few weeks it seems to be sustaining around 90-100Mbps up/down which is still 1/3 less than my subscription, however when I test using this service, the upload always comes back around 50Mbps and the download is always around 100Mbps like the other sites are reporting. The other sites are not all sing Ookla, some were java based, others used http file transfer via browser similar to this site. I'm clearly not seeing any results close to 150 like I used to get but I feel the ISP will fall back on that "speeds up to" nonsense. The big question here is why does testmy.net only show half the upload speed when no one else does? This would lead me to conclude testmy.net might not be capable of giving me real results without some further explanation. Hoping to find that out now if you don't mind thank you. https://testmy.net/compID/679530124573