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[sd455dan]

Have two computers, both see the download slower than the upload.


What is a wired test?



I guess my ISP is AT&T since the signal to the mobley is from their cell tower:

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Yeah have very seldom seen Upload faster than download on the Mobley

Download speeds lately have been pretty good

Upload speeds lately around 5 Mbps Up and around 30 Mbps down



Your Test Results (Tested on 12/16/2019, 8:20:14 PM)

Download Speed HELP 31.1 Mbps (3887.5 KB/sec transfer rate)

Upload Speed HELP 5.11 Mbps (638.8 KB/sec transfer rate)

Latency HELP 64 ms

ps. did see that effect with the Mobley in some different locations and orientations

Try moving the Mobley and re running the speed test

 

[TractorGuy]

Never seen that here. Just ran at Speedtest.net and got 17.37 down and .57 up. Ran it again at AT&T and got 20 down and .7 up.

My Mobley died right out of warranty so I have it's sim in a ZTE Velocity.

 

[jcummins]

I'm seeing at times upload speeds being are the download speeds to

 

[BigBlue1]

I tried a Nighthawk, and my speed went down by alot. I went outside with it and moved around to see if i could get better, but couldn't. I admit to be pretty surprised, i thought it would be much better.

Before the Nighthawk I tried a Unite Explore. That one was similarly problematic and got me lower speeds than the Mobley. I guess it depends on your tower situation which tech works best.

Rob

 

[Xfaxman]

Yeah have very seldom seen Upload faster than download on the Mobley

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ps. did see that effect with the Mobley in some different locations and orientations

Try moving the Mobley and re running the speed test

Yep, I know from previous experience is is very location and position sensitive. We are just over 5 miles from the cell tower. The two computers are at opposite ends of the house. The Mobley is between them hooked to a small 12 volt AGM battery with a Schumacher SC1299 Battery Maintainer on it.

The problem is positioning the Mobley so both computers get a fast download speed. I turned it and moved it back a little and got this on mine:

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With this signal to the Mobley:

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Got 8.1 down and 12 Mbps up on the wife's computer, so will leave it there.

 

[TractorGuy]

I wish I had a decent upload speed.

I have my unit attached inside the blinds in my computer room with some loosely connected zip ties. I can slide it off and on the blinds pretty easy. This is the best location I've found in my house. I think the AT&T tower is about 10 miles away.

I recently switched my phone to AT&T prepaid from Verizon. My call quality started to decline and I started getting popup messages on the phone to try wi-fi calling for improved in home connections. Sounded like Verizon made some changes that they KNEW would effect in home service and thought I should make changes to accommodate them. Seeing as how my wi-fi was on AT&T I felt the change was a logical step to improvement and so far it has been.

Previously when my AT&T connection would be out or suffering I would use my Verizon phone for wi-fi. It would never get much over 750 kbps down.

 

[Xfaxman]

Got this this morning, first time in all the many years that I have been running speed tests that the down and up speeds were the same:

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Just now checked the wife's computer, got 8.5 Mbps down and 6.9 Mbps up.

Signal strength on the Mobley from tower is -111 dBm

 

[TractorGuy]

This is the first I've noticed the more info option on the fast test. Interesting the different locations referenced.

 

[Xfaxman]

This is the first I've noticed the more info option on the fast test. Interesting the different locations referenced.
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And note the major differences in the down and up numbers in the bottom line. Mine are opposite of your's. Your down is faster than your up. Which is how it should be.

The different locations are from the AT&T IP Address shown. Mine has always shown the Dallas TX area, really messes up google search location results.

 

[BigBlue1]

And note the major differences in the down and up numbers in the bottom line. Mine are opposite of your's. Your down is faster than your up. Which is how it should be.

The different locations are from the AT&T IP Address shown. Mine has always shown the Dallas TX area, really messes up google search location results.

The numbers in the bottom line (30MB and 3.9MB) are not speeds, they are the size of the test load. Netflix (fast.com) recently added that bottom section, which you can see if you click the new 'More Information" button at the bottom of the initial screen. If these numbers are not what you were referring to then disregard this...

Speaking of location, it sounds like your IP is tagged as being from AT&T's network in the Dallas area. I have a similar problem where the IP I get from either my phones or the connected car hotspot is shown as being in Chicago. I'm in central MN. This definitely screws up location-based stuff like web sites trying to figure out what is the closest store to me. Wish I could resolve that. I contacted AT&T about it several years ago and they responded to me like I had three heads and was asking what color the cheese on the moon is. Eventually they just said "that shouldn't happen... don't know."

Rob

 

[sodamo]

Sure wish there were a solution to the location thing. I’m in Hawaii but often my wifi devices think I’m in Ca and some sites insist. Particularly annoying when you have accounts with locations supposedly locked in or some that won’t let you select a local option.

 

[TractorGuy]

We all seem to have the same location problem.

I have complained to Home Depot about their web site inability to keep me logged in. If I want to see stock info for my store I have to log in every visit. I know this is more secure though.

Lowes on the other hand remembers my location but would still require me to log in if I wanted to make a purchase online.

Most of the time I just want to know if they have what I need and about where it's at in the store so I can run to town and get it.

 

[the old grind]

Phone service is no less cockeyed. Apple thinks I'm calling support from SE of Cincinnati, when I'm >1 hour North of Detroit.

No telling where they think my computer is when they're logged in and mousing around my screen showing me where/what to click during a call.

'High tech' anymore goes to s__ at the point of sale. You hand over your dough on a promise, and get in line to be ignored. :laughing:

"Mark of the Devil?" .. Rather than a trio of digits, I wonder if it's just a SIM card.

btw, while we're living better digitally, how's caller ID workin' for ya?

(And Comcast's 3.5 Mbps for $43/mo isn't stealing us away from AT&T? Hmm ..)

 

[Xfaxman]

The numbers in the bottom line (30MB and 3.9MB) are not speeds, they are the size of the test load. Netflix (fast.com) recently added that bottom section, which you can see if you click the new 'More Information" button at the bottom of the initial screen. If these numbers are not what you were referring to then disregard this...

Thanks, that is what I was referring to. I had noticed that they were always different but didn't know what it was.

It is doing better where it is setting now:

Speaking of location, it sounds like your IP is tagged as being from AT&T's network in the Dallas area. I have a similar problem where the IP I get from either my phones or the connected car hotspot is shown as being in Chicago. I'm in central MN. This definitely screws up location-based stuff like web sites trying to figure out what is the closest store to me. Wish I could resolve that. I contacted AT&T about it several years ago and they responded to me like I had three heads and was asking what color the cheese on the moon is. Eventually they just said "that shouldn't happen... don't know."

Rob

Yep, that is right. Very frustrating.

 

[Xfaxman]

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btw, while we're living better digitally, how's caller ID workin' for ya?

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Sometimes workin' good. When it shows the caller is me, I don't answer .

My home prefix is 586. The population of the town is less than 50. When I see 405-586-xxxx, I don't answer.

 

[sodamo]

The other side of the location thing is Amazon. Seems to always remember where I am. If I am curious about price of something but they won’t ship to my location I get an error message to that fact and won’t show me price unless I change my shipping address.

 

[cqaigy2]

Sure wish there were a solution to the location thing. I’m in Hawaii but often my wifi devices think I’m in Ca and some sites insist. Particularly annoying when you have accounts with locations supposedly locked in or some that won’t let you select a local option.

I've used Location Guard plug-in on my browser, to some success. You pause the plug-in, set it to the location you want, resume and sometime reloading the page.

 

[cqaigy2]

Before the Nighthawk I tried a Unite Explore. That one was similarly problematic and got me lower speeds than the Mobley. I guess it depends on your tower situation which tech works best.

Rob

I started thinking about it, and i wonder if it's frequency related. I think at this location im picking up 700 MHz, i'm not sure if Nighthawk is multi band or if it was locking on something other than 700 MHz.

 

[kcflhrc]

You have to understand your location on the internet is based on where you pull an IP address from. So that is a lot of the issue with websites thinking you are somewhere you are not.

 

[buckeyefarmer]

My Mobley IP is from philly. I’m ok with that.