Checking your internet speed

Keeping your broadband speed under a constant check is important, since ISPs quite often tend to charge you for what you do not use. You might not be getting the right download and upload speeds that you were promised by the ISP. However, if your computer is quite old, then the slow broadband speed is probably not the fault of the ISP. Outdate computer hardware is often incompatible with today’s high-speed networks, which severely limits the maximum internet speed you can achieve.

One can check the internet speed in a speed test website.  There are a few steed test websites available for one to check the speed.  These speed test websites have a number of host computers, and act as checkpoints for the internet connection. Most of the speed test website is free of charge.   

You can just search in the web browser for speed test website, and you are given a full list of different speed test website.  Most of these sites are quite reliable.  Maxis is also providing the speed test to the public for free.  The speed measured is the speed between one’s device (pc, notebook or cellphone) and Maxis's local Internet access gateway.  What one required to do is just press on the button to begin the test.  The test provides internet latency time of one’s connection and the average upload and downloads speeds from the internet service provider one uses now. 

But the actual internet connection speeds may vary depending on many factors including wireless signal strength, the performance of the device, the application used, the accessed server performance, utilization of international links and so forth.

Thus, there are a few things one needs to take care of begin stated to test so that you can get a more accurate speed test result.  The beast way to test is when one’s device is connected through an Ethernet cable rather than wife, this method allows one to have minimal data signal losses between the device you are check the speed test and the router.  Next is to ensure there is no other devices are connecting with the router, so that there will only be one single user, which is your owner device.  

One can make sure the device is not having other applications that are using the internet.   With these steps, one can accurately test the speed test of the internet as accurate as possible.

You can repeat this steps 3-4 times at different time so that you can get a better accuracy of speed test result over the few times.  This is because all internet connection will have its high usage and low usage, among your neighbors who also uses the same internet connection as you.  When there are more people online, and using the similar network, there will be slower versus the time when there is no one else using the internet. 

Maxis fibre is one of the best fibre broadband service providers in Malaysia.  It serves to provide fast and stable internet connection through fibre optic cable.