Slow Speed and bad service

[WB Steve]

We recommend using Firefox with our new Optimizer. The results we've seen ourselves, as well as the feedback from customers, have been overwhelmingly positive. On a personal note, I have a "dog" laptop at home that has very low RAM in it, and I switched it to Firefox with the new Optimizer, and it's like night and day. You should see pages load faster.

[wm4bama]

We recommend using Firefox with our new Optimizer. The results we've seen ourselves, as well as the feedback from customers, have been overwhelmingly positive. On a personal note, I have a "dog" laptop at home that has very low RAM in it, and I switched it to Firefox with the new Optimizer, and it's like night and day. You should see pages load faster.

Wow Steve! Do you actually have Wildblue as your ISP...I had always assumed all you mods lived in areas where cable or DSL was available...if you really are using the satellite then that makes your responses to questions more valuable, IMHO....

[micwa]

RTFQ LOL Thank you.

I see my prediction held true. LOL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! !!!!!!!!!

[whysoslow]

:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 525 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)
Download Speed is:: 64 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2010/01/03 - 7:31am
Bottom Line:: 9X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 16 sec
Tested from a 512 kB file and took 7.986 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 60.55 % of your hosts average (wildblue.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-98XBYLRWS
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.38 Safari/532.0 [!]

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[whysoslow]

Test 2
:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 544 Kbps about 0.54 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)
Download Speed is:: 66 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 98 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 12 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2010/01/03 - 7:50am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-8WPXQ3504
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-GI10Q6TE7
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.38 Safari/532.0 [!]

[zackattack94]

Test 2
:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 544 Kbps about 0.54 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)
Download Speed is:: 66 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 98 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 12 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2010/01/03 - 7:50am
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-8WPXQ3504
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-GI10Q6TE7
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.38 Safari/532.0 [!]

What package do you have with wildblue?

[frank]

don't feel so bad whysoslow, i pay $80 a month and heres what i get at peak times (3pm to 11pm)

:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 150 Kbps about 0.15 Mbps (tested with 512 kB)
Download Speed is:: 18 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 117 Kbps about 0.1 Mbps (tested with 386 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 14 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Main)
Test Time:: 2010/01/03 - 6:16pm
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-46W0OR9MK
U-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-7ZNHVDC61
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.10; .NET CLR 2.0.50727; ffco7) Gecko/20071115 Firefox/2.0.0.10 [!]

yet in the mornings i can get download speeds of 185+kB/s.

[CelestialStorm]

When you go do those tests PLEASE use a larger size test and not the small files of 512kB. It is going to show very inaccurate results because of the latency to get the test started. Your speeds will show slow on that small of a test file. Use at least the 1.5MB test file.

[whysoslow]

What package do you have with wildblue?

The Basic Package

[whysoslow]

New Test - 5:45am
:::.. Download Stats ..:::
Download Connection is:: 517 Kbps about 0.5 Mbps (tested with 3064 kB)
Download Speed is:: 63 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net/ (Main)
Test Time:: 2010/01/04 - 3:46am
Bottom Line:: 9X faster than 56K 1MB Download in 16.25 sec
Tested from a 3064 kB file and took 48.504 seconds to complete
Download Diagnosis:: May need help : running at only 59.63 % of your hosts average (wildblue.net)
D-Validation Link:: http://testmy.net/stats/id-9WXZMNQJI
User Agent:: Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 6.0; en-US) AppleWebKit/532.0 (KHTML, like Gecko) Chrome/3.0.195.38 Safari/532.0 [!]