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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

I looked at your two test points. One was about 3.1 Mbps and the other about 10.6 Mbps. There are multiple possibilities for it varying that much including your computer, the equipment at your home, the ISP equipment outside your home and routes along the path to the TestMy server. I assume you tested at your house. Try taking some more readings during different times of day. If you do some speed tests after midnight and they are fast and they're slow during the day, that may indicate your ISP is overloaded with customers that are sharing service with you. If it's erratic all the time, you'll need to try to isolate the problem to either inside your house or outside your house. If you have another computer at home, see if it behaves the same. If it's erratic too, call your ISP and tell them. It's not uncommon to see the variation you're seeing during heavy usage hours ( like the Saturday 4 PM time you tested) if your ISP is overloaded. Are you testing via wireless? If yes, try testing while close to your wireless router and see if you get better results. If you have an Ethernet connection to use, try testing via Ethernet instead of wireless. If that testing is faster and more consistent, then you may be testing while too far away from your router to get consistent results. That isn't a thorough set of troubleshooting instructions, but do that stuff and let us know what the results are.

Try taking your Pismo to a friend's house in a different area of town that has TWC and try it. If it's bad there too compared to their average speeds when you test their computers using TMN. try it at another friend's house that uses someone other than TWC if you don't see improvement at the first friend's place.

Hi from SW Ohio in the US. I'm quite sure the cable would be better, but I've never had an antenna hookup for Internet service. If you could find somebody close to where you live that has that ISP, ask them if you could try their setup and run the download and upload test here.

I would say that most likely the wires they give you for their system is adequate. I don't know how good your speeds are compared to what your plan says is the Download and Upload speeds supported, but if you're not getting close to what they are saying you should get, the wires would typically be pretty far down on the list unless they were old or have had a lot of physical handling.

Hah. After I figured out what it was, I asked myself how I'd been that stupid

I noticed a few weeks back that my Wireless speed test results on my iPad had been trending down for a couple of months. When I'd test with the iPad right next to the AirPort Extreme Base Station on my desk, the speeds were good. I noticed a stack of papers and CDs on the desk only 6" or so from the AEBS that had slowly over time gotten to be about 10" high, effective putting a pretty solid wall along one edge of the AEBS. I slid the pile over to the middle of the desk (away from the AEBS and went back out into the garage (my smoking & iPad lounge), and ran some tests. Much faster. In the past two weeks since I moved the pile, it's been about 1/3 faster consistently. Conclusion: Paper piles are much more dense than house walls. The pile is still in the middle of my desk.

Your speed plot is pretty typical of what I see on Time Warner Cable too. You may test it again seconds later and the plot will be very flat, except for the start and finish. Then seconds later it may be worse. If you're running via WiFi, try connecting via ethernet and see if you get similar results. When I'm running on wireless and don't have great signal strength because of distance from the wireless router (or number of walls) I get much more variation, and typically lower Max speeds.

I remember in the early 1980s when software quality and configuration control meant writing (in ballpoint pen on a floppy) "this is the latest version"

Ho Ho Ho. Merry Christmas.

I typically get lower speeds when multi threading

I don't know why lowering your plan max speed to 12 would be a good option when you were getting 15 before on the 18 plan. Getting a 15% lower than max speed during peak usage hours is probably not bad, as long as you were close to the 18 during the non-peak usage hours. I don't have experience with AT&T as an ISP

CA3LE who designed and operates this site has quite a bit of info. Pick the Flash tab here. https://testmy.net/legit-speed-test.php And his info on the home page - see tabs in the middle of the page. https://testmy.net

Hi and welcome fro SW Ohio Amazingly, your results look like what my Time Warner Cincinnati speeds were about a year ago on a 10 Mbps down and 1 Mbps up plan I was on during the hours of about 9 AM to midnight. I have a 50/5 plan now and TWC has cleaned up their act.