Broadband speed tests

From time to time you may need to check the speed you are actually getting especially when your internet experience seems to take a dive when it comes to performance.

There are plenty of choices for getting a speed check and you will find that results vary slightly. There are two that I use:

http://www.internetfrog.com/

 There is a lot on the page so to begin a test you just need to click the link (Arrowed above) "Test the speed of your connection"

The second one:

http://www.mybroadbandspeed.co.uk/

There is an easy interface here and the best bit as shown below is it keeps a history of your tests that you can download or display should you need to.

As is the norm, you wont get the full speed your area is geared up for so if you are in an area that can get up to 8meg then you will get something below that. I have found that 3 to 6 meg is the general range most connections achieve in devon on an adsl connection.