I do a good amount of online gaming and have friends ask me how they can tell if their internet service is good enough for online gaming.

This website allows you to see valuable information like download speed, upload speed and ping. This information will help give you an idea about just what you can expect your internet to do. Or if you just would like to know how good your internet is, run there very easy to use website.

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Ralph B. Did a ping test and discovered that may be the reason I am lagging so much and getting fragged left and right... going to upgrade my ISP service and see if my lag goes down. Thanks.

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Jesse G. No problem, nice little test to see if your internet is up to par. I hope you get it all worked out. Congrats on finding good use.

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A very pretty interface to display a common basic test we can all use from time to time, speedtest.net locates a suitable server near you (it's smart enough to figure out where you are) and then runs a ping, download speed and upload speed test. Unusually, you can use the same test, at the same site, anywhere in the world.

I'm on a 6Mbit connection in the SF bay area with SBC Global, which is now AT&T but powered by Yahoo!, if you can follow that. So my result, at 5.15Mbit wasn't too shabby and actually not as bad as I'd expected. My upload speed was 630k which is around 100k below optimal. Ping speed was recorded as 17ms.

Over at speakeasy.net (http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/), where I usually run this test, the result was exactly the same. Though the interface at speedtest.net is slicker, the speakeasy interface is clearer, less fussy. Other than that, either test is fine.

The first difference with speedtest.net is that if you like, you can see the best broadband speeds from anywhere in the world, and discover that even in the backwoods of eastern Europe they get better DSL speeds than I do here, at the cutting edge of web technology. Oh well. The weather's better here, though.

The second difference, and actually way the most interesting one, I didn't realize until I came back to the site some time later and discovered by idly fiddling with the graphics that you can select any destination in the world to run your speed test to and from. In other words, you can pick, say, Ekaterinburg in Russia (ping 266ms) and run the test from California to there and back. This is very, very cool and my rating went up a point straight away. If you have any geek cred at all you'll be playing with this one for a while.

Also see http://www.sitejabber.com/reviews/www.pingtest.net

By far the best, fastest, most reliable website for speed testing and discussing ISP related issues!

ISP providers like you to use this speedtest, because it is hopelessly unrealistic.
Beware.
Thaivisa gave me upload around 100kbps, speedtest.net say 600kbps.
Big difference, and I know speedtest is wrong, as I cannot use my webcam on some sites - too slow for them.

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T N. oh wow, i hadn't thought of this - that it seems to give the provider an advantage though it may be accurate. how do you know it's wrong, tim?

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Tim H. liveJasmin say my bandwidth is too low for webcam work.

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David H. I don't know Tim. I checked Dslreports, speedtest, thaivisa, and timewarner. The odd man out is thaivisa (giving me 300kbps less than the others).

I have tried many test sites and I am not an expert. It confuses me how they can report differences as great as some due, but based on my testing, I have to think dslreports.org will give you the best result.

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Tim H. You may be right, but Thaivisa give me download 9056kbps, upload 201kbps - my package promises 9216 upload, and 1024 upload - they are so close on dpwnload speed...I must do some more websearching.
I do know that the site I need webcam for asks for minimum 512kbps upload, and says that I have not enough bandwidth.

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Always a good site to test speed.

This site is a scandal. Always, AT&T ask me to test on this site. When I have terribly slow and connections dropping and can't even refresh any page and load just a html site, this would test for 2.3mbps to 2.5mbps. Other site tested my speed as 46kbps to 400kbps. But, this site always give the good result.
This should be scandal for some testing takes as long as 2 minutes and still it says 2.5mbps . May be they are only testing the burst speed ?. But, ISP are using it for their advantage.

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Tim H. 100% true

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