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  1. 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
  2. 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
  3. 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.
  4. 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.
  5. 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.
  6. 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.
  7. 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.
  8. 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).
  9. That is pretty amazing. I only have an iPhone 4 and an iPad 2. My download speeds avg about 12 Mbps on the phone, and about 14 on the iPad. Here's an iPhone test from a minute ago :::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..::: Download Connection Speed:: 13144 Kbps or 13.1 Mbps Download Speed Test Size:: 25 MB or 25600 kB or 26214400 bytes Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1643 kB/s or 1.6 MB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13 Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/48wrZUl TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 8.67 Mbps | Middle Avg 13.01 Mbps | Max 17.61 Mbps TiP Data Points:: 8.67 Mbps, 11.72 Mbps, 15.15 Mbps, 13.38 Mbps, 12.94 Mbps, 15.43 Mbps, 11.82 Mbps, 11.55 Mbps, 17.59 Mbps, 13.83 Mbps, 10.09 Mbps, 11.64 Mbps, 13.77 Mbps, 13.78 Mbps, 15.42 Mbps, 16.03 Mbps, 17.61 Mbps, 12.43 Mbps More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/Pgoodwin1 https://testmy.net/compID/6583986553 Test Time:: 2013-03-03 17:46:23 Local Time Location:: Fairfield, OH US >> Destination:: Dallas, TX US 1MB Download in 0.62 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~11 Minutes - 235X faster than 56K This test of exactly 25600 kB took 15.967 seconds to complete Running at 91% of hosts average (Road Runner) User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (iPhone; CPU iPhone OS 6_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10B146 Safari/8536.25 [!]
  10. Kind of amazing that you can use a tablet and get speeds 500 times what we used to get on the fastest home computers not all that long ago. I can't say as I really miss the singing gurgling RS232 modem sounds. Half the time, that sound resulted in a no-connection. Haha And Biggles: China probably owns 1/2 of Dallas.
  11. Great! :::.. Download Speed Test Result Details ..::: Download Connection Speed:: 15303 Kbps or 15.3 Mbps Download Speed Test Size:: 25 MB or 25600 kB or 26214400 bytes Download Binary File Transfer Speed:: 1913 kB/s or 1.9 MB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net Version 13 Validation:: https://testmy.net/db/FbXRla5 TiP Measurement Summary:: Min 13.13 Mbps | Middle Avg 13.97 Mbps | Max 18.17 Mbps TiP Data Points:: 14.14 Mbps, 14.8 Mbps, 17.32 Mbps, 18.17 Mbps, 16.12 Mbps, 13.13 Mbps, 14.84 Mbps, 17.39 Mbps, 15.1 Mbps More Stats:: https://testmy.net/quickstats/Pgoodwin1 https://testmy.net/compID/6583986553 Test Time:: 2013-03-03 13:50:04 Local Time Location:: Fairfield, OH US >> Destination:: Dallas, TX US 1MB Download in 0.54 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~9 Minutes - 273X faster than 56K This test of exactly 25600 kB took 13.715 seconds to complete Running at 106% of hosts average (Road Runner) User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (iPad; CPU OS 6_1_2 like Mac OS X) AppleWebKit/536.26 (KHTML, like Gecko) Version/6.0 Mobile/10B146 Safari/8536.25 [!] That was on an iPad with Time Warner's latest 15 Mbps down/ 1 Mbps up service upgrade as of January this year. The variation in the TiP data points is about what I would expect. With this ISP I see quite a bit of variation depending on prime time vs non-prime time. My "normal" comdition extremes are about 8 to 18 Mbps average download speeds depending on time of day, with about 15 Mbps being my new long term average. It was only 8 under their old service last year. This is very useful stuff CA3LE. Thanks
  12. I'm only semi-skilled here. What does TiP stand for? And why are the TiP measurements different from the Download Connection Speed?
  13. Are all your and your parent's computers and the ps3 on WiFi or are some connected via Ethernet?
  14. On the TestMy Home page, read all of the info on the tabs (mid page) marked: Internet Speed Test, Information, What Males TMN Different, and Speed Test Principals. In short, all,of the test tools that you've likely used to date are inaccurate. The ISPs use them because they have been fine tuned to show the ISP performance to be some high number, even when the real performance is much less than those tools show. If you want to know what your real world up/sown speeds are in a much more representative environment, TMN is what you should use. Your speeds however are significantly lower than than what their plan limits are advertised to be indicating to me that you may have a problem. My history with Time Warner in the past has been that I register download speeds here that were 1/3 to 1/2 or so of the speeds registered on their speed measuring tools. Upload speeds historically were about 80% of what their tools showed. Lately, since they upgraded their service, I'm showing right at their "guaranteed" download on average. Upload speeds still 80%. Also historically, their tools showed me to be getting 2 to 2.5 times their "guaranteed" speeds. I don't know how the ISPs get away with the use of these tools. It would seem a class action suit should be filed, but since virtually all the ISPs use the ookla Flash based tools or something similar, the suit would be suing the world, and would likely be hard to get any significant damages, so nobody sues. The fact that your download speed though is only 1/6 of your 50 Mbps plan claim, it seems like there's some sort of problem. Can you hardwire right to your cable modem and tell us what you get? There are times though when I consistently get about 1/2 Time Warner's 15 Mbps "guaranteed" min. Normally this occurs during the day, and often later at night, speeds are up again.
  15. We welcome angels. Hi from DW Ohio Make tha SW Ohio
  16. My speed limitation is with my ISP. My iPad TMN speed measurements are about the same on the iPad as they are on the iMac which is a wired Ethernet thru my AirPort Extreme, gigabit switch to my router which is 10/100. The modem I have is a Motorola SurfBoard DOCISS 2 and my ISP Time Warner's RoadRunner is a 15 Mbps down/1 Mbps up turbo service....cheap. The iPad gives me speeds right at the ISP's 15 Mbps rating, sometimes higher. The iMac is maybe 10-15% faster usually. So my RoadRunner package limits my speed. The TMN website acts really well on the iPad Safari. I don't do much measuring on my iPhone 4, because with the iPad, I don't do much on the web with the phone because of all the re-sizing you have to do to read stuff. the iPad is way better.
  17. robd53....hi from SW Ohio in the US. CA3LE speaketh the truth. Those other sites give results that are not the truth. The value in the tests here are that when there is a problem or bottleneck, it shows in the results. Start collecting test data to baseline your numbers here when your equipment is operating normally. If you do most of your communicating with sites in Europe, use the Amsterdam server he suggests. If it's here in the states, use the Dallas one. Either way, once you establish what your "normal" results are, you can use variation from that average to determine your connection quality. It's a more real world result, and valuable because of that fact. The only time I got any useful results from the ISP's ookla type sites was when the ISP's equipment had actually failed so bad intermittently that my connection speeds on their site showed almost zero. On another occasion, when my ISP's equipment had a signal out of range hi, the quality of their signal was degraded to the point where TestMy's speed tests indicated a problem, while the ISP's flash-ookla system showed the meter pegged into the green.
  18. Pgoodwin1

    Hello!

    And according to 3 emails I received this week, I have inherited somewhere in the neighborhood of $40 million. LOL - Here's one of them I got - I copied the whole email just to show how ridiculous it is: On Feb 16, 2013, at 2:32 PM, TERRI BRADSON <[email protected]> wrote: U.S Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)U.S Treasury Department's 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20220 Attention Beneficiary A power of attorney was forwarded to our office this morning by two gentle men, one of them is an American national and he is MR DAVID DEANE by name while the other person is MR. JACK MORGAN by name a CANADIAN national. This gentlemen claimed to be your representative, and this power of attorney stated that you are died, they brought an account to replace your information*s in other to claim your fund of $12.5 Million Usd which it is right now lying DORMANT and UNCLAIMED, below is the new account they have submitted: BANK.-HSBC CANADA QUEZON AVE. DELTA BRANCH QUEZON CITY, CANADA ACCOUNT NO. 2984-0008-66 SWIFT CODE. BOPIPHMM Be further informed that this power of attorney also stated that you suffered and died of an accident with your wife and children. You are therefore given 24hrs to confirm the truth in this information, If you are still alive, You are to contact us back immediately, Because we work 24 hrs just to ensure that we monitor all the activities going on in regards to the transfer of beneficiaries inheritance and contract payment. Please you are hereby advice to reconfirm the below information to this honorable office for confirmation to help us serve you better. Your Full Name................. Your Country Address........... Your Home Address.............. Occupation..................... Tele Or Cell Phone.............. A Copy Of Your ID............... You are to call this office immediately for clarifications on this matter as we shall be available 24 hrs to speak with you and give you the necessary guidelines on how to ensure that your payment is wired to you immediately. Just also be informed that any further delay from your side could be dangerous, as we would not be held responsible of wrong payment. Thank you. Ms. Terri Bradson U.S Treasury Department's Office of Foreign Assets Control (OFAC)U.S Treasury Department's 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, DC 20220 They can't even speak and type English hahaha
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