Testing Your Internet Speed

 

Sometimes you want to find out the performance of your broadband or Internet speed.

There is a simple web site called SpeedTest.net, that tests both your download and upload speeds.

Go to this web site and you get a map of the world showing a whole raft of servers with which you can check your speed. The best for you is marked as a yellow pyramid.


The web site then does a download and upload test and then displays the results as a web page.


Note that this site also has good links to help you to choose a better ISP, if yours is rather slow.

Note too, that I have used the Daisy Presentation Browser to create the images for this post. This program allows you to set the dialog to any size you require, so that in this topic for display I have chosen 1024 x 768. You can also remove all of the tool, status and address bars to get a cleaner web page.