Pgoodwin1

Ca3LE. Can't wait.

What extension is on the 319 MB file?

Hello from SW Ohio

Are you connecting via wireless or Ethernet? If wireless, connect via Ethernet and see if it acts the same.

Thanks for the info. Certainly looks like my power levels and SNR are fine.

Just wondering if the downstream levels were too high? I've seen them at over 6 dBmv. Been having erratic operation lately. Wondering if levels are high enough to cause distortion. When things were working better, they were down in the 4-4.5 range Also, I see Uncorrecables now and then. I don't know what they are, or the ramifications Or Correcteds for that matter

I got a similar response from my ISP: “things test fine to our infrastructure, we can’t control the rest of the Internet, we don’t know what to tell you.” when I was having similar issues. The very name Internet Service Provider means that they're selling more than just the connection. They are supposed to be managing how their customers are being routed. I don't know how they do that (contracts with other ISPs?) but they will do something if enough customers complain. "Miraculously" one day, they upgraded their service and things got 2-3x better, until just recently when things have begun to slow down again. You might try to find out who their other customers are and get a read on what their performance has been. If theirs too has been slow, get them to call in an issue. If theirs has been fast, ask the ISP what the difference is between you and them. Here's what Testmy's comments are on Speedtest.net https://testmy.net/ipb/topic/28902-why-do-my-results-differ-from-speedtestnet-ookla-speed-tests/

The numbers showing in my signature are a little dated. I just pulled up my 30 day averages and my wired iMac is at 48.9 / 5.3, and my older iPad 2 is at 27.3 / 4.3 on wireless. Amazingly my iPhone 5s is almost as fast as the wired iMac when on WiFi. iOS 7 Safari runs slower on the iPad 2 than it did in iOS 6.

Hi from SW Ohio. Just FYI. I have Time Warner's 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps up plan, and I consistently measure slightly above both those rates on my home Ethernet and Wireless through their 100 Mbps cable modem And that's as measured here on TestMy.

Thankfully, the major video streaming sites make apps for iOS devices and Flash isn't used. The apps are pretty good. They really only have to do a couple of things. Browse for videos, organize your list, and stream. They may lack a feature or two, but overall they are good. If there's an equivalent Android app, I wouldn't think the experience would be much different - don't know, I don't own one. I don't know if they're Flash free either. I would think they'd be Flash free to help the users save battery life. I get more Flash updates for security patches than any other software on my iMac. Not a good sign. The only bad thing about the Adobe Flash update site tips that the design is somewhat simple and has been copied to the point where identifying a counterfeit is very hard. I go into a state of terror every time I see one of the "a Flash update is available" messages come up.

What kind of up and down speed are you registering on this site? You might want to test 2 to 3 times consecutively, using the Dallas server. Then repeat this at 4 to 6 hour intervals. After a couple of days you can see what your average is now. You can look at this site's database - the Database pull down menu. Or go here for Brazil. https://testmy.net/country/br. Also go here: https://testmy.net/country/br and pick the ISP rank tab. You can view the Oi and Virtua data. Virtua data looks faster, but like you say, you don't know if that's because most of the Oi data tests were run by people with an inexpensive slower service. You might call Oi and ask them to run some tests on the TestMy.net site and see what they get for results and compare that to your results now on Virtua. Not sure if they'd do that, but it might be worth a try. You might want to go to their office and sit with someone and try the TestMy site. Maybe take your laptop? Not sure if they'd do anything like that, but it might be worth asking.

Hi from SW Ohio

Mine seems OK with it. I just installed a Flash update a few days ago but haven't spent much time on the computer since. Mostly on the iPad. I agree about developers and Flash. It's terrible for mobile devices. Even MS and Adobe have admitted as much. Why in this day web page designers still use Flash is beyond me. It's like they don't know that 20% of the people surfing the web are using devices that don't run it. Whenever I run into a page that won't run because it needs Flash, I copy/paste my standard message back to their feedback link. Here it is. Feel free to use it. Your lack of support for iOS devices is unconscionable at this point. Requiring Adobe Flash is holding you back. The number of iOS devices that are your potential customers number close to 1/2 billion.....that's 1/2 BILLION !!!!!! The world is changing and you're not changing with it. Most of the top Internet sites realize this and have updated their services to not require Adobe Flash. Adobe itself recognizes that Flash isn't suitable for mobile devices, and are no longer updating it for Android. Microsoft Windows 8 will have only limited support for it. Yes there's costs associated with updating your site but if even if only 0.1% of the 1/2 billion users that are sign up with you, that's 500,000 new customers. Your advertisers will pay for the upgrade to your site. We use our iPads and iPhones almost exclusively now. We only get on our desktop and laptop computers to do the heavy duty stuff. Looking at your web based services is not the heavy duty stuff. We want to be able to have fully functional sites on our browsers too; not a cheesed down app that doesn't give the user everything the full site does. When mobile device users see a website, and the first thing they see is a message telling them they need Adobe Flash and they can't use it on their device, they immediately close that browser page, and go to a page that doesn't require it. Mobile users would never bookmark a mobile unfriendly site. Mobile devices are fast replacing newspapers and magazines and the number of users looking at websites on mobile devices is rapidly dwarfing the desktop computer web-browsing population. And before long, few if any mobile devices will run Flash because it is a processor and battery eating piece of software with security vulnerabilities. What's your rationale for having a website where the majority of the web-browsing population sees nothing but "Adobe Flash Required" or the page controls don't work.? Requiring Flash on your website puts you in the same position as the buggy whip makers once cars took over in the early 20th century. Flash is 1990s technology. Move on and stay in business. I think since I wrote that a couple of years ago, the number is more like 700 million now

I'm about 2 ft from my 21.5" iMac. It's pretty bright and clear, but not Retina

And with 256:135, anything you view that's 16:9 will have unused screen areas. Something to think about. And what are you doing with your nose 17" from a 27 in monitor. That's how far away my iPad is. LOL That is a pretty cool tool though

Haha on the "Overkill. My favorite". You've attained it!

Interesting calculator for pixel density and viewing distance. http://isthisretina.com "What is a Retina display? Retina is Apple's trademark for a display so sharp that the human eye is unable to distinguish between pixels at a typical viewing distance. As Steve Jobs said: "It turns out there’s a magic number right around 300 pixels per inch, that when you hold something around to 10 to 12 inches away from your eyes, is the limit of the human retina to differentiate the pixels." Given a large enough viewing distance, all displays eventually become "retina." For a 32" 1080p TV, while the pixel density is only about 69 ppi, at 50" away, the display is about as good as most humans can resolve at that distance. With a 4K 32" 16:9 TV, you get the same effective resolution at 1/2 the distance or 25", which is about how far my iMac is away from me at my desk. So going to 8k resolution for a computer monitor might be overkill. Color accuracy and speed of the monitor become the more important factors at that point My iMac is a 21.5" model 1920x1080 21.5" iMac becomes Retina at 34". CA3LE. Move your 27" iMac so that it's 32" away from you and you probably won't see the pixels....it's 2560x1440.

Hi and welcome from SW Ohio in the US.

I average about 26 Mbps ( about 3.3 MB/s) on my iPad 2 via wireless - from all the way out in the garage. I have a 50 Mbps service from Time Warner Cable though. Even an old MacBook Pro with 802.11b wireless gets speeds about the same as the iPad.

Where do you see it? Where is the Mail Activity ?

I did TWC's Signature Home upgrade last October. 50 down, 5 up, and am getting download speed similar to yours. My uploads are about 5-5.3. On good days the download speed is even greater than 50, up around 53-54. I was on a 20/1 system before. It sure makes a difference. I need to update my signature. Those speeds are from before TWC fixed an issue.

What Comcast Internet speed package do you have? I've just read recently where Comcast may buy Time Warner Cable. I have a 50 Mbps down and 5 Mbps Up plan with TWC, and my wired times are usually 45-52 Mbps - at times they are a little lower. Just curious how close you are to Comcasts' "guaranteed" numbers.

Hello from West Chester, OH. Welcome.

Thanks for the fix on the content. I don't believe I was the one that had an issue going from v12 to v13; I don't think I've ever emailed you a message directly. I think I asked in a thread once how to get back and forth from 12 to 13. Funny, I don't remember what v12 was like - I am 65 yrs old, but I'm not too resistant to change though. I just upgraded to iOS 7. It's been out since Sept 8, but I don't typically dive into a major OS change until after a few updates. It was at 7.0.3 when I took the plunge. I just took the plunge on Mac OS 10.9 Mavericks the other day and it's been out since Oct 22. It's at 10.9.1. Pretty happy with both of those upgrades, although I don't yet know that much about the new capabilities in each one. I can't wait to see what you've been cooking up

also, the TIP graphs show the variation has gone way down. it used to be consistently 30-50%. it's now consistently less than 10%, and many of the tests are 1-3%. i wish i knew what they did to fix it.