{"id":21668,"date":"2021-06-30T09:59:14","date_gmt":"2021-06-30T13:59:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/?p=21668"},"modified":"2021-06-30T10:08:59","modified_gmt":"2021-06-30T14:08:59","slug":"five-good-internet-speed-testing-sites","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/five-good-internet-speed-testing-sites\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Good Internet Speed Testing Sites"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p><strong><span style=\"font-size: 24pt; font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Five Good Internet Speed Testing Sites<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">If you&#8217;ve ever wondered how fast your Internet connection or whether you&#8217;re getting the speeds you&#8217;re paying for, you need a reliable way to check your Internet connection speed. There are dozens of sites that provide speed tests &#8211; but these are five we&#8217;ve tested and found to be reliable.<\/span><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/fast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Fast.com<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Netflix&#8217;s Fast.com is our go-to internet speed checker. It&#8217;s quick and clean and gives your download speed quickly. There are no ads, no gimmicks, no flashing lights, just your speed&#8230; and if you need it, some detailed info about your upload speed, latency, and more. If you&#8217;re looking for a quick and easy way to check your internet connection speed, Fast.com is it.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">You can use it from anywhere in the world. And while it&#8217;s not designed to test your ISP&#8217;s connection speed, the test results we get are comparable to other speed tests without the ads and bells &amp; whistles.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/fast.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">Try it right now<\/span><\/strong><\/a>.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">My speed according to Fast.com:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/fastcom.png\" alt=\"Speed testing sites... Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"589\" height=\"386\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/speedtest.xfinity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Comcast&#8217;s Xfinity xFi speed test<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Do you think Comcast would make your speed look slower if you were connecting to it using a competitor&#8217;s service? That&#8217;s what some think. While it may be designed to save Comcast from getting support calls from customers about their internet speed, we didn&#8217;t find any bias in the test results. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">The results we got from Comcast&#8217;s speed test were consistent with other speed tests we&#8217;ve tried. Comcast&#8217;s speed test is designed for American users only. If you&#8217;re in the USA, <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/speedtest.xfinity.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">try it and see what you think<\/span><\/a>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">My speed according to Comcast\/Xfinity:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/xfinity.png\" alt=\"Internet speed tests, Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"590\" height=\"285\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandwidthplace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"font-size: 18pt;\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif;\">Bandwidth Place<\/span><\/strong><\/span><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bandwidth Place provides you with a clean, uncluttered speed test. The site based on HTML5 and not Flash or JavaScript. It nice looking and it&#8217;s quite simple to use. It may have ads, but I didn&#8217;t see any.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Bandwidth Place can be used by everyone, no matter where they live.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Try it for yourself &#8230;. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bandwidthplace.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">https:\/\/www.bandwidthplace.com\/<\/span><\/a><\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">My speed results from Bandwidth Place&#8230;<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/bandwidth.png\" alt=\"Internet Speed Tests - Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"590\" height=\"278\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/speedof.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">SpeedOf.me<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SpeedOf.me claims to be the most accurate online bandwidth test. I don&#8217;t know about that, but it&#8217;s fun to watch the graphs move as it shows real-time connection speeds.\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">SpeedOf.me works no matter where you live. But it does have an ad or two, which I didn&#8217;t notice until the speed test was done.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/speedof.me\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\"><strong>Try it here<\/strong><\/span><\/a><strong>.<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">My test results from SpeedOf.me:<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/speedofme.png\" alt=\"Internet speed tests, Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"589\" height=\"304\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 18pt;\">Ookla Speedtest.net<\/span><\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">Ookla&#8217;s speed test is the most popular speed testing site. More people use it than any other. And, a while back, we became disillusioned with it because it had so many ads and distractions. But things have changed and now the ads are subdued. Ookla&#8217;s speed test is still the most recommended. You can use it from anywhere in the world. <strong><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"text-decoration: underline;\">You can try it here<\/span><\/a>.\u00a0<\/strong><\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; font-size: 14pt;\">My test results from Ookla&#8217;s Speedtest.net.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/thundercloud.net\/infoave\/images\/2021\/speedtest.png\" alt=\"Internet Speed Tests, Cloudeight InfoAve\" width=\"589\" height=\"275\" \/><\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">You can see that all my test results were similar. In five different speed tests from five different speed testing sites, my results varied only by about 6 Mbps&#8230; from 72 to 78.45. <\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-size: 14pt; font-family: helvetica, arial, sans-serif;\">Now you know five places to go when you want to know your Internet connection speed.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; &nbsp; Five Good Internet Speed Testing Sites If you&#8217;ve ever wondered how fast your Internet connection or whether you&#8217;re getting the speeds you&#8217;re paying for, you need a reliable way to check your Internet connection speed. There are dozens of sites that provide speed tests &#8211; but these are five we&#8217;ve tested and found to be reliable.\u2026 <span class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/five-good-internet-speed-testing-sites\/\">Read More &raquo;<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":20782,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2883],"tags":[4238],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668"}],"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=21668"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21672,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21668\/revisions\/21672"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/20782"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21668"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21668"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.thundercloud.net\/infoave\/new\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21668"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}