Broadband speed test

petlew · ‎30-08-2007

Is there a speed test that doesn't require Adobe Flash Player?

The Plusnet one does, so does the BTW Performance test that I have on this PC.

Keep on hearing that Flash Player is full of security holes.

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rongtw · ‎01-12-2010

Have you tried the TBB one HTML

https://www.thinkbroadband.com/speedtest

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TheRoadCrew · ‎14-05-2017

@petlew wrote:

Is there a speed test that doesn't require Adobe Flash Player?

speedtest.net

Web

or

trc@chromebook:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 12.093 ms
Download: 51.66 Mbit/s
Upload: 3.02 Mbit/s

petlew · ‎30-08-2007

Thank you.

@TheRoadCrew It certainly works. Noticed it was a beta version. Also noticed the legacy site requires Adobe Flash.

Haven't tried the other two posted yet.

Experience; is something you gain, just after you needed it most.

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VileReynard · ‎01-09-2007

Try http://speedof.me/

No Flash or Java & doesn't appeared to be bothered by ad blockers.

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Strat · ‎14-04-2007

....Although when I run it...

I believe it is Kaspersky doing the blocking.

Not complaining about the results though

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gleneagles · ‎02-08-2007

But how accurate
are speed checkers ? Having tried several including those mentioned above my download speed has varied from 22Mb to 32Mb.

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TheRoadCrew · ‎14-05-2017

@gleneagles wrote:

Having tried several including those mentioned above my download speed has varied from 22Mb to 32Mb.

Any number of factors can affect recorded download speeds, including:

Time of day

Distance from server

Proximity to router if you're using WiFi.

VileReynard · ‎01-09-2007

You wouldn't use wifi for a speedtest.

However, any one speedtest should be consistent between tests, even if different speedcheckers vary between themselves.

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TheRoadCrew · ‎14-05-2017

VileReynard wrote:

You wouldn't use wifi for a speedtest.

The speedtest result I posted previously was done on WiFi:

trc@chromebook:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 12.093 ms
Download: 51.66 Mbit/s
Upload: 3.02 Mbit/s

In part because, unless I believe there's a problem with the service, the results are unimportant and in part because the result I get with a device using ethernet

trc@bunsen:~$ speedtest-cli --simple
Ping: 12.283 ms
Download: 52.26 Mbits/s
Upload: 2.97 Mbits/s

isn't neccessarily significantly better.

YMMV