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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.
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I have over 50mbps coming from my modium.
Pgoodwin1 replied to rabovee's topic in General Discussion
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.
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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.
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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.
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Welcome fro SW Ohio in the US
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tmn is now giving results that are too fast
Pgoodwin1 replied to spypet's topic in General Discussion
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 -
tmn is now giving results that are too fast
Pgoodwin1 replied to spypet's topic in General Discussion
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?
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Yeah, that was kinda weird. Like you didn't have enough to do huh?
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Yes. Mine's still plenty fast enough. I wasn't really thinking about upgrading any time soon, but that new one sure sounds nice.
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Oh baby. Mine's a mid-2010 model. I'm due
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HAHAHAHA. Imagine how I felt. Just kidding. I knew what you meant, and I'm glad you figured it out quickly. Everything's working OK. Thanks
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when I'm on the DC server/TestMy.net Home page, and hit the Test My Internet button, I get a blank Safari page with only this message: "Could not connect: Host 'XX.XX.XX.XX' is not allowed to connect to this MySQL server" Note - I X'd out the real IP address. It doesn't give me this error on the Dallas server. Also, if I go to the server select page and choose the DC server! it will run a Combined test if I choose the "Combined" link in the text/link box right below the Test My Internet button. However, when the test completes, if I hit the ReTest button, I get the same error. On the Dallas server, I don't get this error message doing any of the above. Also, I've never had this error before today. it exhibits this behavior on both the iMac running OS 10.9.5 and Safari 7.1 and my iPad 2 running iOS 7.1.2 I've tried resetting Safari - no help. Rebooted the computer - no change Other info: if I run individual Download and Upload tests on the DC server, there are no issues. Also, I've made no changes to either the iMac or iPad hardware or software. I don't know exactly how long ago this problem started. I noticed it today, but I haven't run Combined tests for a while. I've been running (almost exclusively) separate download and upload tests with fixed sizes on both the Dallas and DC servers the past few weeks
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My upload speed is typically 1/8 to 1/10 of my download speed on Time Warner. Time Warner's plan I'm on is 50 down and 10 up max. Most of the time I'm close to those numbers using my wired Ethernet computer.
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It used to be that if there were more of one type than the other it would line up on the left, then you could look at the plot and count the number of points more there were on one or the other. Like I said, not a problem, just a feature that changed somehow. You can always look at the table and see how many more of one there is.
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Hello from a newbie and question re streaming while testing
Pgoodwin1 replied to bretherton's topic in New Members
Haha. I had to go look in the mirror -
Internet connection slow via cable but faster via Wi-Fi
Pgoodwin1 replied to mihai101's topic in General Help
My wireless is never faster than the wired Ethernet, although I have a wireless router that's separate from the modem. But that shouldn't matter. Unless your PC is old and a slow machine ( so old it has limited processor speeds and RAM or so old it only has 10 Mbps Ethernet) compared to the laptop, the Ethernet connection should be the fastest. -
Here's a strange one the results plots, where I'm viewing both the Download and the Upload plots simultaneously. When selecting "iPad Detected", the data points of the Upload plot don't align vertically withe the Download data points. They used to until the last day or two. It looks as though the Upload plot is centered on the graph rather than lining up with the left most point of the Download plot above it. When I select "Den/Study", it plots lined up OK. It views this way on both my Mac and my iPad. I'll take some screen shots and post for clarity. Here's the one displaying the behavior. The one above is iPad Detected results. The pic below is Den/Study results. . It appears to me that the iPad Detected upload plot is on a different x-axis scale than the download plot. There's the right number of data points in each (there's more points in the download plot because I did more download tests). Note: The data plotted contains results from separate Upload and Download tests. And there's not an equal number of test data points. Also, I'm not objecting to it displaying this way. I'm just noting that it's different for the iPad Detected than it is for the Den/Study which looks the way it has always looked.
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Hello All! New Member here! Welcome me Dammit! LOL
Pgoodwin1 replied to poettone's topic in New Members
Welcome from SW Ohio in the US. -
is the internet slow ~or~ is testmy so limited ?
Pgoodwin1 replied to spypet's topic in General Discussion
Happy for you figuring it out. I've been thinking about increasing my plan with TWC. Good to see you can actually come close to their advertised speeds when testing on this site.