Internet Speed Meter - Bandwidth Meter

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This nifty utility - Internet speed meter tests your net connectivity and plots a graph showing how your present connection speed fares against a slew of standard connection speeds. It tells you at a glance - your peak speed and the averaged speed. Whether you have a broadband connection or you work with a dial-up connection, you will need to test the speed of your net connection in a reliable manner. Click on the adjacent image to check your connection speed.

For the more technically-inclined, here is a brief explanation of this bandwidth meter:
We start with a predetermined size of a file - an image in our Internet speed meter - and time the download of this file into your browser. This time is then plotted in a graph showing the instant speed and the averaged calculated speed. This Speed Meter shows at a glance the typical throughput of your connectivity in terms of kilobits per second (and kilobytes per second marked as Characters per second - CPS).

To circumvent the problem of caching by the browser, we use all the tricks we could think of to force the browser to load the data (image) every time you run the bandwidth meter. It is imperative that you use the link at the bottom of the Internet speed meter page to test again. If you click the browser's refresh button, you will end up loading from the cache - which will give a false value - often in excess of a T1 connection.

This Internet Speed Meter is intended to offer an approximate estimate of your connection speed. There are so many other factors which can affect your apparent Net connection speed.