SourlandCandy Posted February 4, 2012 CID Share Posted February 4, 2012 Hi. I just ran a test of my comcast cable connection as it seems to be running slower since we added TV to our package this week. Testmy reports: Sat Feb 04 2012 @ 8:41:23 am US 7.7 MB 7.14 Mbps 914 kB/s and my cisco router test reports: 22.25 mbps dowload and 6.47 mbps up Does anyone know what could account for this difference? Thank you. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted February 4, 2012 CID Share Posted February 4, 2012 Hi. I just ran a test of my comcast cable connection as it seems to be running slower since we added TV to our package this week. Testmy reports: Sat Feb 04 2012 @ 8:41:23 am US 7.7 MB 7.14 Mbps 914 kB/s and my cisco router test reports: 22.25 mbps dowload and 6.47 mbps up Does anyone know what could account for this difference? Thank you. Welcome! First, there can be overhead. Second, how is the cisco router testing? Where is it testing to? I can also almost guarantee you that it's not testing through your browser. You may be in your browser but it's not actually using your browser. There is most likely a 3rd party application handling the test. Like Macromedia Flash or Sun Java... right? Tests that run that way are a poor judge of your browser... and as we've found many other issues as well. Other speed tests seem to not notice a problem unless it's on the Providers end. TestMy takes everything into account and is the only Internet speed test online that works this way. There is no layer between the test and your browser. TestMy's servers are also unbiasedly placed on the backbone of the Internet. I believe this makes for a more accurate depiction of your connection speed. Try testing with one of the mirrors, use these buttons on the speed test pages. Testing with the mirrors can help you see if you're having a routing issue to the main server. ... the results you get here can't be compared to results you get with any other speed test. Read Why Do My Results Differ From Speedtest.net? for a little more insight. That information applies to any Ookla speed test... but if they have to adjust I assume any flash speed test has to. Besides the adjustments they admit they make, as I said before... there's allot that they simply can't test because of the protocol they've chosen to use. ... things are different here. ...please help me by telling your friends about TestMy.net - this spreads by word-of-mouth only. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SourlandCandy Posted February 4, 2012 Author CID Share Posted February 4, 2012 Hi. Here is a link to a description of the speed test offered on my router software: http://www6.nohold.net/Cisco2/ukp.aspx?pid=80&app=vw&vw=1&login=1&json=1&docid=6dc95c0430cd4792acd57259a17839d0_KBXXX_EN_v1.xml Does that shed any light on why the results btwn test my are so dfft? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SourlandCandy Posted February 4, 2012 Author CID Share Posted February 4, 2012 More info! I tried the mirror test which looks better: :::.. Download Test Results ..::: Download Connection:: 14031 Kbps or 13.7 Mbps Download Test Size:: 6 MB or 6144 kB or 6291456 bytes Download Speed:: 1754 kB/s or 1.7 MB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:12.2 Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/bB4W1ZC Test Time:: 2012-02-04 22:57:26 Local Time 1MB Download in 0.58 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~10 Minutes - 251X faster than 56K This test of exactly 6144 kB took 3.503 seconds to complete Running at 109% of hosts average (Comcast Cable) User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0 [!] Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CA3LE Posted February 5, 2012 CID Share Posted February 5, 2012 Hi. Here is a link to a description of the speed test offered on my router software: http://www6.nohold.n...KBXXX_EN_v1.xml Does that shed any light on why the results btwn test my are so dfft? Welcome samanthar! First, that test in your router is flash based. Please read >> https://testmy.net/ip...m-speedtestnet/ -- the same should be true for any test that uses flash protocol. More info! I tried the mirror test which looks better: :::.. Download Test Results ..::: Download Connection:: 14031 Kbps or 13.7 Mbps Download Test Size:: 6 MB or 6144 kB or 6291456 bytes Download Speed:: 1754 kB/s or 1.7 MB/s Tested At:: http://TestMy.net version:12.2 Validation Link:: https://testmy.net/db/bB4W1ZC Test Time:: 2012-02-04 22:57:26 Local Time 1MB Download in 0.58 Seconds - 1GB Download in ~10 Minutes - 251X faster than 56K This test of exactly 6144 kB took 3.503 seconds to complete Running at 109% of hosts average (Comcast Cable) User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Macintosh; Intel Mac OS X 10.6; rv:10.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/10.0 [!] If your results vary between mirrors you may have an isolated routing issue that you may want to bring up with your provider. Keep visiting! SourlandCandy 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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