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I called WC a month ago when I was getting those really low speeds. They blamed it on "the Internet", and I wasn't able to get any other answer except that it was somebody else's equipment. They must have other people call in about it, or the first of January 2014 they began service with another provider.

Late Dec or early Jan, TWC (or a company they're renting service from) fixed something. I'm now getting very close to the 50/5 service I'm signed up for. Some of those deep dips on the 60 day chart went down to 2-3 Mbps download - slower than the upload speed. It was painful.

CA3LE - It's been empty since late December when the mySQL database had the issues. I'm pretty sure some others users' was empty back then too. It doesn't seem to be logging new stuff either. This post didn't show up in My Content Not an urgent matter. Put it on your Reminders. Ha. And like one of my old bosses used to say when we were overloaded - hurry every chance you get.

Yeah, between the TIP stuff and the upcoming TraceMy stuff, it really will be freakin' awesome

Yeah, it must have been that.

Thanks. I figured something went down. I saw the database unavailable message come up for a while. I assumed that affected the My Content stuff too. The TIP plots are a great feature.

Except that it screams pretty good in the middle of the night. I called them and they pointed the finger at "the Internet". They said I was getting connected at high rates and the bottlenecks were not on TWC equipment. It could possibly be more and more streaming video and audio, and more complex web pages I suppose. But it's getting worse by the month. A year ago it used to slow down by 1/2 during the prime time hours 8 PM - 12 AM. Now it slows down by a factor of 10 from 8 AM until 2 AM the next day. And it's virtually the same every day. And it definitely got worse after Christmas.

Among my old (still working) computers, my 1994 PowerBook 520c still fires up and runs (on AC power, the battery is shot). I haven't used it for anything since about 2001. PowerBook 520c Introduced May 1994 Discontinued June 1995 (520) September 1995 (520c) Initial Price $2,900 ($4435 in 2013 dollars) Support Status Obsolete Weight and Dimensions 6.3 lbs. (520) 6.4 lbs. (520c), 2.3" H x 11.5" W x 9.7" D Processor Motorola 68LC040 Processor Speed 25 MHz Number of Cores 1 Coprocessor None Cache 8 KB L1 System Bus 25 MHz Storage 160 - 240 MB Media 1.44 MB floppy SOFTWARE Original OS System 7.1.1 (PowerBook 500 Series Enabler) Maximum OS Mac OS 8.1 Built-in Memory 4 MB Maximum Memory 36 MB Memory Slots 1 - PB 5xx Minimum Speed 70 ns Interleaving Support No Built-in Display 9.5" 8 bit (520c) passive matrix LCD Resolutions 640x480 Graphics Card None Graphics Memory 512k Display Connection Mini-15 Wi-Fi None Bluetooth None Ethernet AAUI-15 Modem None ADB 1 Serial 1 SCSI HDI-30 Display Connection Mini-15 Infrared None Audio In 1 - 3.5-mm analog input jack, 1 - Built-in microphone Audio Out 1 - 3.5-mm analog output jack, 1 - Built-in speakers Slots Modem, Optional Type II/III PC Card Bay Bays PowerBook Expansion Bay (90-pin) PDS Hard Drive Interface SCSI SENSORS Motion Sensor None POWER System Battery PB 500 Intelligent Battery (M1906) (NiMH) Maximum Continuous Power 40 W Our first Mac was a 1988 SE with a 20 MB HDD and 1 MB RAM - upgraded right away to the then max of 4 x 1 MB SIMMs @ $35 per MB!!!! We were still using that SE in 1999 for text editing on a shared network of newspaper writers. I still have an SE in the basement. My wife started a desktop publishing business with it and a LaserWriter printer in '88 and in 1990 we bought a small A&E newspaper. I believe she was the first newspaper in Cincinnati to paste up text and graphics onto the newspaper layouts. She was also the first to go fully digital - giving the printers a Zip drive instead of layouts. It took a long time for the newspaper printing companies to switch from cameras to the portable media. I think she started doing it digitally in 1996 or '97.

Yeah. I've been drooling over the new MBP. Our mid-2006 MBP is getting very long in the tooth. I put a bigger HDD in it, and some more RAM a couple of years ago, but it's only a Core Duo machine so it would measure like a pixel width on a pie chart comparison against the new one. We don't really have the great need for speed here so we're getting by with the old one and a mid-2010 iMac which is still a great machine but even it is only an i3 processor-HDD machine and no screamer. It handles all my music work really well though, as those files aren't very big. It would be nice though to wait only a fraction of a second to convert music file types rather than the 5-10 seconds I wait now. Still I lust over the new MBP. It would be nice to be able to use a laptop doing music in multiple places in the house - which I can't really do easily now.

New stuff isn't going in there either. I got a database unavailable message yesterday for a little while and the TestMy pages were just blank with that message.

When I hit the TID link in the results table, I no longer see the TIP plots. It gives you a message that "no TiP details on this result". It used to give you a plot of the speed vs test time. Just wondering if that function has been removed.

Thanks EB. Where did you get that info?

From near Cincinnati Ohio, I test using the Dallas, TX and Washington, DC servers. Download Speeds: - Over the past 6 months (or more) the average speeds during the hours from 2 AM to about 7 AM, I get good speeds - in the range of ~ 25 to 45 Mbps depending on the server selected. - Between the hours of about 9-10 AM until 12-1 AM the next day, the speeds have been getting slower and slower over the months. - A couple of months ago they used to dip down to ~ 8-12 Mbps during the peak usage hours. Now they are consistently in the 2-5 Mbps range. Upload speeds: they are fairly consistent and usually between 3.5 and 4.5 Mbps regardless of time of day. - Anyone else having similar drastic speed reductions during the daytime? - Has yours been getting worse over the past 6 months or so? I'm on TWC's 50 Mbps max down and 5 Mbps up max plan.

This seems to be a recent event. Until recently, it would list my prior posts. It says "There Is No Information To Show" now. Is that not where the list of my prior posted topics is?

They showed up in the TraceMy.net beta. But I can locate them now that the TraceMy beta isn't there any more.

Merry Christmas CA3LE.

i'm running OS 10.8. i haven't experienced the browser sleeping stuff you're describing, but i haven't tried uploading a GB of data either. some months ago I did upload GB of data but it was in smaller 3-10 MB pieces, just lots of them, and it didn't go to sleep. i've uploaded some 250 MB movies to YouTube a couple of months ago, but none recently, so I don't know if it will behave the same as yours or not. i can't remember if I've had a security OS update since I did that.

CA3LE. Yeah, on an iOS device you can share a test result. I was talking about the average results that you see when you hit the "Results" link. On that page there's no Share Results button, there's only the Export button. And in the signature editing screen, the editing options tools aren't available for even inserting a URL. You can save parts of the plot and both the Average and Max speed graphics by selecting the graphic and using the iOS Save Image function. It puts it in the Camera Roll for use elsewhere. If there was an Attach File option in the signature editing screen, you could insert any image from the Camera Roll. On the individual test result, when you pull up the Share This Result, on the iPad you can copy the URL text below the graphic result. You can also save the image to your camera roll to share elsewhere (that has the ability to pull up pictures from an iOS device camera roll) or insert it into documents on the iPad.

You can add pictures to the signature using the full Safari on the Mac, but you can't using Safari on the iPad. On the iPad (in both the full version and mobile view), the signature editing box doesn't include the tool set button to add image URLs. Not a big deal for me as I have a Mac. It's only an issue for those who only have an iPad.

It used to be there....I think. Like the "More Reply Options" button below here where you attach a picture. I used to have pictures of my results in my signature, but they were old and not relevant, so I erased them. Maybe I did it on the Mac and not the iPad.

On an iPad 2 running iOS 6.1.3. I no longer see the full edit option where you can add a picture to my signature. It gives you the restriction on the photo size, but there's no way to attach or upload a picture to one's signature. Also, on the Results page, I don't see the "Share Result" feature. Have these features been removed? I guess the question is: How do I get a picture into my signature? I tried both the Full and Mobile versions.

How can you tell when it's napping? I haven't upgraded anything lately. Just would like to know what to look for if/when I do.

This is a good site to research network hardware. Their charts are fantastic. You can plot models by performance (multiple type performance criteria), you can pick a price per performance plot which is awesome. After you pick a few, go out on the net and research the star ratings. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/bar About 20 months ago I used their site and did what I talked about above. After researching the star ratings, I put a $ per star rating on each. Here's the results....obviously this hardware is more than 20 months old now, so there are surely as good or better choices. I'm just posting this to show the methodology. Update- I just checked the charts and the Nighthawk R7000 that CA3LE mentioned is at the top of their performance chart. It's in the upper right corner of their Price/Performance chart, but hey, usually you get what you pay for. I checked on the star ratings, and depending on what stares/sites you go to, it looks like it meets my 15% criteria too. WAN to LAN price/performance. - Ranked by dollars per star ESR9855G EnGenius Multimedia Enhanced Wireless N Gaming Router with Gigabit $20.50/star. $82 Newegg, 4.5 stars/22reviews on Google, 3. 1-2 star reviews 14%, probably not enough reviews to be meaningful. E3200 Cisco High Performance Dual-Band N Router gigabit $27.25/star $109 minus $30 special Amazon 4 stars/142 reviews, 15 1-2 star reviews 11%, 4.5 stars on Google/485 reviews RT-N56U ASUS Black Diamond Dual-Band Gigabit Wireless-N Router $31/star $124, 4 stars/449 reviews, 82. 1-2 stars 18% Airport Extreme Base Station 5th gen, A1408, MD031LL/A, $170, 4.5 stars/135 reviews, 16. 1-2star 12%, 10 1-star $37.78/star WNDR4500 Netgear. N900 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router $45/star. $180 4 star/160 reviews, 42. 1-2 star. 26% -------------------------------------------------------------------- not ranked in any particular order. Of the ones I picked to evaluate, these I chose to reject as an option Product HD Media Router 2000 DIR-827 gigabit D-Link $142. 3.5 stars/6 reviews amazon, not enough reviews Product N750 Wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router WNDR4000 Company NETGEAR $126. 3.5 stars/168 reviews, 39 1-star Amazon Product Maximum Performance Wireless-N Router Linksys E4200 gigabit Cisco $159 - $30 gift card special, 3.5 stars/385 reviews/100 one -two star reviews Product 300Mbps Wireless N Router with Gigabit Switch. ESR9850 EnGenius $60 amazon. 3.5 stars/22reviews Product N600 wireless Dual Band Gigabit Router. WNDR3700v2 Netgear. $99 Amazon, 3.5 stars/781, 155. 1-star Product N750 DB Wireless Dual-Band N+ Router F9K1103 Belkin $100 Amazon 3stars/129 reviews, 50 1-2star As a rule of thumb, if 15-20% of the reviews on anything are 1-2 stars, I reject it even though there are a lot of positive review because I don't think 15% of the reviewers are clueless. LOL. For a mature product I'll use 15%, for a new product 20% because there were likely firmware updates that fixed the problems of the early reviewers. But I like to stay down near 10% or I start to itch worrying.

CA3LE. And you should also mention that most of the OOKLA based test sites' speed tests won't run on an iOS device because the tests require Flash (the memory and battery hog technology that's not allowed on iOS devices). So kudos for you having iOS compatible testing. And although Speedtest.org now supports iOS/Safari, the results are way off. They even have a disclaimer: "Warning For best testing experience and accuracy, Broadband Speed Checker requires at least version 8 of Flash. Please update your client by clicking here." And when you try the support Contact Us on Speedtest.org, you get: "Not Found. The requested URL /contact/ was not found on this server." Plus you can't choose a server like you can on TestMy. There is an OOKLA Speedtest app for iOS that allows you to pick servers, and the results trend kind of like the results I get here on TestMy, but the UI and the results displays and overall functionality of the app is orders of magnitude less than this site. For iOS device users, nobody else that I've found is even in the same universe as TestMy.

Not sure why the downstream power levels would be what they show (almost nothing). Mine are all from 3.5-4.5 dBmV. Other than that, the other numbers look OK.