How to check the speed of your Internet Connection

when I first started Using Internet, broadband was not like now in India. Dial-up connections from mobile and by BSNL were the rage in those days and the fastest economically feasible connection available to a normal user was the 128 kbps (Kilobits per second) ISDN connection, while the dial-ups offered a measly 56.6 kbps. India has come along way since. Now, broadband connections offering atleast 7.2 Mbps (Megabits per second) are a must. It's time of 3G and 4G Now.

However, one thing has remained unchanged. Even then we never got the advertised speed, nor do we get it now. There are a few websites  which run a test on your internet connection and tell you your exact download and upload speed and your ping rate, which will be usefull to you to compare two connections.


You can Try the ADSL speed tester service offered to BSNL Broadband Users. Just go to speedtester.bsnl.co.in.

Just follow the link and start the speed test by clicking the link.

You can also try www.testmyspeed.com.

Click on Start speed test and wait for the Results. It tests the download and upload speed of your internet connection and produces the results

The next site is, www.speedtest.net.

Click BEGIN TEST to start the test.

The last site on our list is www.bandwithplace.com.

Click the START TEST to start.

Please Note that Speedtest & ISP’s use bits per second while download agents/programs use bytes per second. Because there are 8 bits to a byte, 1.2 megabytes a second sounds right. So, calculate wisely before blaming your ISP.
In simple language, you should get 1/8th of the advertised bandwidth means 2MBPS connection should give 0.25 MegaBytes / sec = 0.25 KiloBytes / sec.
With the help of these websites you can know exactly what speed you are getting. Do please share with us how many of you are getting the advertised 3 Mbps.