How Fast IS Your Internet Connection?

There are three wellknown different Web sites that measure your current Internet connection speed:

Bandwidth Place's Speed Test

http://bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

DSLReport's (now Broadbandreport's) Speed Tests

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

and CNET's Bandwidth Meter

http://webservices.cnet.com/Bandwidth/ .

(All three sites are similar. Click on a button and your Web browser
downloads a relatively large file (usually an image). When the
download is complete, the site tells you your Internet connection
speed at the moment the file was downloaded.
That's the good news. The bad news is that the three sites give you
three WILDLY different speeds. So take the results of each site with
a massive grain of salt.)


I like most another one:
Numion's YourSpeed at
http://numion.com/yourspeed/


Not only because this site refers to Germany, I think that its cool: it combines a speed test with the crushing feeling that my computer is on the verge of exploding. :wink:
( While those three other sites test your connection
speed by downloading a single image file, Numion tests your connection
speed by downloading images from about forty popular Web sites around the world. All at once. The result is both cool and oddly frightening.)