how can i find out what speed i'm downloading at?

Question

just upgraded from 4meg to 10meg download but curious as to what speed i'm actually downloading at?

anyone know any sites where i can test my download speed as it doesn't really seem that much faster??

Answer 1

if your running a 10 Mbps connection (which is the same speed that i'm running at) i download at 500 kb/s. that's really fast compared to the 4 Mbps (about 250kb/s)

next time you download software, your windows downloader pop-up should show you "Download Speed" : around 400 kb/s depending the website you download from...

Answer 2

i use a program called "dan elwells broadband speed test"(http://www.broadbandspeedtest.net/)
this runs in a limited program until you register but the demo mode is enough to give you a report which will have your download speed in it
the good thing about this is it gives you a comparison to comapre your results to and will let you know if the speeds are too slow and what recomendations to take
good luck

Answer 3

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

alot of times it depends on how fast the server is letting u download at the other end .. or if ur using a p2p app how fast the peers are allowing it ..

Answer 4

http://www.dslreports.com/stest

Answer 5

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

Answer 6

http://www.bandwidthplace.com/speedtest/

how hard is it to look for these things yourself?

Answer 7

I use this site http://www.speedtest.net/



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Answer 8

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/

this will tell you how honey