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well if it has anything to do with the storms lately I know Monday we could not broadcast our iRacing League race as the Head Guy doing the 4K Live streaming lives in Texas and He was without Power Internet anything , I think his el even went off right after contacting us.

Does anyone know if there is a way I can set something so that the xfinity gateway will only do a reset/reboot when I want it to? Way to many times now it will just turn itself off and reboot in the middle of one of my Iracing events which boots me out of server (no connection) and then I get to finish last multiple laps down depending on length of race left. I ask as it just did this to me where I was p14 on grid and was running p5 (p=Position) with a great chance to possible finish top 3 which would of gained me a great deal or IR and SR (ratings they use to put you in with drivers approx. same talent plus higher IR better chances of gaining more and possible gaining the WC/Pro license. I bet in last year I have lost 1000 or more IR just from this same issue Holy cow I just went and looked and I finished dead last 22 out of 22 had I finished 6th I would of gained 70 IR (compared to the driver who did finish 6th with similar IR I had instead I lost 86. but actually I lost 156 from what I would of gained added what they deducted from me Normally in a race you are doing good if you gain 30-50 IR It could possibly take me 5 races finishing great to recover what I just lost due to a Xfinity self initiated reboot. If I need to I can manually hard boot the dang thing every night when I am not on iracing or a few hours before I plan to race .

Actually I use a Budget ( what most people call budget setup) as I do not have the $$ for a better one. I currently use the Logitech G29 Wheel, I had a G force 6+R Shifter but they designed it where the reverse switch was on the bottom (you had to push down and push Right and Back to get reverse) and it hit the bottom of the case and broke a connection pin. And for pedals A guy had a Set of Thrust master T3PA Pro's that had bad Potentiometers and he actually gave them to me all I had to do was buy the Potentiometers and replace them. From what I have heard from other people in my league etc. is that the Fanatec Pedals and Wheels are pretty good. Thrust master makes a good wheel and of course pedal set, matter of fact Thrust master has a new set of pedals I believe the T-LCM which has the Load Cell brake ( Supposed to be best braking style of pedal compared to potentiometers) and the hall effect Throttle (uses magnets so no moving parts to wear and supposed to be more accurate also.

Sorry I am so late replying I somehow missed this, But if you have checked out some of the LSRTV stuff, look up iracing on you tube also they have the 24 hour races where they really run 24 hours have teams where different drivers do like 1-3 hour sessions and they switch throughout the event, Indy car stuff, IRX ( I believe is Ralley cross) World Of Outlaws Late Model and Dirt Sprint cars . Quite a broad range or racing types .

I sure hope you all missed that race it was horrible, first after qualifying I loaded the wrong setup so I was about .5 to .75 slower then I should be, almost had that worked out but forgot to shut my door to my room all the way and my cat decided she wanted to climb in my lap to take a Nap (which she does on occasion), she got tied up in wheel and caused me to crash then when I yelled at her to get down she freaked out and decided to go under desk where my cables are and got tangled in HDMI and unplugged monitor LOL. Thank goodness we have drop races and a 36 race season so I can make up for a bad finish. But I did get some better Camry Cup car pictures

Here is the you tube link to Tonight's (Thursday) broadcast and I am running the #333, This is open setup series so I hope I spent enough time massaging my setup to run up front. North West Truck Series race at Michigan Via iRacing and LSRTV Dang almost forgot Race grid is at 9:00 PM PDT The broadcast starts at around 8:45 PM PDT

@nanobot You should look up the iRacing Youtube channel as well as LSRTV on Youtube as they have all sorts of races Broadcast from, Dirt Midgets, Winged Sprints, UMP as well as the Coca Cola iRacing Pro Series and misc Road course stuff too. I hear quite a few people talk about it like it is a arcade game or so on, But in reality they have done a great job with making the tracks look and feel exactly like the real world ones as well as working the telemetry and physics to be as close to real as possible ( Obviously there is not the G forces or the wind nor the possibility of injury if you wreck) but it still takes a lot of commitment to practicing etc. to even be close to competitive. Some of the races I have done I have ran 5-8 Times the laps of the race to fine tune my setups and get so I can hit my marks each lap etc. I have put in on occasion 4 to 5 hours practicing to run a 1 hour race.

Here are 2 quick Pics I got of the Testmy.net Tundra I'll be running tonight at Michigan, I have a practice I am getting ready to do ( Just waiting for USPS they are supposed to Deliver a 15 " 1500 Watt 4 Ohm Sub and I cannot hear door if I have my headphones on I use for racing LOL) I will get a few more pics at better angles during practice to share to really show how the truck looks.

Ya I seen the way did not do a very good job of showing my car or the Logos on it, Though I guess I can expect that as I have missed some of the cup races , the truck though I have not missed any. I'm sorry I thought I posted my car is the #333 I'm also the #333 in truck. It is kinda Ironic how I had to give up positions as to not wreck the #40 car 5-6 different times for his driving tactics then he ends up winning and I get 7th. Thing is that kind of stuff is what i'll remember next time and maybe won't be so giving, It just takes a Minor bump at Corner entrance to cause the car in front to push wide allowing to to easily pass underneath without wrecking them. Ill work on getting some better pics, Just realized I usually save the replays and upload to you tube but rarely get a 360° set of pictures of car or truck sitting still.

HA found the link to Mondays Cup series event lol, took me forever LOL iRacing NW Cup Series Michigan :)

So some know I run 2 cars in a League and have TMN Logos on them as what a better place to spread the word then some place where your internet speed and latency is equal if not more important to success. Our league Broadcasted our races last year on a smaller company which this year purchased the rites and merged with two huge broadcasting companies so now on Mondays and Thursdays were on on LSRTV which is livesimracing.com. I do not get anything from this but a cool truck and cup looking car and just thought I would remind everyone in case anyone is interested in watching Sim racing some time. I will update this post prior to the Monday race and Thursday race at Milwaukie Speedway with the links One last sort a off topic question?? I see I started using TMN back in 2009 ( I thought it was earlier could be wrong) When did TMN officially start anyway For some reason I was thinking 2001-2003 possibly no idea where I came up with that year just was in my head.

But still... you're getting 50% of that. Over the years I've stated in general that you should get at least 80% before complaining. Which is 20/2.4 Mbps... right about where your speed was before. Interesting how much I have forgotten over the years I remember this you said oMG back when I started using Testmy.net. SO even when I was at my best connections (pre Pandemic) I was just hovering around the 78-80% range. What IRKS me most is the blatant way Xfinity, and im sure others to push their speed tests and recommend you test to the closest server to your location (Then try to blame the suns position, the Ethernet cable, my Gaming desktop with mega RAM, best NIC must be the problem I was so mad on time I asked the tech if next he was going to say since my cat was orangish colored that was the problem)as network traffic over distance will degrade or (Turn SLUG-ISH) When we all know every thing we search for download, stream, etc. is always located as close to your location as possible correct? I mean I must of been insane thinking I needed good speed and low latency to the servers in Boston since they are far from me I am being super sarcastic BTW to those who may not realize this

Well one thing this Pandemic has done has been great for some companies, IE iRacing and anyone who sells sim Racing hardware like Wheels, Pedals, Sim rigs and computers. I seen in one post or tweet that since NASCAR has been doing the iRacing stuff on fox and FS1 that about 30,000 people have signed up for iRacing and every single wheel, pedal, sim rig has been sold out from every place I have looked. The original reason I mentioned this before I sidetracked myself was to let the Testmy.net people know (All my iRacing vehicles have testmy.net decals on them) is we finally have a new server farm installed on the west coast so what was an average of 133-200 MS Ping has now been dropped to between 33-66 which is awesome .

Has anyone else noticed from 25-40% drop in speed since the isolation has been ordered? I remember seeing it somewhere and was thinking I must be lucky as my speed has been same till 3 days ago now I am about 50% of Xfinity advertised speed and just wanted to get other members feedback thanks .

I do not use Facebook but do use OBS it looks like the settings you have here are the same ones You Tube calls for I imagine it is close for Face book, Though I have been hearing a lot of people complaining about streaming and Facebook. Have you tried streaming to you tube or Twitch Oh one thing I just noticed yo are using the NVENC encoder I read in the OBS Wiki that you will get better quality of stream using the Software encoder and the CPU if possible, but if you are recording then the NVENC Encoder is much better. I deal with a lot of people who stream iRacing I myself take the replays record them and upload that as change camara views along with cars so I cannot stream as it would only show my cockpit view. I would also look to see what Face Book is using if anything as the Codec of your stream I found that when uploading videos you tube actually re encodes them and if you are not a top you tube channel wither in views and/or subscribers they use a older AVC codec if you are one of the channels mentioned or upload as 1440P/60 they use the VP09 Codec

oh ya tour right I remember that now it was just like you said , it was much smaller more like my Creative X-fi 5.0 Pro usb sound card about the size of 1-1/2 credit cards and 1/2 thick had the Monitor out, keyboard and mouse connection, this here is much larger, Sorry to have be incorrect about your setup.

Ok thanks, It is nice to have someone like you to help with stuff like this Thank you so much for all you do with the site and the amount of great information you share

I think those are Nodes? I may have name wrong we had those at the fab shop i worked. I think the server is the main system and those are just like access points instead of running multiple computers and connecting via LAN

SO recently iRacing has been dumping me from the servers (they) iRacing says they checked and all is good on their end and I say well I test my internet connection and speed like fanatic and i'm all good so it is dying some place, they suggested I get Ping Plotter Program and run it pre session and leave it on in case this happens again so I have I assume data to show what is up. before I do that I wanted to make sure that is something I should use or do you have a better app or suggestion on what I should do? plus this is where they suggested I ping I think you had said this to me when you showed me issues they have which i do not know if they ever did anything about them . ipv6:bosrace01-orig.iracing.com Thanks, oh BTW new paint came out and now the outline of testmy.net is Chrome, will get vids posted soon as I have a computer now able to create them in HD.

Sweet, 16" of snow pre turkey day, reminds me of when I was like 12 or 13, a long long time ago. we would have thanksgiving at my grandmas and aunts and uncles and cousins would show up and we would play in the snow. The disadvantage of cable is that fact correct the more people on the (Node) the slower it gets, Dose the Fibre optic type of service eliminate that or does it just get all bottle necked where those all connect? I think we here in Milwaukie, Oregon we have 5 or 6 houses connected to 1 main cable out next to my tree , all our cables be it phone, internet/tv or electricity is underground in neighborhood but still I find xfinity seems to have outages times a year.

Yea actually they have a Suggestions department for people who have Legitimate (useful suggestions) like this. I will mention that as Surprisingly not all users are high speed internet customers ( Wait first what is considered high speed now days?0 I remember high speed was 1500/768 at one time, Kbps that is. would a 20 Mbps connection be high speed? or does it need to be like 200Mbps or higher? One of the guys on my team I help with setups lives outside of Spokane Washington (Rural area) and his internet is best he can get but nothing like what is available locally here. My Parents live in a 55 and Older town in washington and all they can get is this company called Centurytel.net and to me seems they are stuck using the technology and speed from like 2005 Ill make a suggestion to them and see what they say.

Yea we do a Destruction derby after the races, Usually Cody the broadcaster guy pans off to scenic view this time he left it on the winner, I was the third guy to hit him, I was hoping coming up backwards I would catch them off guard, But forgot these things are made to go left not right so it was crazy hard to drive in that direction. Hopefully I will get up there with my Xfinity car too so it can be seen on youtube. I also am looking for parts to build a dedicated iRacing computer and as soon as I do that I have about 50 Races I will start Encoding and posting to youtube. It is kinda cool though now the VRN (Virtual racing Network) Uses Testmy.net as well as 4 of the other drivers since I started running these paints I need to learn more about your latency feature as that would be a huge item all Racers should be using to be sure all is good when racing, Sadly we get a lot of people who Blink Out (Disappear) in the races (Mostly official ones not so much this league) due to bad internet Latency and it can cause huge issues like wrecks etc.. Sadly a ton of people bought into the ISP pushing their recommended test sites and think if they show good they are fine and i have seen so many posts about how the So and SO test site shows all good but when racing their Quality and latency is bad.

So last nights race at ISM in my league was awesome, got some great coverage and mentioning of the Testmy.net site. No I am not officially sponsored by the site, but due to the great tools and time I have been a a member of Testmy.net and watched the site expand I could think of no better way to say thanks not to mention a better tool for those who run the Simulation as it needs great internet reliability and there is none better to use to ensure you are in top shape. I added a link stating from where race starts, I hope you guys enjoy this and thank you for all the help you have provided to allow me to keep Xfinity honest and tools to know my internet is up to snuff. iRacing ISM race in the Testmy.net Tundra

The Testmy.net pro 4 LOORS running at Wildhorse (iRacing)

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.