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Is there a speed test website that is lightweight without shiny graphics?

  • 15-07-2011 9:09pm
    #1
    Turkana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭


    I'm having trouble with my connection, and I can barely open speedtest.net as it so shiny and hi-tech and flash heavy.

    Is there a less bandwidth intensive website that tests for speed? The ones I've found have too much graphics.


Comments

  • #2
    aligator_am
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,598 ✭✭✭aligator_am


    Who's your ISP? is it landline based or mobile? or UPC?


  • #3
    KeithM89_old
    Closed Accounts Posts: 12,806 ✭✭✭✭KeithM89_old


    Moved from After Hours


  • #4
    tuxy
    Closed Accounts Posts: 14,983 ✭✭✭✭tuxy


    If you just want to measure download speed I would go to ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/ and download any large file.


  • #5
    LPHeadstrong
    Registered Users Posts: 62 ✭✭LPHeadstrong


    I find IrishISPtest.com good! Doesn't seem as flashy as Speedtest but I think it's better


  • #6
    Turkana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭Turkana


    I actually want to test a mobile internet usb thingy... in Africa. It's painfully slow, and speedtest.net won't even open. But all the sites have stupid flash animations of a speedometer.


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  • #7
    long_b
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,945 ✭✭✭long_b


    Www.dslreports.com/mspeed


  • #8
    jor el
    Closed Accounts Posts: 16,713 ✭✭✭✭jor el


    If speedtest.net won't even load, then why bother to measure the speed? You are pretty much guaranteed that it's so slow it won't even register.


  • #9
    Turkana
    Closed Accounts Posts: 99 ✭✭Turkana


    Because I want to measure the speed.


  • #10
    blorg
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 15,994 ✭✭✭✭blorg


    Speedtest can be difficult to use on slow connections. They have an Android app which works better and I use on my phone. That one long_b posted looks very good and will work on a computer. There is arguably a bigger difference in perception at the lower end of speeds than there is between say 256-512kb/s and any speed above that.


  • #11
    roast
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,320 ✭✭✭roast


    tuxy wrote: »
    If you just want to measure download speed I would go to ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/ and download any large file.

    Just do this.


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  • #12
    MHP
    Registered Users Posts: 490 ✭✭MHP


    http://homepage.ntlworld.com/robin.d.h.walker/speedtest.html


  • #13
    mwrf
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 523 ✭✭✭mwrf


    tuxy wrote: »
    If you just want to measure download speed I would go to ftp://ftp.heanet.ie/ and download any large file.

    Better still, Fire up multiple download streams and add them together.


  • #14
    Freddie59
    Closed Accounts Posts: 6,679 ✭✭✭Freddie59


    try speedtest.upc.ie


  • #15
    Onikage
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 1,451 ✭✭✭Onikage


    Can't open speedtest.net? Then your connection is so slow that it is likely to fall within the margin of error anyway.


  • #16
    vibe666
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 13,016 ✭✭✭✭vibe666


    mwrf wrote: »
    Better still, Fire up multiple download streams and add them together.
    if his connection is so slow that speedtest.net won't even load for him then i'm fairly confident that multiple large file downloads are pretty pointless.

    much better to get a locally installed bandwidth monitor like DUmeter or something like that and just download something and see how fast it goes.


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