Free bandwidth speed test meters to test Internet speed
Do you think what your Internet provider claims as the speed is the actual speed of the internet you are able to download?
It is always lesser that what is stated.
You have 3rd party clients which can show you how speed you can upload or download data in your computer with your specific internet provider. Here are a few bandwidth speed test meters where you can check the upload and download stats and other stats too.
Speedtest.net
This tool automatically connects to your server and downloads/uploads a file and calculates the average speed of download and upload and connection speed. Here is what i get when i check my internet connection speed in this tool
CNET Bandwidth Meter
A file is downloaded from our servers that will calculate your bandwidth speed from the CNET Internet Services site. Your bandwidth speed may be affected by the following factors: being located outside of the United States, performing other downloads and this test simultaneously, or executing programs that use your bandwidth to monitor other resources. Here is the result i got -
Broadbandreports.com test
This tool also reports in the same way as the above by downloading and uploading a file to the server and calculating the average speeds of them. It actually takes the results from dslreports.com for the speed test. Here are the results i got -
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this meter shows wrong readings. thats all
Speed test seems to be workling fin for me. Thanks for the link, have bookmarked
I had been using speedtest.net from quite long time. I never found any flaw in their results. Don’t know about the rest of to services but speedtest.net is awesome. Good article.
Not to brag or anything but I think I found a better test…. The above test gives basic speed information but no real info you quality or capability of your connection. My favorite Broadband Speed Test site is ispgeeks.com.
Click on Broadband Diagnostics then TCP Quality Test and the rest is simple. They also have a true speed test, voip test and a couple of other things.
You get data back like this (testing my connection)
Speed test statistics
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Download speed: 7437424 bps
Upload speed: 1646448 bps
Download quality of service: 97 %
Upload quality of service: 95 %
Download test type: socket
Upload test type: socket
Maximum TCP delay: 76 ms
Average download pause: 3 ms
Minimum round trip time to server: 60 ms
Average round trip time to server: 61 ms
Estimated download bandwidth: 35200000bps
Route concurrency: 4.7328215
Download TCP forced idle: 77 %
Maximum route speed: 8738000bps
Plus it even gives you graphical data such as this (based on the test above).
http://174.34.146.20/myspeed/db/report?id=1986
that was completely wrong meter
[...] on September 29, 2009, 4:31 am, by admin. There are hundreds of tools available to test broadband speed of the internet broadband connection that you are using, but most of them work with just the [...]