Speed connection

[D' Artagnan]

Ok the title is crappy but I'm in a hurry !

Could u give me a link to a site that could measure my internet speed.
I just changed my net provider with a 1Mbit speed connection that suppositely DLs at 120kb/s but my DSL tweak program says my highest speed connection was 50.38 kb/s

So I'd like to see what really is my spped connection at the moment . Thx

 

[G-Man]

You better look for site belonging to the company you get the connection from. Otherwise you'll have other things affecting it.

BTW there was a thread about it a few months ago but without the search option it's hopeless to find it.

 

[Dralix]

Microsoft used to have one on their site, but I can't find it now ...

 

[D' Artagnan]

OK, thank u I went to the company's site but it was quite odd : I tested it 3 times.
First time, they put 108.37 kb/s, second time 80 and third 120.58

 

[G-Man]

Were you doing something while testing? Serfing, updating, dowloading, using a file sharing program? Or something in the computer (if the computer is busy it could slow down the connection)? Anyway a efw more times and see if it was just an exception.

 

[CruddyLeper]

Might be an idea to do a sustained test on it - say a 1 minute download. Repeat a few times to give a ballpark average.

Bear in mind transmission rates also depend on the speed of the server you are downloading from - if it's very busy this will cause a speed hit.

 

[JonathanValjean]

D' Artagnan, go here: http://www.toast.net/performance/

Then, you can choose from several tests. Generally considered to be the most accurate is the "compression" test. Since you are overseas, it may not be completely accurate for you, but you should give it a shot.

 

[CurtSibling]

Try PC Pitstop, they do good diagnostics.

 

[col]

Moving this to the computer forum

 

[Jeratain]

http://www.2wire.com/ click "bandwidth meter."

 

[CrackedCrystal]

www.dslreports.com has one as well

 

[Turner]

I was going to suggest dlsreports. That's a pretty good site, they have a lot of utilities on it. On my old comp, when I had road runner the first time, it increased my d/l rate from 80kb/sec to 220 kb/sec, with a simple registry tweat. I think the link is www.dslreports.com/tweaks. If not, there should be a link to it on the home page.