ISP Connection Test

[Fergal]

My Internet connection has been running a little slower than usual recently. How can I test or view my connection speed from my PC? I'd prefer not to use an online speed test.

Thanks!

[b4db0y]

Well you always download a Bandwidth Meter. It really helps

[Fergal]

Well you always download a Bandwidth Meter. It really helps

Thanks for the suggestion. Can you recommend a particular one, any chance of a link?

Thanks again!

[JPolito830]

I never heard of a bandwidth meter...I too would love some suggestions!

[Nazreen]

Me too... that's the first time I've heard of a bandwidth meter. Anyway, I googled bandwidth meters and found out that there are already add-ons made for Mozilla Firefox.

You can try the two Bandwidth Meter add-ons below.

Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics 1.1 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2450)
Broadband Speed Test and Diagnostics 1.1 (https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/2360)

[Fergal]

Thanks Nazreen, I've tried the second one - ..Sped Test ..

It says my upload speeds are slow but download speeds appear to be fine.

[smudgey]

You can also try speedtest.net if you want

[Fergal]

Hi smudgey, welcome to Business Advice Forum and thanks for the link, that's a very impressive and useful site. You can see my results below.

BTW, you will be able to post links when you've made a couple more posts, we had to disable them for new members because of the amount of SPAM we were getting from bots.

http://www.speedtest.net/result/293205565.png (http://www.speedtest.net)

[The Elite Shinobi]

Speedtest.net is the site I use for testing my download and upload speeds as well. Wow Fergal, you have a 4Mbps download speed and you're complaining about its slowness :o

Here's my results:
http://www.speedtest.net/result/293432707.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
And I feel I've a great connection!

[ritajones56]

speedtest.net is an very good site. And I wish I had a 4Mbs download speed too!

[Zantetsken]

That is a good site indeed, but how accurate is it? This was my result...
http://www.speedtest.net/result/300038917.png (http://www.speedtest.net)
And I know that I've loaded Flash files that were just a couple of megabytes and it did not load them up within a couple of seconds... but I just tried another site, http://myspeed.visualware.com/, and it basically said the same thing. Does anyone know why that is?