I did more speed testing using both COX (to my OC server) and using about 5 other test links, from openspeed, att, speakeasy, DLS Rpt...etc. My conclusion is that every one gives a different results, especially on the Download side. All depends on how far the servers are located. I see so many users make issue of various slow speed, but I wonder how many pay attention to where the tests are going. Some of the testing tools do not allow changing servers. Speedtest.net to OC gave me the closest to COX. ATT and DLS Rpt gave the highest, similar to what I was getting on COX for both the Download and Upload side a week or so ago. I think using the COX speed test is not the only tool to use.
My issue when posting this thread was I was wondering why the Upload dropped to almost half my 11.0 numbers from a week ago. As I said, I'm not concerned since I'm not a gamer, but other users may find a problem with this. I'm guessing that there is a bottleneck in some server that PingPlotter identified for me that is used when I speedtest to my OC server.
My other issue is about not being able to post into this forum any screenshot or clipboard images. I can use the snipping tool that Zurg mentioned, but the rt mouse paste is blank. I tried to post my PingPlotter image but could not get it to work. However, it does paste into my email and into other images. I use Firefox and have tried various screen capture utilities. Kinda weird, because I see other users including their clipboard entries. For me, I can post pure text into the forum, but not images...my Pingplotter did show packet lost at hop 6 to Cox.com....however, just 'ping -n 20 cox.com' showed no packet lost
