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Although our preferred method for determining your connect speed on
the Internet is with the INETBENCH utility (for more info, click here),
there are a variety of online speed tests that you can use.
Most of these are geared towards measuring file download speeds that
you might see when downloading files like MP3's or software
applications -- and thus aren't really relevant to the speeds you
get when you are just "surfing" the Internet. And
because there are so many variables involved, you'll likely see some
wide variations in the speeds reported. All of which is why we
prefer tests such as INETBENCH, of course! But these
other tests do serve some purpose, so here are some of the better
ones:
- DSL Reports --
these tests require JAVA plug-in and JAVASCRIPT enabled, plus if you
are using any ad blocking software you will need to disable it --
site also has some excellent speed tweaking tools
- SpeakEasy.net -- very
similar to the DSL Reports test
- AT&T Yahoo DSL Internet Throughput Test -- AT&T's test, but anyone can use it
- Internet Frog
-- good speed test, plus a variety of other network tools are available
- Broadband Speed Checker
-- good simple-to-use test from the UK
- numion.com
WebSpeed -- this is more similar to what we do with
INETBENCH since they actually measure download speeds to various web sites
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