So you’ve been noticing that your web surfing experience isn’t what it once was and you want to know why.  You need to do a broadband speed test. Running a broadband speed test is the best way to determine if your seemingly slow internet speed is a real problem that you should contact your ISP [...]

Broadband speed tests are fast becoming as important to the maintenance and care of your computer as oil changes are to your car.  Broadband speed tests track your computers bandwidth by tracking its uploading and downloading speeds.  Some of the better broadband speed tests on the market also measure the latency of your broadband connection, [...]

Broadband speed tests examine your computer and your network’s bandwidth to see at what rate it is running.  This is done by having a server send a data packet to your computer and then having your computer send the data packet back. When your computer receives the data it downloads it from the internet, when [...]

Today is not the internet world of years past.  The static click and whir of the old dial up connection starting up is no longer an everyday occurrence.  Instead, most internet savvy homes use either a DSL or a Cable connection for their web surfing needs.  Of course this change delivered faster speeds, but at [...]

Recently the broadband speed test mega site Speedtest.net participated in a study of the world’s broadband providers to determine which countries have the fastest and which countries have the slowest broadband connection speeds. Throughout the month of May, 2008, Speedtest.net conducted over eight million broadband speed tests on servers worldwide.  The authors of the study [...]