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For reference, here's some fairly typical performance with TWC (Cincinnati). Dallas server, not multithreaded TIP Summaries 07/27/13 ~ 7:30 PM. 15 MB download test, Dallas server, not a multi thread test Minimum :: 7.07 Mbps | Middle :: 14.79 Mbps | Maximum :: 25.86 Mbps Minimum :: 5.73 Mbps | Middle :: 14.38 Mbps | Maximum :: 24.97 Mbps Minimum :: 6.88 Mbps | Middle :: 16.58 Mbps | Maximum :: 27.16 Mbps Variations on all three runs were 65-70% - pretty typical for my TWC during prime time evening hours. In off hours, there is a little less variation with averages in 14-16 Mbps range. But TWC has always had a lot of variation. I can usually tell by how slow or fast Netflix or Amazon Prime Instant video downloads/starts shows. My average results for those three runs above: Sat Jul 27 2013 @ 7:32:07 pm 25 MB 14.47 Mbps 1.81 MB/s Sat Jul 27 2013 @ 7:31:03 pm 25 MB 12.7 Mbps 1.59 MB/s Sat Jul 27 2013 @ 7:28:33 pm 25 MB 13.77 Mbps 1.72 MB/s

I'm on TWC Cincinnati. The first of the year they upgraded their services. I'm on the turbo 15 Mbps down, 1 Mbps up plan. Since the first of the year, I've had pretty consistent results testing here showing that they are meeting the 15 Mbps down. I get about 0.8 Mbps up speeds measured here. Prior to the first of the year upgrade, I was only getting about 8 Mbps down and the same 0.8 up speed I got prior to the upgrade. Their old plan said up to 10 Mbps, and I very rarely ever got 10 except for an occasional burst. The newer service is consistently right around the 15 Mbps speed they advertise. This upgrade was likely only for the TWC Cincinnati area though. Your results may be worse if the equipment and service they're providing you is like the older equipment was here. They didn't change my cable modem, only the service on their stuff outside my house.

Starting out as a pretty good day for speeds. A stock iPad 2. Time Warner Cincinnati. They upgraded their basic service (with Turbo) the first of this year from 10 to 15 Mbps min. It's been pretty solid all year Cable modem is a Motorola SurfBoard SB5101 Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station

eBay is probably your best bet. But before you shop for one, download Mactracker - it's available for Windows as well,as for Macs. It'll give you detailed info on every Mac model going back to the beginning of the Macs (the 128K model). It's a great tool. Don't buy anything older than those machines having at least an i3 Intel processor. The Core 2 Duo machines will run the latest software but they're getting pretty old, and will be obsolete much sooner.

Yes. As long as electronics are kept cool, they can run a long long time. Some of the newer modems even de-power their ports to save energy, so at night when you're not accessing the LAN ports, the modem is basically just idling and not dissipating much power. Not sure if yours has the energy saver stuff in it, but even if it doesn't, during long periods of doing little work, the thing will have no problem running all night, as long as it's in an area that allows what little heat they generate to rise above it and away from it. As long as there's reasonable air space around it and the air isn't hot, those things should last.

I have an Apple AirPort Extreme Base Station wireless router and it has the USB port on it. The Mac OS recognized it right away, and I don't know why Windows wouldn't either in this day and age. It's pretty handy. I bought a 2 TB and partitioned it into 2 x 1 TB drives, one for me, and one for the wife. Both partitions showed up fine.

Yeah. It's amazing how easy I got used to life on the Internet without Flash - I use an iPad for almost all my web browsing. If a site tells me I need Flash, I just move on, life's to short to worry about it. And there are plenty of good sites that don't require it; more all the time. There's so many places to find what you need, like you said, you just pass that one up. I've gotten to where if I really need to be on a site with Flash, I use my Mac remotely from the iPad with Splashtop Streamer. But it's not very often I even bother.

That ad stuff doesn't really bother me if they are fixed ads in dedicated space that isn't interfering with or taking away excessive space on a page. The annoying pop-ups that come back even after you hit the close box and hover over what you're looking at drive me nuts. And if you disable pop-ups, too many things break that you need pop-ups for. And you're welcome

I thought maybe I could have found that UA string in Apple's System Profiler somewhere but I gave up after looking for a while and used that website

And it only took literally 10s of minutes for those ads to start appearing. Oh well. At least if it's being tailored to what I looked at it's not some BS I don't care about. So if I have to be bombarded with ads, at least they're something I'm interested in.

Speaking of who sees what. Tailored ads base on what products I've recently searched for in Google is getting obscenely quick. I researched an audio mixer the other day, and every day since, 1/2 the sites I go to have an ad on it with the same model.

Before you sent me the link to that website, I searched the iMac for "com.Apple.Safari". And for "UserAgent" and it didn't tell me where they were. I know they're in a library somewhere.

Photo of UA query on my iMac You were daring, going to 10.8.4 already. Haha

Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10_8_3) AppleWebKit/536.29.13 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0.4 Safari/536.29.13 I think there's one newer version of Safari available but I haven't done a software update to 10.8.4 yet which it's part of.

Where would I get it?

Hi dicoy, from an electronics engineer (sort of/almost - I just retired 3 years ago, but still work at it 1 day a week....jet engine controls. Yes. With a little work, we probably could make the phones do all that stuff.

I too have an older MacBook Pro (2006) with the Core Duo processor. Like CA3LE said, there's more to changing the processor than just putting that device in, and de soldering the old one and soldering in a new one would likely trash the board. I'm curious about your model. According to Mactracker, the 2007 MacBooks were 64-bit machines. The late 2006 MB was the first with the Core 2 Duo 64-bit processor. So if yours is really a Core Duo, it's a 2006, it's 32-bit, and not sure, but it likely has 2 MB RAM or less. It's possible that it would run older Windows versions like XP or Win7 32 bit. But with only 2 MB of RAM your performance may be limited, as Windows requires a lot of RAM to run well. Apple has Boot Camp which requires rebooting the Mac but if you just need some PC-only software that doesn't require a lot of resources, it might work. There are older versions of Parallels available allowing simultaneous Windows and Mac OS, but again with only 2 MB RAM your performance might not be great. Also, the hard drives in those older machines weren't very big 80-120 GB, and if the hard drive is almost full performance will suffer. You can upgrade the HDD though. I put a 500 GB 2.5 in drive in my wife's 2006 MacBook Pro and it breathed a lot of life into it (along with some more RAM). I also think the MacBook didn't have a separate graphics card, so any software that is graphically intensive running on Windows would probably not be too great either. I have zero experience though running Boot Camp or Parallels on any Mac, so I'm not sure exactly what can and can't be done here. There's a ton of discussions out there on the Internet about running Boot Camp or Parallels. If you just need to run a few simple PC-only programs, it might be worth investigating further. You can get older versions or Parallels and Windows that will run on a 32-bit Mac. If you need Windows for some PC-only 64 bit games though, getting a newer machine would be a must. Note. My wife's 2006 MacBook Pro can't upgrade past Mac OS 10.6.8, but that's not as big a bummer (yet) as you'd think. Aside from a few nice aspects of the newer Mac OSs, 10.6.8 is one of the best operating systems ever developed. Things will get worse as 64-bit only software takes over. But the only real bummer for us so far is that TurboTax abandoned the 32-bit machines on the Mac (but not on the PCs...grrrrrrrr). Ironically though, TurboTax was available on the iPad, but that company developed that software on the Mac, then dumped on them. Still, not being able to run some of the latest Mac software like iTunes 11 was not a bummer at all. I tried iTunes 11 on my 2010 iMac and went back to 10.7 as they eliminated multiple windows in iTunes 11, which was a huge misstep. Plus when I use the latest Mac OS 10.8 on the iMac, I make it look just like OS 10.6.8. The only things that the newer OS offers (for me at least) is better iCloud integration with Notes, Reminders, and Photostreaming. So soldiering on with the 2006 32 bit MacBook Pro is still going well. With the extra RAM and bigger HDD, it's still pretty quick, it has wireless 802.11 n, and is rock stable. After 7 years, it's performing better than any other computer that I've ever owned at age 7 by quite a large margin. I don't plan on retiring it any time soon. It still runs Web based games fine, and the grand kids use it all the time when they're here. Your old MacBook would benefit from the same RAM and HDD upgrade as I did (not expensive), and that machine will continue giving you good use for quite a while. But again, if you're after graphic intensive gaming on PC-only games, a new machine would be the way to go.

That last big number is 394,573,089,701,000,000,000,000,000,000,000,000 times bigger than Avogardo's Number 6.022E23 which is the number of molecules in a mole of a substance. So yes, that is a lot of combinations. Oh. And I forgot: 111,111,111 x 111,111,111 = 12345678987654321

The numbers shown in my signature are with Time Warner's 15 Mbps up, 1 Mbps down plan. The iMac numbers are on Ethernet, the iMac numbers are using wireless from my garage, through walls and cabinets and at least 30 ft from the AirPort Extreme Base Station wireless N. based on your high numbers on the SpeedTest site, at least on the surface it appears your equipment is capable. As I said, after seeing results on a closer TestMy server using standard testing, we can assess this better.

And the OOKLA based SpeedTest numbers are not indicative of true Internet performance. Read on the TestMy Home Page, select the tab "What Makes TMN Different". Your SpeedTest pics show that you were connected to a local server 50 mi away, and as TriRan mentioned, the TestMy results were obtained using "Coast To Coast". Pick a TestMy server close to you. Any of the problems mentioned above by RTB are possible, but re-run with a closer TestMy server and post the Ethernet and wireless results. You can expect results on TestMy that are lower than what the OOKLA based SpeedTests will show because TestMy's speed tests are more indicative of what real Internet browsing performance really is. Once we see some results with the closer server, we can assess this a little better.

I have TWC's basic Internet service 15 Mbpsdown, 1 Mbps up. I can stream HD off Netflix OK. My speeds on TestMy.net are pretty close to their advertised minimums. I'm with Time Warner Cincinnati. Their current service here is better than it used to be. In the past the service was 10 M down and 1 M up. It was very up and down too. I used to average about 8 Mbps down and 0.8, and it would vary from test to test by 50% and sometimes more. Since they upgraded at the beginning of the year to the 15 Mbps, it's more consistent, but is still typically all over the place. However, even under their older service I could stream HD video. BUT! I use wire Ethernet to my streaming devices. I have a good wireless system Apple's Extreme Base Station, but wired Ethernet is much better for streaming. I have 2 LG Blueray streamers and a Roku (top model with Ethernet) and they do stream HD video fine. Not sure if you're wireless or not, but if you are, try hard wiring it. I did have a couple of periods in the past where the TWC equipment went out of calibration. Once it had a signal that was too high in amplitude. They didn't get that one fixed until they sent a real Tech out to check it out. Another time they had erratic operation with intermittent signal loss. They didn't resolve that one until a Tech came out to the house. So keep calling in your problem. Once you've called a couple of times, they will send someone out to check out their gear both inside and outside the house. And their Speed Test is worthless. It'll say things are good even with intermittent operation. So keep pressing home the point that you're not able to stream HD. When the tech comes, he'll have an instrument that will show him what the datastream is doing. And talking to their help people about their inaccurate speed test is like talking to a cement block.

What's a command line? Haha. I haven't used used it since running a VT100 terminal emulator on a Mac IICi in the early 90s, to access a MicroVax and an IBM 370 at GE. I take that back, I used the Terminal app on my iMac a while back to try something I saw posted in another discussion forum. The first programming I ever did was on an HP9825, with a single line display. HP's HPL language. OMG.... p(p1,p3,p4(p2,p5)). We used them at GE to control some of the first IEE-488 automated instruments that tested our electronic controls for jet engines. Software QA was not too good in the early days. You just took a Sharpie, and wrote on the tape cartridge or big floppy disk "this is the latest version" ...HAHAHAHA Here's an HP9825: http://hpmuseum.net/display_item.php?hw=171

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