Of course everyone has a different ISP’s like the popular Comcast, Time Warner, Google Fiber (if you’re lucky), or lesser known local or municipal providers. There are a lot of different services online that will test and show you your upload and download speeds, but for this, we’d like everyone to use the popular SpeedTest.net. It allows you to test your speeds from your location to various parts of the country and even the world. For best results, pick a location closest to you.
Test your Internet Connection Speed
Using SpeedTest is easy. Just go to speedtest.net and select Begin Test – your current location should already be selected.
After starting the test, it will display a meter with info on how it’s going. It will test your download speed first, then your upload speed.
If you do want to test the speeds against other parts of the world, just move the green location mark at the bottom as shown below.
After it’s complete, click on “Share This Result”, and copy the link and paste it into the comments. Then we can all compare our speeds and have a little fun! Do keep in mind it will take us some time to approve comments, so please be patient if you don’t see the results right away.
Some tips to keep in mind for getting the best results: If this is the first time you’ve tested your connection speed, make sure to read our article on understanding your speed test results. Let’s have some fun guys! Use the comments below to show your test or just type in the results you see if you don’t want to link to it in the comments. I’m going to test mine once I get home. Here at work, my corporate connection is not very realistic…. My blazingly fast speed test had only one PC on my networkh nothing else running but speedtest. (And I’ve had multiple desktops, laptops tablets with different hw and OS’s, changed out routers and modems so if it’s my hardware I must have the worst luck ever). Never thought I’d go the ATT route but even if it’s dogslow, I would save enough each month on Directv/Comcast bills to pay for gas to drive to McD or the library to use a faster connection :) First thing I would try is a reboot of everything. Your Comcast Router, Wireless Router and your computer. If that doesn’t fix things, call Comcast back and don’t hang up until they get you to a manager. There is seriously something BROKEN!!! Pretty good, considering it’s exactly what my ISP contract says I’m given. Really happy with my upload speeds, too. remember I live in the sticks in rural MN and to be honest I am lucky to even have DSL. The guy down the road from me…about a mile can only get dial up or do the HughesNet … which is PURE crap!
Back in my early days of IT, I paid my dues working a help desk for a national chain of stores that had a contract with Hughes for its stores…LOL VSAT man. Everyday, and I mean every day, there was an outage somewhere in the country. If it snows, you have to climb up on your roof and clear the snow off the dish… Anyway, those days are long gone. Done with Rant. How much does that cost? The current Australian government is planning to upgrade the copper network to fiber. The plan is to have fiber to the node and then copper to the home – bit nutty, but we’ll see what happens! How much does that cost? http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3659336539 http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3659461129 http://www.speedtest.net/result/3659461129.png BTW – Love Wenatchee. Stayed there one time when I went to a show at the Gorge… Awesome but hot! 14 down, 1 up (country New Zealand)
4.62 mbps down 0.12 mbps up Not bad at peak times. If we were to open it up, we’d be opening a whole can of worms. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3667023276 Although this was via wifi, and I suspect it would be faster if it were hard-wired. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3697368896 CenturyLink DSL: 14 down, 0.85 up. Pathetic upload speed because CenturyLink is too cheap to upgrade their boards. Maybe I should mention that folks in Romania, Thailand and remote NZ get better speeds that in this metro area. I could get higher speeds with Cox cable, but their reliability, latency and jitter are horrible. So I stick with a $28 reliable DSL, even though the upload capabilities are reminiscent of the 1990s. http://www.speedtest.net/my-result/3697809796 http://www.speedtest.net/result/3729177460.png Comment Name * Email *
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