Test Connection Speed :: Speedup Your Internet Connection

How fast is your internet connection? Have you ever tested the connection speed? You’ll find lots of programs and websites that will test your Internet speed.

Simply search the Internet for test connection speed. You will be surprised by the number of web sites that provide free test for connection speed. Pick one and see how fast your connection speed test out. If you using a dial-up connection, do not expect to get great results. In fact, dial-up connections are the lowest connection on the Internet.

Testing only takes a few seconds and measures the time it takes your connection to download different files of different sizes.

Test the Pings

Another way to test your connection speed – test pings. Ping is an application that tests the time it takes a small size packet data (max 64KB) to go to the destination and back. This simple test of your connection speed can be done by you. Go to Start->Run. Type in ping www.google.com (or any other website that you want) and see the results. It will show you the respond time (in milliseconds). Check the Internet to see how good your results really are.

Test your connection speed on different days of the week, at different hours to see variations of your speed connection. The speed will vary from test to test. Try a program that will speed-up your Internet connection and then test it again! See if your connection speed is better.