Broadband Speed check

Can someone please tell me where I can get an program or Application
which will enable me to accurtaely check what my broadband speed is?

(E-Mail Removed) wrote:
> Can someone please tell me where I can get an program or Application
> which will enable me to accurtaely check what my broadband speed is?


Try this:

http://www.thinkbroadband.com/tbbmeter.html

Very thorough and free.

Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:
> "Ato_Zee" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
> news:5LARl.149576$(E-Mail Removed)2...
>>> There isn't really such a thing as an accurate speed check, it's like
>>> asking
>>> exactly how fast your car can go, it depends on the other traffic at the
>>> time in the particular area you happen to be at the time.
>> Best test I've found is to put a 1MB (or so) wallpaper file in your
>> free webspace, and time its FTP download, against a stopwatch,
>> at various times of day, it varies with the load on your ISP.
>> It tests how fast a file in your ISP's network can be delivered
>> to you, or to put it another way, how well your ISP can fill
>> the pipe.
>> Once you go outside your ISP's domain, to a speed checker,
>> you are at the mercy of the slowest link in the chain between
>> you and the speedchecker, and whether the speed checkers
>> bandwidth is adequate.
>
> Your ISP should be paying for good connections to all parts of the world,
> those that don't, and claim it's out of their control are lying.
>
That's simply not true. Find me any ISP with a 20Mbps connection to
Outer Mongolia.

Mark McIntyre wrote:
> On 22/05/09 23:11, Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:
> > Natural Philosopher wrote
>>> That's simply not true. Find me any ISP with a 20Mbps connection to
>>> Outer
>>> Mongolia.
>>
>> Okay so I didn't explain it perfectly, however you obviously knew what I
>> meant.
>
> What it /looked/ like you meant is that you thought your ISP should be
> expected to buy high-speed connections to all parts of the world.
>
> As I guess you know, thats not how the internet works. Your ISP at best
> can buy good connections to your country backbone. Once you go off that
> backbone its the /other/ end's ISP that is the problem.

No., at best your ISP is *part* of the country backbone and may own its
own international links,

And if its big enough other people pay IT for transit, and it merely
'peers' with other big players.

<(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
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> Can someone please tell me where I can get an program or Application
> which will enable me to accurtaely check what my broadband speed is?

www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk is the one I tend to use the most

(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
news:50ec6aea-18b6-402b-8830-(E-Mail Removed)...

> Can someone please tell me where I can get an program or Application
> which will enable me to accurtaely check what my broadband speed is?

Do you really want your "Broadband speed"? That's the synchronisation
speed of your broadband link between your ADSL modem/router and the
DSLAM. This is normally available in your modem/router statistics.

If you're on a BT line, irrespective of ISP providing your broadband
service, then http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ will generally provide a
test of the broadband connectivity alone, isolated from any ISP onward
congestion. This will give you your "Broadband speed", for which you are
asking and, more important, your IP profile which determines the maximum
IP throughput. The actual IP rate stated only applies to that found
during the test, between the tester and your computer, so will be less
than the IP profile.

Other speed testers provide a guide to the end-to-end speed between a
site somewhere out in the Internet, via your ISPs infrastructure,
through to your computer, which clearly will depend on traffic on the
various links and nodes in the path.

--
John W
I you really want to mail me, replace the obvious with co.uk twice

Hello from a newbie to broadband, just updated from dial-up.

Thanks for the testing link. It showed for my speeds:

Download - 4654 kbps (581.8 KB/sec)
Upload - 206 kbps (25.8 KB/sec)

I don't understand these as nowhere near these speeds do I get, not even the
ones in brackets. My top download speed rarely goes above 10 kb/sec and
down as far as 6 kb/sec.

Is this normal? Thanks for any help
Katherine



>> Can someone please tell me where I can get an program or Application
>> which will enable me to accurtaely check what my broadband speed is?
>
> www.speedtest.bbmax.co.uk is the one I tend to use the most
>
>
>
>

On Sun, 24 May 2009 14:24:58 +1000, jones wrote:

>Hello from a newbie to broadband, just updated from dial-up.
>
>Thanks for the testing link. It showed for my speeds:
>
>Download - 4654 kbps (581.8 KB/sec)
>Upload - 206 kbps (25.8 KB/sec)
>
>I don't understand these as nowhere near these speeds do I get, not even the
>ones in brackets. My top download speed rarely goes above 10 kb/sec and
>down as far as 6 kb/sec.
>
>Is this normal? Thanks for any help

Maybe... maybe not...

The first number is kilo bits per second (little b), the second one is
kilo Bytes per second (big B). Your 6-10kb/sec is slower than dial-up
so where are you getting that value from? Is it the maximum speed or an
average speed?

If you have a BT line you can try http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ and
post us the results from that.

We also need to know what your modem says about the line, sync speed -
SNR - attenuation, these should be available on a status page
somewhere. If you don't know where tell us which modem you have and
someone may be able to tell you where to look.

You have the speed that the modem connects at. This is always higher
than what you can download at since there is extra info needed so that
the modem can talk to the exchange and that takes up some of the space.

Then there is the BRAS or IP rate. This is the speed data come into the
exchange for you and your download speed should be close to that.
However exchanges do get overloaded at times so that can limit things.

Next is what your ISP can handle. They may have so many customers that
they can't supply data to you at the speed the exchange can handle,
What ISP are you with would also be useful to know.

--
Regards - Rodney Pont
The from address exists but is mostly dumped,
please send any emails to the address below
e-mail ngpsm4 (at) infohitsystems (dot) ltd (dot) uk

On Sun, 24 May 2009 19:53:15 +0100, Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:

>"Rodney Pont" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>news:atcfzvasbuvgflfgrzfygqhx.kk5atw1.pminews@ous e.infohitsystems.ltd.uk...
>>...
>> If you have a BT line you can try http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ and
>> post us the results from that.
>
>I'm pretty certain that only works if you are connected to BT broadband
>equiptment at the exchange.

Yes but you don't have to be with BT as the ISP.

--
Regards - Rodney Pont
The from address exists but is mostly dumped,
please send any emails to the address below
e-mail ngpsm4 (at) infohitsystems (dot) ltd (dot) uk

Rodney Pont wrote:
> On Sun, 24 May 2009 19:53:15 +0100, Brian Gregory [UK] wrote:
>
>> "Rodney Pont" <(E-Mail Removed)> wrote in message
>> news:atcfzvasbuvgflfgrzfygqhx.kk5atw1.pminews@ouse .infohitsystems.ltd.uk...
>>> ...
>>> If you have a BT line you can try http://www.speedtester.bt.com/ and
>>> post us the results from that.
>> I'm pretty certain that only works if you are connected to BT broadband
>> equiptment at the exchange.
>
> Yes but you don't have to be with BT as the ISP.
>
crashed my browser. REALLY clever site.