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Yeah, that was kinda weird. Like you didn't have enough to do huh?

Yes. Mine's still plenty fast enough. I wasn't really thinking about upgrading any time soon, but that new one sure sounds nice.

Oh baby. Mine's a mid-2010 model. I'm due

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

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

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.

Hi from SW Ohio

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.

Haha. I had to go look in the mirror

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.

Welcome from SW Ohio in the US.

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.

TestMy itself has plenty of bandwidth. Not sure if your speed tests were taken on the same day and time. I've seen speeds be 30% lower here during peak usage hours, at times on weekends. Get an average of multiple tests on both machines over a period of days, and take the readings at the same time of day on both. See if there's a common trend for time of day. If you're using wireless between your device and the cable modem, make sure you are at the same distance from the wireless point each time. The gf speeds are the same as mine on that 50/5 plan. I assume from your description that the two PCs are the same. Also select fixed test sizes by doing the Download test (like 50 MB down, and 5 MB up.) each time rather than the express test for this data taking. I see speeds at 30% lower than my 50Mbps typical that I get during off hours. I'm roughly in the middle between the Dallas and Washington servers. Sometimes it's slower on one, sometimes the other. Many times when I get a slow reading, I'll get a faster one only minutes later which makes me think that whoever TWC uses as a supplier of the backbone, somewhere along the path there's congestion. You can set up an auto test.

After about 8 months now, the service is still pretty solid. During busy hours and especially on weekends, the download rates are down from close to 50 Mbps to the lower mid-30s to low 40s on average, but there are a lot more short term low readings going on where the test plot shows dips down below 20 and sometimes in the single digits. There must be a ton of people now eating bandwidth compared to a year or two ago. Off hour weekday averages are in the 50-54 Mbps range. ....on my wired 2010 iMac But the path that TWC is using from Cincinnati to the TestMy server in Dallas is a lot slower than the one to Washington, DC

After the large number is Mbps (mega bits per second, which is million bits per second). The next number is the number of 8-bit bytes so it's the Mbps divided by 8, and it's shown in MB/s which means mega bytes per second. A byte is an 8-bit digital word made of of 8 bits. At least that's what I think you were asking about.

I don't have any detailed knowledge about it. I too read up on it a little when I was researching gigabit Ethernet switches, where some of them supported Jumbo Frames and some didn't. I ordered one that supported it. I can't remember for sure if all my other equipment supported it though, and I can't remember if Time Warner actually uses them. Sorry I wasn't of any help.

Welcome from Southwest Ohio in the US. And CA3LE, what's the tool that you just released?

i don't do it very often either, maybe twice a year. i don't buy any 3rd party clean-your-Mac or speed-up-your-Mac kind of software. i used to buy that stuff but the benefit per dollar spent per year on it never seemed to be worth it. the safe boot along with disk utility has served me well for a long time now just as periodic checker-tweakers. the only real issues i've had in years have been related to iCloud syncing across 3 devices (two iOS and one Mac) where one or more of them will not be the same-like Reminders or Calendars. iCloud is still pretty new. and Apple's support forum has some pretty sharp people that provide answers pretty quickly. the level 8 thru 10 guys there usually have the right answer, and they are more familiar with where certain Apple support documentation is. one lesson i learned was - don't knock a Firewire cable out out of a peripheral drive during a Time Machine backup. the cable came out of one drive in the last drive in the chain (and it wasn't the Time machine backup drive). the result was pretty ugly. the backup volume got corrupted, and i had to format it. the last drive in the chain wouldn't even mount until i not only powered down the computer but had to de-power all the firewire drives. the lesson learned was when you have a house cleaning service person come, shut EVERYTHING down.

From Apple's support site: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1564

I'm not sure what exactly happens when you boot in safe mode, but I've seen comments on Apple's Discussion Forums where for some odd problems, they have recommended doing it. I'm guessing it clears out caches, zaps p-ram ? I don't know if it does anything outside of the System folder. I should probably read up on it. Every once in a while I do it "just because". Haha. If you had a bootable OS on an external drive it would be interesting to compare the drive speeds. I don't think the HDDs they put in the laptops are particularly fast, their usually low power designs at 5400 rpm. Not sure about hers. I'm not sure it'll be very easy to replace that HDD. Check iFixit for that model.

How full is the HDD?

Try shutting down, then restarting in safe mode. Hold shift key down when you hear the startup chime. This cleans out some stuff. If you can, boot from another HDD with a clean install OS and see if that makes a difference. You can look in the main root directory Library and see if there are any odd looking files in the LaunchAgents and LaunchDaemons folder. Not the Library in the System folder, but the Library folder at the top level of the int HDD.

Holy crap. Must be a limitation of my AEBS + Cable Modem/ISP plan. My plan is 50 max and I exceed that (53-54 at times) on my wired iMac. But I've only seen low-mid 40s on my wireless. I have 7 things hooked to the 802.11n AEBS. Don't know if that slows it down a little or not. Even when I'm standing right next to the AEBS I rarely see above 42-43.

The 42 Mbps you got looks like what might be about the max throughput for the iPhone 5s. That's about what I get on the 5s using WiFi thru my AirPort Extreme Base Station 802.11n. The AEBS is hooked to a 100 Mbps router and then the 100 Mbps cable modem. When I'm getting about 42 on the iPhone with Wifi, my Ethernet wired connected iMac gets about 52-54 Mbps, the max of my plan.....I only get that consistently from about midnight to 8 AM. When I run the iMac with WiFi running and Ethernet disconnected, I get the same numbers as with it wired. So I think the 42 Mbps number is about max for that phone. Amazing that you can get that on a phone connection. With my AT&T LTE, I'm getting about 11 Mbps avg on the iPhone. That's about 3-4x faster than my IPhone 4 was on AT&T. If I remember right, it usually came in at about 3 Mbps.