xs1

Hi Jose,
 
When I get a moment I'll add São Paulo for you. 

Sorry man, for some reason it got installed in my datacenter. 😜
 
This server is running TestMy.net now and I definitely feel the difference.
 
Had a few networking issues over the weekend.  My pfSense server had issues, something bugged out.  It was my oldest VM, maybe it had some kind of legacy setting somewhere causing issues.  The backups were jacked as well, so I just deleted it and put up a new one...
 
Not really a big deal, that pfSense router is really only for my internal, non-production network and none of TestMy.net services run through it.  So not a big deal, right?  WRONG!  Side effects are real.
 
I didn't realize that before I had specifically setup pfSense without IPv6.  With the default install it ran normally... until I got to my datacenter and reset my switches.  I do this sometimes when I visit, just to get a fresh boot on them.  Well, most things came back up normally but TMN was down.  Everything indicated that it should be up, I'm getting pings all over the place as expected.  Why isn't it working?
 
Very stressful situation.  This should have been a routine visit to quickly rack the new server.  But now, nothing is working right!  To make matters worse I'm on my laptop where I'm already not as comfortable working.  Connected with hotspot on my phone and I realize that I only have a USB-C cable for my phone and no USB-C on my laptop.  My battery's at like 30%.  So now it feels like Mission Impossible.
 
I was running in circles at this point, so I took my hands off the keys and thought for 5 minutes.
 
... then came up with...
"Default Route."
 
I look closer at the networking on the host and client.  I then see an IPv6 address assigned to an adapter that should only have an internal IPv4 address.  This device is connected to a VLAN.  So traffic was trying to route out the adapter connected to VLAN.
 
The gotcha is when an IPv6 address is assigned on the same adapter as an IPv4 address that takes an isolated route.  Another fix is to tell the adapter "never use as default route".
 
A different VM had a spare network adapter that wasn't configured, had been sitting like that for years.  When this happened, it did DHCP, got an IP and then default routed to that adapter.  In that case it was an IPv4 address.  Same kind of issue, a little different.
 
So I worked out a few kinks.  When it came down to it, lambo joined right into the cluster, replicated my VMs and migrated them without issues.
 
The lesson for me, when you're flustered... take a step back and think.  The answers often surface.

Hi @cholla 

@CA3LE what are you running for a GPU in that rig? or AGPU...> 
 
 
My setup is pretty dated.. i just dont use the pc much anymore so I haven't really sunk any money into upgrades (especially the platform) in many years..
 
ASUS Prime X370-Pro AM4 ATX Motherboard
AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core Base Clock 3.0GHz OC @ 4.1 GHz 
NZXT KRAKEN X73 RGB 360MM AIO LIQUID COOLER W/LCD DISPLAY
G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 32GB 288 Pin DDR4 SDRAM 3200 MHz
XFX QICK 319 AMD Radeon RX 6800 16GB
CORSAIR HXi Series HX1200i 1200W 80 PLUS PLATINUM Full Modular
Thermaltake Core P5 ATX Open Frame Panoramic Viewing Tt LCS Certified Gaming Computer Case

@CA3LE what are you running for a GPU in that rig? or AGPU...> 
 
 
My setup is pretty dated.. i just dont use the pc much anymore so I haven't really sunk any money into upgrades (especially the platform) in many years..
 
ASUS Prime X370-Pro AM4 ATX Motherboard
AMD RYZEN 7 1700 8-Core Base Clock 3.0GHz OC @ 4.1 GHz 
NZXT KRAKEN X73 RGB 360MM AIO LIQUID COOLER W/LCD DISPLAY
G.SKILL TridentZ RGB 32GB 288 Pin DDR4 SDRAM 3200 MHz
XFX QICK 319 AMD Radeon RX 6800 16GB
CORSAIR HXi Series HX1200i 1200W 80 PLUS PLATINUM Full Modular
Thermaltake Core P5 ATX Open Frame Panoramic Viewing Tt LCS Certified Gaming Computer Case

On a lage city, tower with more bandwidth the speeds goes up to 1000/150 Mbps.
 

 

 

Over the decades I've always strived to have the fastest servers I can afford to host TestMy.net.  My journey with hosting has taken me into a colocated datacenter where I pay for cabinet space, power & internet connection and bring in my own equipment.
 
When I first started using colo I built everything out with brand new, current generation servers and networking gear.  Over the years I added servers and built up a High Availability Proxmox cluster.  Adding servers I found that eBay was definitely my friend.  Now I could afford servers that only a few years earlier often went for nearly 10X what I was able to get them for "off lease".  Each time I added a new server, it was more powerful than the previous.
 
Over this time I'm adding more resources, things are getting faster.  Even my first servers were full solid state, employing arrays of 4 Samsung 850 Pro SSDs.  But things really started flying with the advent of Optane storage.  A game changer... really, it was too good. (and now it's gone.)
 
Fast forward to 2024.  I get a generous donation of servers, the person doesn't care what I do with them, they're just happy to give them to me.  They're newer than my servers, 2nd version into the next generation of CPU.  So quite a bit newer.  I get one of them setup with the same Optane storage I run in my current master server and start benchmarking. 
 
It's not really faster and doesn't justify switching servers.  Sometimes it was slower.  I assume because my servers are higher clock speed, highest end of the CPU SKU.  Scratching my head, I really thought being so much newer I'd get a much better result.
 
I take the storage out and pop it in a gaming rig... another machine recently donated to me by a friend.  This PC happens to have hardware from the same year as the server I just tested.  I run the same tests and had to do a double take.  Not only was it faster on the gaming rig, it was WAY faster.  This made me reimagine my server topology.  Maybe it was time to build with consumer hardware.
 
Here I had a setup that was a fraction of the cost that was out performing in real world scenarios.  The better single thread performance and higher clock speed, faster memory... it all makes sense. There's more competition in the consumer market, things cost less.
 
So I sold those servers to someone who can better utilize their resources.  Extremely nice servers but for my use case here, they had too much of everything.
 
As soon as they were sold I ordered parts for my next build.  Promptly put it together and got to testing.  Minimum, 2.5x faster at everything.  Average is 3x faster and in some cases I've seen over 6x faster.  It has completely blown me away.
 
What is the magical setup?  Nothing much really, minus storage I think it cost my about $900, including a piKVM setup to remotely control the machine.  Much less than any of my used enterprise servers cost me.
 
Here's my build.
 
AMD Ryzen 7 9700X 8-Core, 16-Thread Unlocked Desktop Processor G.SKILL Ripjaws S5 Series (Intel XMP 3.0) DDR5 RAM 64GB (2x32GB) 5600MT/s CL28-34-34-89 Optane 905p (zpool) and Samsung 960 Pro (OS) ASUS Prime B650-PLUS WiFi ID-COOLING IS-40-XT Black - 47mm Height Low Profile CPU Cooler EVGA 750 BP, 80+ Bronze 750W PSU Rosewill 2U Server Chassis RSV-Z2900U BTF-LIGHTING WS2812B 2PCs 19in Individually Addressable  2GB Raspberry pi4 Geekworm KVM-A8 (kit for building a piKVM) 10G network card  
It's only a 65 watt TDP CPU! very easy to cool in a constrained (or SFF) build like this.
 
A single half dollar sized CPU out performs all of my dual Xeon systems.

 
Yes, I can't run a terabyte of RAM with this setup but I don't need to.  My current systems are 128GB, I figure I only really really need 64GB with this CPU backing the system. 
 
Especially in single thread performance the new Ryzen system blows all my other systems away.  This type of gain will be felt everywhere, especially in mysql queries and responsiveness.  It still excels in multithread and even has a larger cache than my Xeons.  It really wins for me on every level.
 
And yes, RGB was a requirement.  I never put RGB in a computer, not really my thing.  But I figure this is a gaming PC at its core so for $13, why not.  I can control them in linux but it adds a bunch of unnecessary packages, I like my base PVE to be as simple as possible.  So default rainbow it is.
 
lambo-2025-lq2.mp4
 
 
I haven't been necessarily doing it wrong all these years.  Without the low TDP and high performance of the 9700X this build would be more challenging.  These are recent developments.  There's basically zero redundancy in this server.  So, it also helps having a PVE cluster that has a bunch of reliable machines, to back up this consumer grade hardware.  
 
I can't wait to bring Lambo into production!

I cannot recall what the realistic expected speed one should be expecting on a ISP Tier of 2000/300
As usual I did not hear about this other then coming across this information searching online about latest Xfinity Gateways etc. I guess this upgrade was implemented  Some time in January of 2025 in my area
I think 90% of advertised speed was what would be expected or considered proper, now with the higher speeds ( The 90% I Think was back when speeds were like 1000/20 or so) the 10%  would much greater amount lost  IE 100/2 now it would be something like 200/30 or expected speed of 1800/270
IS this still valid with today's technology.

latest test like a min ago 

Thanks mudmanc4 I did not intend to limit this topic to "Original Members".
I just wanted to see how many were still around at least sometimes.
Anyone remember these:
 

You're not in the first 1000 members but you are an OG TMN member for sure.  1000th member to 10,000th is like a 6 month difference.

Good to see the responses.
I hoped there would be more.
 
Merry Christmas & Happy New Year to all.

Wow!  Your member number is right in between xs1 and cholla.  You definitely deserve the Original Member badge.
 
Welcome back.  What kept you from signing in for over 20 years?
 
I was just glancing over some of the first members.  There are still a few registered in 2003 (the year the forums started here) who are still active.  Pretty cool.

Why not just buy your own cable modem?  The ISP ones usually suck pretty bad anyways.  When I had Cox, I always bought my own modem and never had even 1/10th of the problems I heard others complain about.

Maybe contact that developer.
 
Easier to just use TestMy.net instead.  Try the beta under My Settings.
 
 

Well maybe you should cool it down, dude! 😄

Well maybe you should cool it down, dude! 😄

You'll get this error if you run too many tests too quickly.  It should be there... but not unless you hit the test more than you did.
 
It shouldn't happen on your first re-test like that.  I was seeing it too, when combined test was used and re-test was quickly done.  I made an adjustment and it now passes properly under that scenario.
 
Thanks for the heads up.  

Just a query. Is the residential gateway/ modem provided by Spectrum?
If so is PC connected directly to that provided modem or passed through either a switch or isp extender device or perhaps a wall jack rj45 ethernet port using inside wire in the walls. 
Also if straight to router is there a port out of usually 4 or 5 grouped ports that are not of the same color or may even labeled as "1Gbps" some go higher when dealing with fastest speeds. Att and Comcast have equipment that use this
 
Internet speed on PC is largely hardware specific. gpu, cpu, memory, Network interface 
 
 
As a former tech for the Death Star I would bet its the top suggestions. Lasty the PC...but it is more common than you think of coming up shy.
 
820 on here is good on testmy I wouldn't fret

Yeh it's not bad for WiFi at all I have had 550 over WiFi before. With a cable the best I've seen on my ps5 using speed test.net is 596.3 so pretty damn close. Attached the WiFi test pretty damn good. 

461/600 over Wi-Fi is pretty good.  Are you always Wi-Fi? Have you tried wired?