I Think Blocks should be Larger

[nanobot]

One of the things I notice with TMN is the Beta test still seems to finish very quickly on my connection, compared to the Speedtest.net alternative. I think the blocks should scale up to a total of 400MB or 500MB, to keep the connection alive longer.

 

Here's a graph of Speedtest.net on my 1-Gig Fiber

 

And here are two different graphs of TMN on the same fiber

 

The duration is substantially shorter, and I think that may be skewing results a little. Instead of adding more blocks for that larger test size (200 is sufficient, IMHO), can we scale them up to 2MB or 2.5MB blocks? My DL/UL is only sustained, even on the 200MB test sizes, for 1-2 seconds, which historically TMN has called 'insufficient' to accurately gauge a connection.

 

769.6 Mbps [96.2 MB/s] | Downloaded 200 MB in 2.08 seconds
Pre-Test: 256.8 Mbps [32.1 MB/s] | Downloaded 40 MB in 1.25 seconds
Download Graph: [149.6,200,232,304,296,304,664,640,680,736,848,896]
760 Mbps [95 MB/s] | Uploaded 200 MB in 2.11 seconds
Pre-Test: 511.2 Mbps [63.9 MB/s] | Uploaded 60 MB in 0.94 seconds
Upload Graph: [320,416,464,592,584,576,728,768,808,832,824,784]
Test Latency 56 ms Avg - 46 ms Min
Latency Graph: [162,48,47,47,47,48,47,47,47,106,52,47,48,48,47,48,46,47,48,47,62,54,46]
Locale: dallas.testmy.net
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64 AppleWebKit/537.36 KHTML, like Gecko Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/117.0.2045.31
Graph & Validate: https://testmy.net/x/tmn?resultID=n1Sb-TQbj

 

[nanobot]

Now that I type this, wonder if having a "stress test" with a mixture of block sizes would be handy, would simulate what computers / networks actually do. Some are doing really small data-loads and some are doing large data-loads.

 

Just a thought.

[CA3LE]

Click [Customize] then select 500 MB max. 

 

I may change the default after we get going.

[nanobot]

Very cool!

 

770.4 Mbps [96.3 MB/s] | Downloaded 500 MB in 5.19 seconds
Pre-Test: 302.4 Mbps [37.8 MB/s] | Downloaded 18 MB in 0.48 seconds
Download Graph: [72,120.8,169.6,560,800,816,600,680,704,808,808,848]
752.8 Mbps [94.1 MB/s] | Uploaded 500 MB in 5.31 seconds
Pre-Test: 156 Mbps [19.5 MB/s] | Uploaded 18 MB in 0.92 seconds
Upload Graph: [113.6,135.2,140,164.8,164.8,177.6,624,752,784,896,864,800]
Test Latency 72 ms Avg - 46 ms Min
Latency Graph: [154,47,47,53,56,62,61,62,52,47,46,47,47,47,74,55,47,351,79,76,61,63,47,48]
Locale: dallas.testmy.net
Altered Test Settings - Target Time: 7 sec || Start Size: 900 kB || Max Size: 500 MB || Linear Boost: ON
User Agent: Mozilla/5.0 Windows NT 10.0; Win64; x64 AppleWebKit/537.36 KHTML, like Gecko Chrome/117.0.0.0 Safari/537.36 Edg/117.0.2045.31
Graph & Validate: https://testmy.net/x/tmn?resultID=2nE3F8Lp3

 

[xs1]

On 9/19/2023 at 2:16 PM, CA3LE said:

Click [Customize] then select 500 MB max. 

 

I may change the default after we get going.

 

  That's where the 500 mb went