markn455

Fantastic this will help a lot. I want the speed test to route over my Satellite provider and not my DSL. This will work great for me. I just need to build the routes and I am all set.

Thanks again,

Mark

I have multiple service providers and want to setup my routing to route TestMy.net activity to go out on a specific port on the firewall. How can I find out the IP ranges used by testmy for the speed tests?

Thanks,

Mark

Hi,
I just registered with testmy.net so I can stay informed and keep up to date on my hobby and professional interest. Over the years I have experienced numerous internet connectivity challenges. We are out in the rural area of North Georgia with no access to cable and all but one DSL provider. We are subscribing to 2x 5Mbps DSL lines in hopes of getting a little "HA". Our phone company actually provides 10 Mbps are reasonable prices. However, we are so far from the POP that the fastest connection they could get was 5 Mbps. We backed the speed down to the 5 Mbps packages on two phone lines. There is so much noise or distance that we can only get about 1.5 - 3.0 and sometimes close to ZERO.

Not too long ago some thieves from somewhere outside the country went down the road and pulled one end of the phone cable out of the ground, tied it to their truck, and pulled about 3 to 4 sections of cable out of the ground. This took the phone company close to a week to get service restored in the area. Whopee!

Recently I ran across ViaSat's announcement of the "high speed" satellite internet service providing 10.5 Mbps of download. Since I am not a gamer I didn't care much about the 600-700 ms of latency your experience with typical geostationary satellite connections. So, I sighed up and here I am trying to keep ViaSat's Excede working. While this is WAY BETTER than the DSL out here in the woods, it does not work as well as claimed. The speed is all over the board, you have to reboot the modem on a regular basis. The good folks are WildBlue are working with me in an attempt to get the service working close to advertised.

So, here we are, a new kid out in the WildBlue yonder hoping that some day, somehow, we can get blazing fast connectivity like the city boys get.


Mark
FarPointe, GA