@deserthavenwrote: @GabeUwrote: @deserthaven It's possible for different browsers to give different results, but that big of a difference is probably just coincidence. My Edge browser sometimes gives really strange test results, especially if I haven't been to TMN for a while with that browser (I don't normally use Edge). Sometimes it will stick in the beginning, then slingshot across the progress bar, given me really odd results. Chrome is the browser I find to work best when testing, but that could also just be my preference for it. I just tried a test using Firefox and then a test using Chrome immediately afterward, and the difference was only 0.3Mbps. After typing that I tried a test with Edge and it was 0.9Mbps lower than Firefox, which was the lower of the first two. Again, not much difference, and with it being two minutes after the first two it could just be that my speed truly did go down nearly 1Mbps. Gabe, Liz Ran auto test overnight, testing every hour. Tried something that appears to have worked, mostly anyway. I had both Chrome and FF open, and set auto test to run on each but at an offset of about 10 minutes. Ran 5 tests each. Although the results this morning have thrown in two combo tests of up and download on it's own so not sure what browser(s) that was and why it did that. Note that overnight the two browsers were fairly close in results and fairly good speeds considering my past performances. This morning ran 4 back to back tests, 2 on each browser. The last four on this chart are those with FF being the low ones of 6.7 and 6.5 and Chrome the 16.4 and 16. 2. Now, why such a difference in results now when overnight and a few other times are much closer? Also, FF and Chrome aren't consistent in one always being the faster and one the slower. Odd to me but I'm sure there are many factors at play in these tests. (I just noticed two other random tests at 8 something a.m. this morning but at 17mb instead of 25. Hmmm.....Thinking I did those but I know I clicked to use 25MB on each browser.....? Also, in the chart of results, the overnight testing I had marked as "Home" for Firefox and "Work" for Chrome so I could more easily see the varying results as opposed to just checking the timestamp of the test. After 6 days of tests I'm still only averaging 9.7 download. I'll continue to see how it works in real time as far as video streaming, web pages, etc. I'll be gone for several hours midday, but may run a few scattered auto tests. --------------------------------------- Gabe, Just a quick update which is interesting to me, but maybe expected from those more knowledgeable. I got another ethernet cable yesterday and connected my older WIN 7 laptop to router as well via LAN. No programs except testmy.net on each laptop with both Firefox and Chrome opened on both. Ran a few tests a couple different times this morning on each, back to back with both browsers. The older Win 7 pc which is much slower in general as far as computers go, showed speeds almost twice as high, in both browsers, as the WIn 10 new laptop. I forgot to log in on the Win 7 pc so results not showing except on that pc. But, Win 10 pc speeds 11.5 , 12.9, 16.2, 14.8, and 15.6. Win 7 pc, Chrome and FF as well, same interspered time period, 17.4, 29.4, 26.8, and 33.0. So there you have it. I'm not sure at all now that these tests are helpful in any significant way, and maybe not really at all as I've sometimes gotten an extremely low speed on one browser . Maybe to a computer tech they would help to tweak the actual computer and browser systems, etc. but I'm clueless there. At any rate, everything seems to be working for the most part but I'll know more about consistency of usability over the next few days and we can go from there. It may be that the new modem/router (not sure what to call it) made a difference as the weather hasn't changed much here. Thanks again to all and after Liz can pull some data from the modem we may see that there's nothing to actually do.
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