Sunday, March 24, 2013

5 Best Sites To Check Your Internet Speed

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     Are you vexed up with a slow internet connection and impatient about the service provided by your ISP? Or, if you are the one curious to know about the speed of your broadband connection, checking the internet speed is easy and free and there are several tools available online which helps you in checking your connections upload and download speeds.

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Here are the top 5 tools which help you in checking the internet speed:

SpeedTest: Speedtest.net, Probably is the best one and stands first in the list. Using this you can check the speed of your connection consistently by pinging to the nearest available servers.

McAFee SpeedoMeter: This tool comes from the Security giant McAfee, and this one gives you the results in no time. (This is the fastest when compared to the rest)

BandWidthPlace: Bandwidth Place is a price and compare online shopping place for bandwidth related services like DSL, Cable and Satellite Internet which gives actual broadband connection speeds in the results.

BroadbandSpeedChecker: With BroadbandSpeedChecker, you can measure your download & upload speeds.

BBC iPlayer: BBC has launched iPlayer which helps you in determining the speeds. With iPlayer you can enjoy watching TV and Listening Radio. BBC iPlayer even has an iPad App.

       Users are suggested to note that internet speeds are measured in kbps (kilobits per second), don’t get confused with kBps (which is kilo BYTES per second), for your quick calculation 1kBps = 8kbps.

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