steelwolf

Hello, I have used testmy.net for a few years now.For the 1st time I have a,"speed", problem. Selecting the download test, using the,"Smar test", choice. the test starts like a bat out of hell, but when it gets to the last,"slowest", part of the test, it justs stops, cannot complete the test. I disabled and exited my comodo internet security, even killing the their process that still runs after exiting. I have setup my optimization with speedguide.net's optimizer, tried comcasts optimizer via an active x, They were very close to each other.I also could not complete comcasts speed test using my wireless, and later have had intermittent problems using my LAN card.I have customized my IE internet zones towards being less restrictive. I have only tried my maxthon 2.5 browser, which uses the IE engine, disabled maxthons wen accelerator,and website booster. put test my net and the comcast site in the respective safe sites, allow cookies, exceptions,etc. disabled all pop up blockers and web filters. I have not tried my Firefox 3.0xx yet, I do not trust microsoft concerning whether IE 8.0 is really out of beta so I use IE 7.0. I just had the comcast rep here due to some problems, everything else works swiftly and very well ....? Any ideas? Thanks, SteelWolf

Hello, I was testing my Firefox 3.0.5 against my Maxthon 2.1.5,"uses IE engine, IE 7.0", on the download test using,"SMARTEST", on all tests. My ISP,"Comcast", is rated at 6.0 Mbps, it is supposed to have a download,"burst", of up to 12.0 Mbps. I consistently get scores for the IE engine, in this ball park: ===== Tuesday, January 13, 2009 === 4:23:56 PM ===== :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 6589 Kbps about 6.6 Mbps (tested with 25600 kB) Download Speed is:: 804 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2009/01/13 - 3:23pm Bottom Line:: 115X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 1.27 sec Tested from a 25600 kB file and took 31.828 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Looks Great : 4.19 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-1L2G8AZQV User Agent:: Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 7.0; Windows NT 5.1; GTB5; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; MAXTHON 2.0) [!] =================== But with Firefox my scores are consistent as well, but typically very close to this bandwidth: ===== Tuesday, January 13, 2009 === 4:16:56 PM ===== :::.. Download Stats ..::: Download Connection is:: 13956 Kbps about 14 Mbps (tested with 12288 kB) Download Speed is:: 1704 kB/s Tested From:: https://testmy.net/ (Main) Test Time:: 2009/01/13 - 3:16pm Bottom Line:: 243X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 0.6 sec Tested from a 12288 kB file and took 7.213 seconds to complete Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 120.68 % faster than the average for host (comcast.net) D-Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/stats/id-4H1O2T9M8 User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.9.0.5) Gecko/2008120122 Firefox/3.0.5 [!] =============== I think I noticed that the # of times the linear graph that runs from left to right is displayed is less testing with Firefox than with Maxthon. I just ran another test with Maxthon, it did not seem to have the same # of "linear subunits", this time and I got 14 Mbps! I disabled my SW Firewall for all tests, I have a Belkin router, it is a,"dual", HW FW, "NAT and SPI". Please advise, Thanks, SteelWolf