Question Best way to test internet connection speed

[merk]

Hi All,

Windows 10 64bit

Moved recently and was lucky enough that they have fiber internet. However, I've never gotten anything near a 1gb on downloads or uploads. Spoke with their tech support and turns out i'm supposed to be getting 400mbps instead of 1gbps. But I havent even been getting 400mbps.

My PC is wired into the router, not using wifi.

I decided to do some testing and the results are very inconclusive. The testing speeds can vary widely not only by what website I'm using, but also what browser I'm using. For example, using the google fiber speedtest page, the speeds will be 2x faster, or more, then if i run the same test in IE.

using speedtest.net, i get really fast uploads in IE, but downloads are slow in both IE and Chrome...but in firefox i get fast downloads.

And just to see if it's a problem with my desktop, i ran the same test on my laptop. More or less the same results, except on my laptop in firefox, it gets fast uploads and downloads on speedtest.net

There doesnt seem to be a single test that behaves consistently. So - what would be the best way to test my connection speed?

 

[SamirD]

The most accurate test I've found is dslreports.com/speedtest.

A quick and dirty test is fast.com but that may not help.

 

[yeshua]

https://speedtest.net and https://fast.com show pretty good and reliable results for me.

If your ISP has its own Iperf2/3 servers you could use them as well.

 

[SamirD]

https://speedtest.net and https://fast.com show pretty good and reliable results for me.

If your ISP has its own Iperf2/3 servers you could use them as well.

I've found these not not always be accurate for different isps. I have over 4 different isp accounts across different states and the dslreports one is the only one that is accurate across all of them.