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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.

I get 4-5 Mbps upload speeds and 50-54 down on a 50 down and 5 up plan with Time Warner. On my prior 10 down and 1 up plan I rarely got above 0.5-0.7 up and down speeds were 5-8 Mbps typically. In simplistic terms: If you're connected wirelessly from your computer to your cable modem router, you will get essentially the same up and down speeds that you would with an Ethernet connection if your computer is close to your cable modem router, and there aren't walls between the computer and the modem.. This assumes your computer is fairly new and doesn't have the older slower wireless. The farther away you go from the modem, and the more walls and cabinets or furniture there is, the slower it will be.

When you say you have 50 Mbps from your modem, do you mean that that's what the ISP plan your on is supposed to be for a max speed? Is it about 25 Mbps here on this site? Is it about 25 Mbps at all times of the day? When you look at your test plots, does it ever reach near the 50 Mbps?

this tool is extremely valuable in trending long term performance data. i use it with the same test file sizes every time. i also try to test at close to the same time of day each time, but also try to take data at different times of day too to sort of randomize the data. When you look at the average over 1, 7, 30, 90, 180, etc days and compare the averages you can see if you're trending down, flat or up over time. and since you can select on the plot points, you can look at the problem points to see what time of day the problems were occurring. When the trend is down, it's potentially an equipment degradation or it's showing you an issue with the ISP; either an overload of customers on your local route or on one of the ISP's rented lines from other companies. The time of day data is helpful in clearing your equipment i.e. when you have certain times of day when the speeds are very good and stable, and another time of day it isn't, then it's not likely a problem with your equipment (although that's not 100% certain as big temperature swings can aggravate hardware problems if they're there). there's certainly lots of other value in the tools here other than trending the speed database, especially when there is a problem and you're troubleshooting. maybe it was already obvious about the trending, if it was, this is just a good plug for CA3LE's site.

I test on both the Dallas server and the Washington DC server because where I'm located, they are similar distances from me. Plus they are east and south of me which covers a large area where I'd likely be routed for typical web surfing.

Happy Thanksgiving Day. I'm thankful I'm still around at 66, thankful that all the kids and grandkids are doing well, thankful that my parents did a good job showing me right from wrong, and thankful for the friends I've had over the years.

Welcome fro SW Ohio in the US

Well, as soon as I open my big mouth about how good TWC has been, they do this 1st four points are on the Dallas server, 2nd four are on the DC server

I've had the same TWC 50/5 plan here since the first of the year or so, and I typically get results on my iMac with Ethernet in the 48-54 Mbps range down ( depending on time of day) and 5.2 to 5.4 up. It's been like that for over 10 months. Whenever it's below those numbers, it's usually better minutes later. Thus far TWC Cincinnati seems to have solved their performance issues - they were terrible on the 20/1 plan, where it typically gave me between 3 and 14 down, and 0.8 up.

Don't accept their answer So my internet-provider can be responsible only within my city and can't affect to this situation, because i recieve 49mbits on speedtest.net and this "meets the quality of services provided by them". They are an Internet Service Provider not an Internet connection provider. Although they may not own equipment that they link to, they do have a responsibility to provide their advertised speeds. It's up to them to work with their contracted companies providing the paths for their customers. If those paths are overloaded, it's their responsibility to provide you with faster paths beyond your city. It can be done by them. Time Warner Cincinnati has done it here - it took quite a while but they are much better than they used to be, and their speeds to their local connection points were rarely the problem. There were issues with where they ported me to. I'll let CA3LE explain what to do next (he's a lot better at it than me". What's your ISP's so-called "guaranteed" Download and Upload speeds?

My plan is 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up. I choose 50 MB for download tests and 5 MB for upload tests. This gives me pretty consistent and accurate results without having to wait too long.

This one's an original (we have about 15 or so) from 1990. We broke up in late '95 and just got back together about 9 months ago.

That was recorded live in a bar in Wichita with a home reel-to reel recorder with two mics out on a table in the middle of the room. One of the band mates still had a cassette copy a couple of years ago and sent it to me. The tape was so old it had a few smudges in it, but it does still sound pretty good. HAH. I was 25 then. I'm 66 now and still sing and play that one out in the band I'm in now.