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or tmn is the only accurate one and the others are lying?

You all did notice this is in a satelite section? So lines down is less likely.
 

He is on DirecWay.

True, the other end could be in a week long storm, and yet be clear where he is at.
 

So do you miss your dway php? 

I thought I posted this but I guess not, probably cause it was like 1am on that original post I think but anyhow my actual download speeds on files I download are still pointing to me getting 1.5meg's as well. I am always downloading in the 200 to 300 Kbps range actual speed. That would be in line with my old speed tests actually, meaning I am still well above my plan speed of 1.5 MB/s during off peak times and running about on target or a little slow during peak times because it can get as low as 130 kB/s at those times.

I am not knocking this site just reporting what I am seeing as this is my favorite site and has been for years as well as PcPitstop which also doesn't care what you want to hear, lol. I have tested with Hughes, Speakeasy, Vonage and PcPitstop and all but this one are reflecting what I am seeing when I download a file. This has just happened in like the last 2 weeks and I am fully aware of the congestion and reroute problems of ISP's and especially satt. I have been a satt. customer for 4 years and a vigilante troubleshooter for 2 years hehe. But I do appreciate the quick responce in pointing these things out.

Just to make it more clear, when I tested before I used the largest test and when my speed was running overspeed in off peak hours the test would open on my screen at about 30% and run up smothly from there but now it still will open at around 30% but it downloads or at least shows to be downloading in chunks of 10 to 20% insted of increasing smoothly. I am going to clean everything out on my computer later today and try again but I doubt it aill make a difference as I don't get anything harmfull but maybe once a year if that. I will post my results from both this site and others after I have finished that.

I know friends of the family that work for Verizon, and they use TMN to test the speeds, not the Verizon site 

I realise Hughes is bursty but I have always gotten an accurate test from here aside form the last month,
Ok, everything cleaned out so here we go, I am going to run each test 3 times and post the average here for each site.

Speakeasy: 1494 down
Hughes: 1202 down
Pcpitstop: 1243 down
Vonage: 1490 down
Testmy: 643 down
Actual transfer rate on a 7MB files was 238 kB/s
I know that Java has nothing to do with the test results I am getting because almost if not all of these tests are Java based including hughes own test. At any rate there are the numbers, you can work on it from there if you want, maybe I am the only one and thas ok if I am, I only check my speed about once a week or so anyhow so no biggy.

To share the good news I just talked to a guy that has set up a fixed wireless web around the town just north of me and is moving to the town closest to me next and his first tower is going to be about 3 miles from me which puts me in range and his top service will be 1024 up and down for $59.99 a month and the tower should be comisioned before Jan.01 so Hughes days are limited from the looks of things.

Good luck with the wireless zeddlar 

Very cool and congrats on the new server, hope it didnt break the bank, hehe.

Oh, the servers always break the bank... it takes allot to host a site that's this popular.  

But I'll actually be saving a few bucks a month going to the one super server instead of the two less powerful servers (that are still really super servers, lol)

It looks like the new server is going to be a

Dual Intel Woodcrest 5130 Dual Core Processors
Hard Drive(s) HDD: Two 250GB SATA RAID Hard Drives
100 Mbps Uplink
2048 MB RAM (I may change this to 4GB, I'll try with 2GB to start though)

So it's basically a quad-core system with a S#!t load of resources.  I currently have two Dual XEON 2.8 GHz servers with 1GB ram each and two 80GB drives on each.  So this will be a nice upgrade for us and the single server setup will simplify the whole setup.  Single server setup was impossible when I ordered the current servers because my host didn't have packages with enough bandwidth to suit our needs.  But they now have packages with enough bandwidth and I'm sure in the near future they'll be upgrading the packages (they've been doing that every 6 months or so)... so as our traffic grows and our bandwidth needs go up I'll be okay and won't have to worry about bandwidth overages.

I just gave my host the go ahead to get the new server online so look for this nice upgrade in the near future.  I'm sure that the already fast page requests will be even faster and overall reliability will go up as well.

-D

What are you doing with the old servers?

No - I mean what's going to happen to the hardware?  Thrown out?  Sold?

I'm asking, as I might be interested in buying one for my home here to use as a test platform (if the price is right).   

Get this, I found out that if I move my curser up of the screen onto the tool bar the test runs normally. Figure that one out, I don't have any idea why but it works every time and if I leave my mouse curser anywhere but on the tool bar at the top of explorer than it stalls and doesnt run right.

::::::::::.. Download Stats ..::::::::::
Download Connection is:: 2061 Kbps about 2.1 Mbps (tested with 2992 kB)
Download Speed is:: 252 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2007/07/11 - 11:58am
Bottom Line:: 36X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 4.06 sec
Tested from a 2992 kB file and took 11.89 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: Awesome! 20% + : 93.7 % faster than the average for host (direcpc.com)