Are you happy with your ISP?
by Frank Jovine on 09/22/2008 in Internet
Are you truly getting the speed you’re paying for from your ISP?
There are many web sites that offer you a way to test your download and upload speed, but we found one that really does it well. The speed test takes less than one minute for both the download and upload along with your transfer rate in kilobits per second (thousands of bits per second) and is a measure of bandwidth (the amount of data that can flow in a given time) on a data transmission medium.

Speed tests will vary depending on the time of day when traffic utilization is higher than normal. It’s recommended to run at least 3 tests during different times of the day and than take an average from the 3 tests results to determine your download and upload speed.
Speedtest.net is a broadband connection analysis tool with a huge selection of geographically dispersed testing servers. Planning to move to a new city and want to know what the fastest ISP is there? Check it out with Speedtest.net.





Fool
Sep 22nd, 2008
Great site use it all the time to check, also use http://www.dslreports.com/ to run tweak test, highly recommended to tweak your settings.
Curt
Sep 23rd, 2008
Thanks for the tip. I’ve used a few, but I’ll give this a try. It’s always nice to know if you’re getting what you paid for.