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  1. On 8/15/2019 at 4:18 AM, spudler_t said:

    LMAO  OMG read the title and  Average Tool,   anyway  speed testing tool right??

    Holy cow I cannot stop Laughing that was too funny, so wish yall could share in my ridiculous sense of humor. 

     

    I just read the entire sequence and don’t know what you’re referring to. What am I missing? I could use a good laugh too ?

     

    ?️

  2. On 7/30/2019 at 9:26 PM, CA3LE said:

     

    That's awesome to hear!  Saving money AND you're happier with what's being provided.  You're seriously paying $50/month for all 3 services!?!  Wow.  Nice.

     

    Unless you add a bunch more devices, I imagine your plan will serve you very well for a long time.  They'll probably offer better packages for cheaper by the time you need more speed.  ;)

    Unfortunately, I've been compromised. Last night in my Inbox I saw an email with the Subj field = my ISP login password. Today on my ISP provided phone was a call from

    "Fraudulent Call" and yes, it was misspelled too. The email was a threat if I didn't buy some BitCoins.... ISP said to go to local police and file a report and they would have documentation for them but my police are not what they used to be and technically ..... so I don't expect much.

  3. Originally I had 5+ people here and about 15+ devices which gave me the need for speed and bandwidth but I came to realize that for the last several years I only have 3 people with 5-6 devices (TVs, wireless blu-ray players, etc. all ‘smart’) so I didn’t need it anymore. I guess I developed a mindset to get the most I could. But for the next year I’ll be happy ? to pay the $50 instead of the $102 and then I’ll have to see what kind of deal I can get.

    Still, it was kind of fun to try for the 400 Mbps‼️ ???

  4. While I’ve got a fantastic home network system it’s only as good as the ISP provides. Last Fall I was paying $80/mo. for 400 Mbps. This site demonstrated the “real” situation. Now, because of you guys, I’m paying $50/mo. for Internet + TV + Phone and receiving the same approximate throughput, circa 100 Mbps, instead of 150 - 175 before, + the tv and phone!

     

     The only downside is it’s not as much fun running the speed tests as it had been but also not nearly as stressful.

     

    Pahoo

     

    Oh, I forgot to mention that the $80 had just gone to $102 in June so I really got stuck for 1 month.

  5. On 5/21/2019 at 5:33 PM, CA3LE said:

     

    You're welcome!  I'll start explaining with videos like that more often.

     

     

    Cool, I'll look you up.

                Thanks but I haven’t uploaded anything yet, although I do have a wide variety of playlist content for both the discerning and the  non-discerning viewers ?

  6. I haven’t been back for a while but now look forward to using it. My wife had surgery and is just now beginning to recover. I noticed on my prior testing that my time zone is not Eastern but something more like Mountain?

  7. So interesting. Believe it or not, I really don’t have any ‘mobile’ devices, other than this iPad. All my computers (except 1) are running a version of Windows 7, either 32 or 64 bit, and either Ultra or Professional. The exception is a Windows 8 64 bit because of a touch screen platform.

    So there are plenty of programs, like CCleaner for example, that only takes a flip of the switch to clean caches, etc. I used to do a full wipe and system install every December but no need to now.

     

    So it’s only this iPad that drives me crazy ?. But it’s a lightweight machine good for playing chess or checking the weather. I kinda miss Ma Bell, though.

  8. That “...strange...weird...” bug thing you captured on video. I had the identical thing last summer! Never saw anything like it so I tried to get a couple of pictures. It was through a window cause I got a thing about insects. They weren’t so good but if you don’t mind, I know a specialist who helped me identify something I was going to kill to be a predator of ground nesting hornets ? (it actually goes into the nest and eats them, I don’t know how it survives) and I would like to point her to your excellent video. I haven’t seen one yet this year. 

     

    I apologize for going off track on this website and it won’t happen again. On another note I’m testing a variety of different devices with built in web access, like a couple of very different TVs, doorbell/camera and remote chimes, vacuum cleaner, blu-ray players and iPads. I also just learned that the ISP is using 11.n and doesn’t support 11.ac. So now I have their modem going to their free router that is locked tighter than Fort Knox and my router (D-Link 895) connected to one of the Gb ports on their router. So I now have a total of 5 SSIDs (or 6) spread across the 2.5 and 5.0 bands. I’m thinking of reversing the the two routers.

     

    Congrats on this website! I’m going to be a very busy guy here️  ?

  9. Just read this and felt compelled to quote you here:

     

    The true worth of an ISP

    In our opinion the true value of an Internet service provider isn't always measured in megabits. Truly great providers maintain good peering relationships with other providers so their users sustain quality speeds throughout the Internet, not just near by.

    What good is an Internet connection if you can only get your advertised speeds on your providers internal network (or on the edge of their network).

    It's the INTERnet not INTRAnet. If you run a speed test elsewhere and get higher results than you get here, poor provider peering may be to blame.

    This is a whole new world and the deeper I go (just below the surface) the more perplexing it becomes️ Yesterday I did an IP search of my new “public” IP via the ISP, and it came up with New Haven, Connecticut. Today I did the same exact thing and it came up with Orange, Connecticut! What!?! It’s time for me to call a Time Out!

  10. CA3LE:  I actually "fixed" a part of the testing late last night by running and timing the Multithread tests here to synch with the ISP's OOKLA Speedtest, causing this to run interference with that, and I was pleasantly surprised at the results. I have to go back and revisit them but as I recall, the slowest download to occur was > 150 Mbps and only happened once. All others were +200 and even here, they were fast.  /Pahoo Pete

  11. 22 hours ago, CA3LE said:

    Remember, they are your Internet Service Provider... not local area network provider.  Measuring your speed to their servers doesn't tell you much about how they're delivering your Internet.

     

    TestMy.net is the only test results you need to present them with.

     

    Also, because you're a member TMN has been tracking your response time (ping) in the background.

     

    Pahoo Katawah Response Time

     

    That looks really good actually.  Ping isn't always an indicator.

     

     

    TestMy.net is testing between the client and server.  The client being your machine.  The route the connection must take to do that has it running right through your providers connections.  Not just testing between the server and your ISP.  Between you and the server and everything between.  ;)

     

    Bingo! I DIDN'T know that, that you actually include the "Me to Thee" 1st server! Well, that says it all ... EXCEPT

     

    I spent an hour or more with the tech today and had everything from this site on hardcopy for 'us' to go over, except that he wasn't interested in anything other than the ISP OOKLA site, which, of course, showed wonderful bandwidth speeds contrary to here and a couple of others I had pulled to backup all of my data from here. Ultimately, he gave me a free-to-use company router which did produce the somewhat better speeds. He neglected to mention that it targeted an initial server different from the one that was hardcoded with my original service and I was too tired to go there even though I had a printed map of the location of the original.

    Well, it's dinner time so I'll finish the story later in the other topic of mine that you were good enough to reply to! :-)

     

    Pahoo aka Big Beef

  12. I've been doing a lot of testing over several months using different parameters and devices. Now I'm trying to pull them in collected batches but I don't know if I'm getting exclusively 'me' or intermixed with others due to the different values on the right side of the screen, like TID and I can't remember the others. Do I have a User unique identifier and if so, how can I find it and use it as a parameter?

     

    Much thanks!

    PK

  13. Hi!

     

    My ISP came and replaced the cable running from the telephone pole to my house. Today they verified everything from the pole to the modem looked ok from their remote diagnostics so they are sending someone tomorrow to check inside the house. I told them I'm running a CAT6 cable directly from the modem to the computer port and gave them the average speeds.

    But I have to ask you a different question that I hope I have not already asked. Do I need to do a ping or some other test to determine the speed up and down from my computer to the local ISP server and then add that into the speed test? Somehow I get the feeling that speed tests actually test the speed between two servers, the ISP server and a remote server, but not from my computer to the ISP server to the remote server and back to my computer. Can anyone clarify this for me before the service person arrives sometime tomorrow?

     

    Thanks!

     

    Oh, I ask this because I have been choosing two ISP servers to test, meaning an Optonline server in NY and another Optonline server in NY because NY is the home of my ISP, Optonline. I've definitely done it elsehwere wher I can pick the two servers but have also tried to do it here by picking the NY server under the Eastern Location category.

  14. On 1/30/2019 at 6:59 PM, bigmakow said:

    My speeds were all over the place with the texas server. connect to a CA server the it might stable out

     

    Thanks!

    I’ve used several servers and combinations also with several devices/locations here and different times of day. I’m trying to do “grouping” using the option to set a ‘tag’ to identify them but as you can see, I’m not getting in here lately because of other demands on my time.

     I will try your suggestion next time and let you know.

    On another site my default is NYC, being the closest, but Washington, DC, turns out to be steadily twice as fast! My ISP is in NYC but I wish I could bypass theirs and use the DC server instead. Unfortunately, I haven’t figured out how to do it yet and I’m not sure of the DC IP address.

     

    Sorry, I just realized you were talking to Hangfire and not me!

  15. Sorry, thought you had left. In the meantime I've developed problems of my own. My speed dropped from 85-110 Mbps to 400-1200 Kbps!!!

    I found someone tossed a bag on the wirelerouter (8 antenna)

    t I writer

    talk later; in middle of running tests which kill wha

     

    my 200 tests sequence JUST ended so will have to examine the results  but did just notice that the measurements I saw were suddenly in Bytes instead of bits!

    Don't know why that changed but will have to get back to you about your issue. My router suffered a suitcase falling on it a year ago and now this bag and between the two I think I lost 2 antenna internal connections but you never told me if you talked with the support people. I am thinking of switching to ATT so any input you would be willing to share I am more than willing to read!!!

     

    Pahoo

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