Broadband Speed Test Sites

Posts: 409 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:37 am Post subject: Broadband Speed Test Sites

I've been attempting to find my true broadband speed. I've been to two sites and get drastically different readings. When I go to http://myspeed.visualware.com/voip/ Download is 1.03Mbps Upload 368 Kbps. When I go to http://www.wugnet.com/myspeed/speedtest.asp Download 5.98 Mbps Upload 423 Kbps.

Anyone know of a trustworthy Site to do a test?

Posts: 60 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:45 am Post subject:

Most test sites are all over the board for me as well. Here's a few that I use. The one for Charter is in Michigan, so you'll probably get a pretty accurate speed for them. Speakeasy has several you can test from all over the US.

http://speedtest.chartermi.net/
http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/
http://myspeed.visualware.com/speedtest/speedtestjs.html
http://infospeed.verizon.net/

Posts: 409 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:47 am Post subject:

Just tried it at http://www.vonage-forum.com/voip-speed-test.html Download 3.35 Mbps Upload 370 Kbps Think

Posts: 409 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 10:55 am Post subject:

Thanks Talk4Cheap

Tried each one http://speedtest.chartermi.net/ D 6.23 Mpbs U 373.01 http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ D 5789 Kbps U 359 Kbps ...... all over the board also... Guess one would do several and get the closest estimate.

Again Thank you

Posts: 2257 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 11:40 am Post subject:

I've found www.dslreports.com/stest to be pretty good.

Posts: 409 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 12:12 pm Post subject:

Thanks Natehoy!

Posts: 60 · Full Forum Member Joined: Apr 21, 2005 Posts: 60

No matter which site you use, the results will vary. That's just the nature of the Internet and to a lesser extent, your ISP. You may have noticed that at certain times of the day, your connection can really slow down (rush hour) and at other times everything is as advertised (non peak hours).

If you are really interested in how your connection is, I'd suggest something like: Line Speed Meter which checks your speed over time as well as giving you DNS resolution and latency figures. If you run it for a few weeks, you'll get a much more realistic result than just spot checking with the sites previously mentioned.

Good luck

Posts: 10 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 1:27 pm Post subject:

just to add one more.....this is SBC's where you can pick from many different locations: SBC Global speedtest

Posts: 12 · Vonage Forum Associate Joined: Apr 13, 2005 Posts: 12

I dont' think the Yahoo/SBC test site is very acurate. I got 16Mpbs! That's impossible from my house!

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Posts: 409 · Posted: Tue Jan 10, 2006 2:39 pm Post subject:

Thats Fast maha !
I tested at all the above mentioned sites. My estimate is a 5.0 Mbps Download and a 380 Kbps Upload Which from reading info. on is a pretty good bandwidth speed. Also installed the Line Meter V3.0 too keep tabs on times it might slow down and any Voip connection issues that may arise again.

Thanks for all the responses