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Hi from the suburbs of Cincinnati.. That's the same modem change I plan on making soon.

Yes. Absolutely it works. I use a Mac with Safari, and an iPad and iPhone with iOS Safari. They both work fine.

Holy crap tommie? that's bad

Your upload speeds are what my download speeds are.

I don't think you need to automatically detect if a phone is on Wifi or 3G or whatever. Just change/add the identifiers in the pop-up list. iPhone Detected (Wifi) iPhone Detected (cellular) iPad Detected (Wifi) iPad Detected (cellular) We can pick the one we want to store data In. They wouldn't necessarily have to be iPhones and iPads. They could just be called phones and tablets. We can choose the identifier before running the tests. That way we can have separate data files for 3G and Wifi. And it wouldn't take a lot of effort on your part trying to identify it automatically. When I look back at my iPhone history speed tests, I don't get a representative average because the Wifi and 3G test data is all together. Most of the time I'm testing on my iPhone I'm on wifi because 3G is so pathetic ( I only use it when I absolutely have to-data limits, poor performance) and I have no data limits on wifi.

Here's the SmallNetBuilder charts. http://www.smallnetbuilder.com/lanwan/router-charts/view Using WAN to LAN performance as the comparison factor, Hit the price/performance button. Then pick your price range. And pick some of the models at the top of the chart for performance. Then you can go read their reviews - which are very detailed. These guys are very knowledgeable reviewers. Then go see what the public thinks of them with the star ratings.

CA3LE. Is there a way your site can recognize whether a phone is on WiFi or on a cellular network? Probably easier for us to do it manually - Maybe you could add some labels like iPhone Detected (cellular) and iPhone Detected (WiFi). My iPhone results history is a mix of 3G and Wifi. My iPad is Wifi only, but some have cellular capability, so maybe extra labels for them too.

There's a site called SmallNetBuilder that has very good technical reviews by knowledgeable people. This is some research I did about a year ago. I look for products that have less than 20% of their reviews at 1 or 2 stars out of 5. Anything more than that is a red flag to me that something is wrong. Then I calculate a price per performance ratio in $ per star which is an indicator of how much I'm paying for quality. WAN to LAN price/performance - these were the routers with the better price per performance ratio as rated on SmallNetBuilder's site. In order of $/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 Product HD Media Router 2000 DIR-827 gigabit D-Link $142. 3.5 stars/6 reviews amazon 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 They not only have good reviews on SmallNetBuilder, but they have some great performance plots of a lot of products. I used their price/performance plots to select routers to go assess for price and user experience/quality (star ratings). There's likely new ones on the plots since a year ago besides the ones I looked at above. Note that the LinkSys E4200 did appear to have some issues, as 100 of the 385 reviews were 1-2 stars. However, that was a year ago, and maybe they've released some firmware updates that fixed their issues. Note that the Cisco E3200 though was rated very good, and one of the best buys at the time. So go figure. I ended up buying the Apple AirPort Extreme which is a great value. People always bad mouth it for being expensive, but it looks very competitive when you start assessing the user experience and quality ratings....one of the top 4 after I got done looking at all of those above. I do have 2 Macs, 2 iPhones, and 2 iPads in the house, so I was really just trying to assure myself that it was worth the investment. It has worked flawlessly for a year. The other ones at the top would likely be very good choices as well, excepting maybe the first one (EnGenius) because at the time it really didn't have enough reviews to be relevant-it likely has a lot more reviews by now.

Welcome from SW Ohio in the US joxxer.

Hi Chang. Welcome from SW Ohio....where it's still very cold.

If you tell them you want to use your own modem, you can return their modem and they should drop the modem rental fee. On their website, you can probably find a list of modems approved for use with their system. You can compare reviews on them, or post on TestMy and ask other Comcast users which ones they have and what their experience is. If the laptop really is wireless G, when you're not using it, either turn the laptop off or turn that compute t's wireless off, and you should see the wireless N speeds on the other computer.

Welcome from SW Ohio

That's all very true. What you should do is during the periods tat it's slowed down, call the ISP support and tell them what's happening. And when they haven't fixed the problem, call them again. And keep doing that until they elevate the problem and upgrade the system you are on. I you know other people that are experiencing a similar problem with that ISP, urge them to call in the problem too. The ISP will try to get by with as many people as possible on one "channel" I'll call it. And until,people start to complain about service slow down, they think everything is running fine for everybody

Welcome from SW Ohio

It's hard to get enough power from the solar to overcome the ambient temperature without having gigantic solar panels, plus solar panels are extremely expensive, as are the air conditioners. The best solution would be small cooling systems like they have in computers. But the cooling fluid reservoir would have to be buried in the ground, deep enough to be where it's 55 deg F all year. But then you'd need pumps to get the cooling fluid from down there, through some cooling jacket/radiator in the box where the electronics are. The simplest solution is to use parts rated from -40C to 85C, which cost more than the typical consumer electronic parts that are 0C to 70C rated. It's still tough to make it reliable though even with the better parts, as the changing temperature every day temperature cycles all the solder joints, and eventually they fail mechanically

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Yeah. That's frustrating. I've had several occasion over the last 10 years where the Time Warner amps out at the street were out of calibration. It took a few calls to them but they did finally send techs out and solved the problem each time. Twice the signals were too low, and once they were too high. Temperatures outside play havoc with the equipment. I'm actually amazed that they work and last as long as they do. I designed electronics for jet engines before I retired. We had to make the stuff work from -65 F to over 180 F cooling fuel and over 250 F air. It takes pretty expensive hardware to do even the temperature extremes that the ISPs see in their boxes in the heat of summer and the cold of winter.

As an electrical engineer and not a communications expert, generally, when signals degrade, the source driver has degraded and can't properly drive the load impedance. for transmission lines the impedance is capacitance and the farther along the wires you go, the more capacitance is presented to the driver. If the load nodes are terminated properly (which in this case I'd assume they were) the characteristic impedance of the transmission line presents a low resistive impedance and the capacitance of the wires is damped out. The source driver may be degraded enough that it can't drive the low impedance load. It's not bad enough that it's not working, but not working well enough to provide the right signal wave shape, amplitude, timing, and the result is distortion and low signal to noise ratio. There is another possibility that the driver amplitude is out of calibration on the high side. If the signal is too big, it can also cause distortion and data loss. Have your ISP send a tech out to measure the signal integrity coming out of your house. If you're having consistent problems, the ISP should be able to identify them - many times remotely from their facility. If you call enough times, they should elevate the issue, and make sure their equip,net is operating normally. They should send a real technician out to verify the operation of their gear. And if your Internet connection isn't working properly, they should do that at their expense if there's reason to believe that their hardware is at fault.

Welcome from SW Ohio

In the movie Jerry Maguire, we earned that "the human head weighs 8 pounds". 8 lb is 3.63 kilograms. The speed of light is 3 x 10^8 meters per second. If my head were converted to energy, and Energy = mass times the speed of light squared, my head has the the mass energy of 3.267 x 10^17 Joules. If my head was converted into energy at the same rate as a thermonuclear device, then my head would release the energy of a 78 megaton bomb. The largest one ever detonated was about 100 megaton. The 78 megaton energy release would give off 78,000 trillion calories of heat. The picture above shows what I would look like for the first few nanoseconds.

I'm not sure how much of the latency you'd measure would be attributable to the ISP if you're going through a lot of different nodes from point A to point B. Unless the ISP offered some more direct high speed pipeline to some servers you would typically communicate with, I don't quite see how they can charge a premium for what they don't control. But I'm in no way an expert on this stuff.

The only issue with that model MBP was the thermal design. Once the heat sink grease dries out a little it separates the processor from the frame/heat sink. And you have to completely disassemble the thing to get underneath inside to repair it. I haven't yet done that and re heat sink greased it. I just cleaned it, tightened all the screws and put a fan controller in it. When it has heavy continuous processing, you can watch the CPU temperature rise. I put a fan speed control app in it and boosted the idle fan speed to 3000 rpm at 120 deg F and set the max fan speed to reach max rpm at a lower temperature Thatbthe stock settings. If it runs continuously (like a long backup) it really gets hot and the fans at 6000 rpm are whooshing pretty good. Running a 25 MB download test file 5 times in a row actually raises the temperature about 40 deg F and the fans crank up to about 5000 rpm. Without the fan and temperature control it couldn't make it through the initial Time Machine backup of a new 500 GB hard drive. With it, it barely made it through. It does OK with the smaller incremental backups.

I ran Snow Leopard 10.6.8 until early in 2012 on my mid-2010 iMac and never experienced that problem. However, my ISP plan at Time Warner Cincinnati at that time only had 10 Mbps up and 1 Mbps down, and I typically got around 8 Mbps. I was running it wired ethernet. I don't know what the update history was after early 2012 for Snow Leopard and whether yours is more or less up to date than mine was at the time. With my slower service, I don't know if I would have ever seen the kind of slowdown you're experiencing. But at my typical speeds I didn't ever see slow speeds when re-testing right away. My wife's 2006 MacBook Pro is running 10.6.8 but wireless through an AirPort Extreme Base Station. I've never seen the problem you're describing on hers. Curiously, that old MBP consistently measures the fastest speeds of any machine in the house, including my 2010 iMac (wired gigabit ethernet), and her 2 year old Dell work laptop (thru same Airport Rxtreme).

Amazing. Your iPhone 5 is as fast on Verizon LTE as my iPhone 4 is on WiFi

Hi from SW Ohio