If you’re connecting to the internet via cable, DSL, or an equally fast high-speed connection, but things aren’t AS fast as they could be, or should be, here’s a little free utility to test your internet connection speed. You’ll be able to see the download and upload speed, and examples of how fast you could download files of different sizes at that speed.

My Speed Test Results:

Download: 920,616 bps
Upload: 445,848 bps
QOS: 37%
RTT: 54 ms
MaxPause: 1293 ms

At that speed, I can download a 1MB file in 9 seconds. Don’t know what QOS, RTT and MaxPause mean? Use the speed test terms dictionary found here.