Does anyone know how to tell connection speed?

Question

Does anyone know of a method (preferably an ActiveX control)
that will
tell you the speed of your connection (in bps)?

Answer 1

http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html

Answer 2

There are many sites out there that will tell you for free, just do a search. But you can right click on local area conections icon in the toolbar (bottom right looks like two monitors), then click status. This will give you an idea.

Answer 3

go to yahoo.com search and type in bandwidth speed test. tons of links to chose from. the test isn't all that accurate but it is something.

a better test is to set up an ftp server on a remote location (friends house, etc.) make a 1MB plain text file and put it in the ftp directory run a batch file for n number of times and take the mean.

Answer 4

try this link http://reviews.cnet.com/7004-7254_7-0.html