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Upload Issue again
GabeU,
Ok, finally got Testmy.net figured out except for one issue, combined testing with max data set.
You see the tabs to the right of 'optional'? Both will set the 'minimum' data size but won't affect the maximum so it still tests anything it wants and of course, if it tests something reasonable the first time and runs quickly it will rerun with more data the next time so it is very important that I remember to click nfw. I'm following your instructions but unless I test upload and download separately I have no control over the maximum data used.
Hughes Level 4 called today (1/11/19) and when she had me run the upload test it was 33Kbps up and 21.3 down. Unplug the modem, bypass the router, long periods of silence and 'still buffering' for 25 minutes until it finally steamed without buffering but I haven't a clue what she did and I got the idea that she had a quota on either words or characters used, kink of like Twitter. I appreciated what ever she did but as she trying to get off the phone I asked if 2215 ms ping rate wasn't a touch long. She said she didn't know, 'bye'. I've never asked any tech about that before so I don't know if only certain techs are familiar with ping rates. I let it go and won't complain unless it becomes a consistant issue. What is your average ping rate? I don't know if testmy.net arbitrarily picks Dallas to ping but that's what this is testing. I understand that a high ping rate will affect the loading of a page which is what I'm running into. Slow to connect, handshake, etc. but once loaded it streams with litte buffering now. She must have done something, 1.5 Mbps up - 25Mbps down. Just so it stays. Thanks for the info.
Oh, you're right, I wasn't able to see that your note about being out of data was addressed to someone else. I've yet to figure out this board.
GabeU Maratsade,
Darn decimal points, refuse to stay where they're planted. It should be .33Mbps and it's actually become even slower at .22Mbps while some videos refuse to even start. Testing was performed with Testmy.net, Ookla, and Xfinity Speed Test. Yesterday, 12/21/18, page loading was about as bad as it gets. Even text only pages with no embedded video was painfully slow causing Testmy.net to time out. I'm running a speed test 12/22/18 at 2:49 and the upload speeds at 2.2Mbps are faster than than the download speeds at .430Mbps but as is the case those slow download numbers are only occuring intermittantly. I was going to average the data from all three speed applications but since the speeds vary with such rapidity even a 30 second difference is enough to generate an inaccurate reading so I used just Testmy.net as the official test. Intel i5 with 8gigs mem on Win 7
If a packet sent from this desktop but not received at Hughes due to noise, a high error rate or whatever, is that packet sent again automatically? I've had videos that refused to load until I refreshed the page and some have timed out without my intervention. I don't know if that is simply a fluke, a coincidence in the timing of my call for the page to refresh or if the data being resent was the reason the page finally loaded.
I think your decimal points have been doing some holiday partying already. LOL.
Where did you get these speeds? "69.1Mbps download and 86.8Mbps upload." The upload speed is especially suspect, so I wonder if you got it with Speedtest, Xfinity, or another one of those tests that are not recommended for testing the speed of a satellite connection, because they do not give reliable results (maybe due to the latency?).
If you could post the URL to your Testmy.net account results page, that'd provide a wealth of data for people (especially HN engineers) to analyze, and it'd give them a more accurate picture of what may be going on.
The URL would look like this: https://testmy.net/quickstats/[your username]
I hope the problems you're experiencing get solved quickly. Stinks to have all these issues.
