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I noticed about a month ago that my speeds via Ethernet to TIme Warner Cable had dropped. I power cycled the cable modem and my router today and got my speeds back to where they were. The trend plot was very helpful CA3LE. I guess every once in a while you need to clear their brains out. Not sure if the Cable Modem or the Router did the trick but I'm guessing the modem. I was just about ready to call Time Warner on the lower speeds, but today I was by myself here and nobody using the equipment except me, so I power cycled everything.

a little while later, about 11 PM, the Multi and Single thread tests were about the same.

Well I tried Firefox vs Safari using Multithreading tonight. They both had very similar results. Both were a little slower than the single thread tests by about 20% maybe. I did the tests during peak hours - about 10:30 PM. My single thread results were only about 35 down where they are usually at 50 during off-peak hours. The Multithread tests were in the 28 Mbps down range. My plan has a 5 Mbps upload max which I was reaching during Combined testing tonight. Is it possible that the 5Mbps up limit comes into play more during Multithread testing and slows the process down? My mid 2010 iMac is only an i3 processor, but with nothing else running I wouldn't think that it would be the bottleneck. But I don't pretend to understand the Multithread process and how much it taxes the main processor.

Thanks for the responses. Good to know CA3LE: "When it's the other way around and your multithread results are MUCH faster... then it's more cause for concern." I'll try another browser on the iMac

Pretty much all of the hardware in the iPhone 6 having to do with speed is 1 or 2 generations advanced over the 4th gen iPad. Assuming your AirPort Extreme is a newer ac model, with the data processing and wifi input/output processing capability the phone has, when you test your phone while in close proximity to your AEBS, you may be hitting your ISP plan max speed. I read another article that said that their device was twice as fast an 802.11ac as it was at the same distance on 802.11n. So that, combined with the improved processors and memory speeds of the IP6, it's not surprising that there's a significant difference. However, I get about 37-40 Mbps on my iPad 2 with an older "n" AEBS, but only when the iPad is sitting right next to the base station. I get 45-53on my 5S (virtually the same as my iMac over Ethernet, When I move 30ft away and through a wall and some kitchen cabinets, it's only a little over 20 Mbps on the iPad.. So there's a lot of factors. Again, my ISP plan max is 50 down.

I saw one review of the 4g iPad and they got 37 Mbps. Another review of the iPhone 6 got 103 Mbps. Pretty close to what you got. So I'd say it's real. What's your plan max?

Well. The A8 processor in the 6 Plus can be "up to" 2.5x as fast as the A6X in the 4th gen iPad. The 6 Plus also has ac WiFi vs n for the iPad. Not sure if your wifi router is ac capable, but if it is, the ac speeds can be 3x the n speeds. The 6 Plus is a 64 bit machine where the iPad 4Th gen is a 32 bit. I don't know whether Apple uses a 64 bit data path between the processor and the WiFi I/O though. It does seem like a big difference though. My 5S is way faster at everything than my iPad 2 and like yours, the 5S processor is two generations newer. But both my machines run wireless right up to my 50 Mbps plan limit, so I can't compare like you're doing.

Try clearing all cookies and reset Safari. Most of the fixes I just looked at involved some cookie causing a conflict.

Pretty impressive. I'm not sure the Ethernet cabling in my house would even do those speeds. I think all my cables are only cat5.

After reading a lot of reviews a couple of years ago, the SB6141 was the one that I had chosen to buy. I instead upgraded my plan with TWC and they gave me the ARRIS as part of their Signature Home plan. It was better than the older DOCISS 2 modem I was using prior to that. It has never given me any problems so I chose not to buy the SB6141, but it was on the list of modems that TWC supported.

Thanks for the response. I don't have any 3rd party protection software, only what is built into Mac OS 10.9.5. That and whatever is built into my old D-Link DI-604 router. When I set it up, I didn't do anything special. Not sure if Time Warner is doing anything different during the Multithread testing. For single thread testing I almost always get slightly above their advertised 50/5 plan speeds. I'm not sure the slower multithread testing results are telling me anything about my performance in real world web page loading. Whenever the single thread test results are at or near the 50/5 maxes, I get good web surfing response except for site that I know are always slow.

Mine are always about 25-40% slower. From the description of Mutithread test here on TMN: "Enabling the multithread speed testing option on your download speed test can really open up your connection for maximum throughput." It doesn't matter what time of day I choose. Typically I would select the Wash DC and Dallas servers. When I add the west coast servers, it's even slower.

I see differences similar to what you're seeing here on my Arris TG862G cable modem connected to TWC on a 50/5 plan. I see the differences when I switch from a single thread test on the Washington server to the Dallas server. I always assumed it could be explained by instantaneous loads at TWC and/or whoever they rent Internet bandwidth from. I don't have the equipment or software to measure anything local. Seems like the only way to get a definitive answer on your two modems would be to disconnect them from the Internet and load them with a simulated Internet interface. I also don't really have detailed knowledge on any of this. All I have is a lot of data points

Never load a new OS release on your business or personal prime machine unless you want to be an unpaid Beta tester. And do a full backup before you upgrade.

Perhaps the town government people can offer some kind of tax break to PLDT over a long period of time to help cover their investment costs. The people might be willing to pay a small extra tax to cover that. Convince the town government people that it would help make the area more attractive for people to visit or live and be part of their long term growth plan.

Hi from SW Ohio. The down side of living where you do I guess. I've been in the Seattle area and it's beautiful there, so I guess it's a pretty good trade off.

Mbps is left over from the early day of dial up modems where the bit rate were in the low Kbps. Keeping things in bits/sec is good. A byte is 8 bits. Digital words have different numbers of bits (8, 16, 32, 64 etc). Regardless of word size the bit/sec rate can be converted to number of words/sec. If they changed to MBytes/sec, to convert to words/sec you'd have to multiply by 8 then divide by 16, 32, 64 etc. as it is now you just divide the bps by the word length (16, 32, 64) to get the word/sec number.

I just looked on a map. It looks like Zambowood Elementary School is only 8 km (5 miles) from Zamboanga city. Maybe you could get the school board and the local Zamboanga city government officials to put together a proposal to PLDT to include the area where the school is rather than having individuals calling the company. Approach it from the angle that the high speed Internet is required for the school to prepare children for the modern world. If enough people in the area of the school demanded that the Zamboana town officials try to do something, maybe something might happen.

mine read about the same on all three when i choose cities that are the same or a similar distance away from me. all of the OOKLA tests used to be way overly optimistic. i believe they changed from Flash based to html5 based testing in the not too distance past. not sure i'd trust any of them other than TMN.

Sounds like they made a mistake. Do what CA3LE said. Indeed, they may give you a credit.

Are you testing with wireless or Ethernet?

Call them back again and give them your case number for the problem. Tell them the problem is still there, and that you need assistance. Is your computer a laptop? Are you connecting via wireless or Ethernet?

The results shown at the bottom are for 5 different people, yours being the top. It's only a little snapshot of what's going on at TMN. The horizontal bar graph is just your data compared to your prior avg, your cit and your provider averages. To see only your test results, go to the Results link in the upper right. All results on that page will be your own. There you can filter the data by extra identifier and by amount of data (date range). You can select your test ID (right side in each row) to plot that particular download test.

Hi from SW Ohio in the US Yes, I have issues like this. They don't always persist longer than a few 10s of seconds, then there are better speeds. But then another slowdown will happen. It's intermittent. Most of the time, mine doesn't clear up until 1-2 AM. It's usually worse on the weekends. I'm on Time Warner's 50/10 plan. When I get these slowdowns though, if I run another speed test, the problem is usually gone. If I run another test an hour later, I may or may not have the slowdown. The bottlenecks don't always happen during the same segment of the speed test either, so there doesn't seem to be one particular location as the offender. Seems like just random events where somebody is really hogging bandwidth for a short time.

I would say there was an issue with your wireless. If I go out into my garage, I can get readings on my ipad that are 1/3 my Ethernet. Sometimes it's better. When I'm very close to my wireless router, I get about 35 Mbps on the iPad and anywhere from 13 to 34 Mbls in the garage, depending on how I'm holding the iPad. There's just one too many walls