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Is there a reliable internet speed test

I'm trying to test my internet speed and am getting very different results, ranging from 1/4 Mbps to 8 Mbps. I've used CNET, McAfee, Verizon, InternetFrog and a 3Gspeed test i found through apple.

Is there a reliable source i can use?

rngsudu

hi,
Comparing to test this is the site which I use always which is giving reliable measurement

http://www.speedtest.net/

Dave Baldwin

rngsudu's suggestion of http://www.speedtest.net/ looks pretty good because you can compare between different servers. There's a big difference between them. The variation you got is not surprising.

edbedb

Are you sure you are not comparing Mbps to MBps?
1 MBps (megabyte per second) = 8 mbps (megabits per second)

Irwin W.

You can also use www.bandwidthplace.com

What is the problem you are having other than trying to determine connectivity speed?

G-Warren

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Thanks for the feedback. I'm downgrading my cable internet and wanted to get a baseline of what I currently am getting. I believe I'm supposed to have a connection up to 8 Mbps.

I ran it on speedtest.net on two different servers and got 11.9 and 21.51 Mbps. Now i'm even more confused.

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