Test your Broadband

As part of the National Broadband Plan, the FCC is providing tools to measure your connection.

The purpose of the Consumer Broadband Test (Beta) is to give consumers additional information about the quality of their broadband connections and to create awareness about the importance of broadband quality in accessing content and services over the internet. Additionally, the FCC may use data collected from the Consumer Broadband Test (Beta), along with submitted street address, to analyze broadband quality and availability on a geographic basis across the United States.

About the Consumer Broadband Test (Beta) – Broadband.gov

FCC Mobile Broadband Test for iPhone, iPod touch, and iPad on the iTunes App Store

Some might wonder at giving the government your address. Don’t be an idiot. Trust me, they already know where you live. You get mail don’t you?

Here’s the background.

Above image my results. Below my iPhone results, left wireless, right 3G, bottom Edge. Ugly!

 

8 thoughts on “Test your Broadband”

  1. Your upload/download rocks, but your latency is a bit high. All in, seems you have a pretty nice pipe to your place.

    My results aren’t as stellar. My latency rocks as I’m less than a mile from the POP. But upload and download can be sketchy. Too damn many people where I live…

  2. Qwest has fiber to the neighborhood but I’m not getting what I should — probably because the phone lines inside the house are a bit raggedy. But as long as I can stream HD movies, I’m good.

  3. I don’t pretend to understand all this on anything more than the most basic level, especially the last two things, but I don’t think my connection is too great. My numbers were:

    download 989 kbps
    upload 502 kbps
    latency 33 ms
    jitter 5 ms

    Regardless, I get by. When I watch video, there’s some lag time for buffering at times, but oh well. This is a radio signal dish type connection way out in the boondocks. It costs $56 a month (with taxes), which blows. Before this, I had Qwest DSL at far better speeds and half the price, but until some new technology comes along, that sort of speed isn’t going to reach us out here in the tules. It’s still worth it not to live in the city.

    BTW, I did have a Wild Blue satellite for several years, in various different locals, but they are such a horrid company to work with, I decided not to continue with them out here. There speeds weren’t much (if any) better, and their prices were even higher.

    1. 21309 kbps Download
      2411 kbps Upload
      45 ms Latency
      1 ms Jitter

      The results are somewhat misleading though because Cox has Powerboost, where they jack up your bandwidth for the first 10 or so seconds of a download. My download speed usually settles down around 14000 kbps, still not shabby!

      I imagine the speeds are going to increase they way storage space has in the last few years. Soon we will be downloading tera byte files like we are now downloading a giga byte file! Star ship Enterprise, here we come!

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