You are paying to your service provider every month for your internet connection. Do you know whether you are getting the download and upload speeds that you are meant to get? Why not cross check whether your ISP is providing what you are paying it for? Do a free test of your broadband connection speed at a speed test site. Speedtest is a service of web-diagnostics from Ookla. Ookla is a company that builds and operates easy to use web applications that provide network diagnostics for things like connection speed and latency testing. All you need to do is to go to their site and click on the test button and within less than two minutes a diagnostic report is given by speedtest. The report will include your connections average download speed, upload speed, ping and how much time it would take to download a 3 minute MP3 file, a 35 MB video clip and a movie of 800 MB. Screenshots of the results that I got are as under.

Speed test results

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The results compare correctly to my broadband speed of 256 Kb/s from my service provider ETISALAT (Emirates Telecommunication Company). I do take about 8 hours to download an 800mb movie. However in terms of comparison speeds I was surprised to find out that my average download speed of 0.25 Mb/s is way below the Asia average download speed of 4.08 Mb/s and way below the global average of 5.33 Mb/s (screenshot not enclosed). The UAE average download speed is also at 1.55 Mb/s. So what does it mean…? Is it about time I upgrade my connection speed? Is 256 Kb/s is very slow…?

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