Bandwidth Speed Test offers a sure fire way to find out if your ISP’s claims about your connection speed are fact or fiction.
The cost of high speed broadband connections are plummeting, but many of us may be comprising on speed as more people sign up.
An ISP may claim to offer up to 8Mb, but if you’re sharing your connection with lots of people you won't see anything like that amount.
It's down to 'contention ratio', as they say in the trade. If your provider has a contention ratio of 50:1, you could be sharing the equipment at the local BT exchange with up to 50 people at any one time. Odds on your actual connection speed will differ, sometimes dramatically, from the advertised speed.
Bandwidth Speed Test runs a series of simple tests to let you know what your current speed is and how it compares to national and international averages.
Give it a whirl and tell us how you do.
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Sun 8 Oct 2006 at 5:19pm
