{"id":16164,"date":"2019-01-17T15:05:25","date_gmt":"2019-01-17T20:05:25","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=16164"},"modified":"2019-01-17T15:05:25","modified_gmt":"2019-01-17T20:05:25","slug":"check-your-internet-speed-fast","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/check-your-internet-speed-fast\/","title":{"rendered":"Check Your Internet Speed FAST!"},"content":{"rendered":"

Check Your Internet Speed FAST!<\/strong><\/span><\/h1>\n

There are many reliable (or fairly reliable) ways to check your Internet connection speed. Probably dozens of them. <\/span><\/p>\n

The easiest way is to type Speedtest in the address bar of Chrome or Firefox and press Enter. You’ll see some information and a “Run Speed Test” button.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

Now, my ISP told me recently that this particular test is not very accurate, but I think that’s because it didn’t say what he wanted it to say. He recommend Ocala Speed Test at\u00a0https:\/\/speedtest.net\/<\/a>\u00a0. But that site has added so many ads and extraneous stuff, it’s getting awfully cluttered.<\/span><\/p>\n

Then, just today,\u00a0 we discovered our site of the week. It’s owned by Netflix. Is that a good thing or bad thing? We don’t know, but one thing for sure, they don’t need to cover this site in ads, they just raise the price of Netflix. OK. Commentary out of the way…<\/span><\/p>\n

The next time you want to check your Internet speed quickly and accurately, without any clutter, you won’t find any cleaner, quicker way than by\u00a0visiting Fast.com<\/a>.<\/span><\/p>\n

A picture is worth 1000 words or can launch a thousand ships? Anyway, we’ll show you:<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

What can I say? I can certainly read that. While that’s only my download speed, it’s what most of us want to see when we want to know how fast our connection is. But, if you want to see more details like your upload speed, no problem. Just click “Show more info”.<\/span><\/p>\n

\"Cloudeight<\/span><\/p>\n

You’ll see my download speed is 88 Mbps and my upload speed is 11 Mbps. And just for the record, Mbps is not the same as MBps. Mbps is “Megabits per second” not “Megabytes per second”. So, what’s the difference? We are thrilled you asked:<\/span><\/p>\n

A Megabit is 1\/8 as big as a Megabyte. This means that to download a 1 MB file in 1 second you would need a download speed\u00a0 of 8 Mbps. Mbps means megabits per second – not megabytes per second.<\/span><\/p>\n

But let’s not get all caught up in this stuff.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Today’s site pick is FAST – and you can get there FAST by clicking this link<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Check Your Internet Speed FAST! There are many reliable (or fairly reliable) ways to check your Internet connection speed. Probably dozens of them. The easiest way is to type Speedtest in the address bar of Chrome or Firefox and press Enter. You’ll see some information and a “Run Speed Test” button. Now, my ISP told me recently that\u2026 Read More »<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[151,1433,2883],"tags":[2908,466,1197,2907,2909],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16164"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":16165,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16164\/revisions\/16165"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16164"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16164"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16164"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}