Test Internet Speed Website

 

Since the technology is booming these days, everyone is ready to take equal part in it. As of now, the most fascinating form of technology that we have witnessed so far is the term “Internet”. Internet has revolutionized the entire globe.

Today in the market there are lots of Internet providers or you can say Internet Service Providers (ISP). However, there data plans do vary from one another. By now you must have been aware of the fact, that getting an Internet connection is no big deal these days. What matters is the speed that you are getting.

Now, depending upon the type of connection the speed will vary, I mean whether  it’s a Broadband connection or a leased connection. So, let’s say that your service provider assures you to provide 50 Mbps of speed. But, are you getting the assured one? So, You should check the download and upload rates frequently. That will keep you informed about the state of your connection

To test the same we will check out some Internet connection speed Tester websites that provides you an opportunity to test your actual Internet speed.

How does the internet connection speed test work?

The internet connection speed test measures that amount of time that it takes to download and upload a file. This is a non-obtrusive test and the test determines your internet connection speed based on the amount of time that it takes to upload and download the file. If you find that you have a slow connection to the internet, you can determine the best time for you to download or upload files by keeping a history of your internet connection speeds to help determine when you have the fastest internet connection speeds.

Internet Speed Test Website List:

Visualware – Internet Speed Tester Website

To use this internet speed test website you first need to mention your location, which you can choose from the given world map. Apparently, this website provides most comprehensive information when compared to all the internet speed test websites. Through this website, you will get to know the download and upload speed, round trip time; it also shows quality of internet connection. You can also visualize the speed in terms of graph, followed by the TCP delay, and more.

Internet Speed Test – Internet Connection Speed Tester  Website

The internet speed test will show you the results of the fastest upload and download burst rates during your internet speed test from your location to the location of the test server you choose. TCP/IP degrades over distance so choose the server closest to you when performing the internet speed test. Your test results may vary at different times of the day due to network congestion, etc.

To get a good understanding of your bandwidth burst averages, run the test at different times of the day. The internet speed test can also be used as a tool to help determine if there is something wrong with your broadband link. If you’re favorite web site is loading slow, you can come here and do an internet speed test and know if it’s your link or the server where the web site resides. If your test results are comparable to past results, then you know it’s not your line having a problem.

TestMySpeed – Test Internet Connection Website

The internet connection speed test measures that amount of time that it takes to download and upload a file. This is a non-obtrusive test and the test determines your internet connection speed based on the amount of time that it takes to upload and download the file. If you find that you have a slow connection to the internet, you can determine the best time for you to download or upload files by keeping a history of your internet connection speeds to help determine when you have the fastest internet connection speeds.

SpeedTest.Net – Broadband Speed Test Website

SpeedTest.Net is another most popular internet speed test website. It delivers you the quite accurate results of your internet speed. The most important feature of this service is that it auto-detects your location, and performs the speed test from the closest server to your location. However, you are free to choose the other server to test speed of internet. It also makes you aware of the both the download as well as upload speed. This gives you better accuracy of internet speed.

Perhaps, these websites will let you figure out the actual speed of your Internet, meanwhile you will also get some idea regarding as how you’re Internet actually works. So, enjoy!!!

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Optimizing IE 8 from tweak registry

 

If you’re using the Internet Explorer as your default browser, you will definitely feel that a lot of changes compared with previous versions. The default settings of IE 8 is more faster and efficient, and also create a security more stronger than before.

But actually the default settings with using tweak registry can be optimize to get more faster access. And by doing custom tweak registry settings in IE 8, your internet connections limit will be increase and also create a custom menu style on default previous versions of IE.

Increase The Connection Limits

At default, the number of files can be download simultaneously in IE 8 is limited to 6. Actually you can increase the number up to 10 at one time, it’s useful if using the faster internet connections. To increase it number, you can configure from registry editor.

Open the registry editor from Run menu by clicking Windows + R and type regedit. Then find the key of HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Internet Settings. At the right window, find DWORD MaxConnectionsPerServer and MaxConnectionsPer1_0Server.

If the DWORD are not found, you can create new with the same name such as above. After that, change or create the default value to 10. Then save and close the registry editor and restart your computer to take the effects.

Move the Menu Bar above the Address Bar

At default, address bar in IE 8 browser are appeared in bottom, you can move this menu at the top of address bar with the same way from registry editor. Find the registry key HKEY_CURRENT_USER\Software\Microsoft\Internet Explorer\Toolbar\WebBrowser. At the right window, double click on DWORD ITBar7Position and change the default value from 0 into 1. Save and close your registry editor, then restart your computer to take the effects.

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Speed up Internet surfs with this addons

Mozilla Firefox as a most used and favorite browser has an advantage is called addons for supporting and improving features of Firefox. There are many addons that can be used for users, and some addons can give you to optimize and more faster for surfing websites or download files on Internet.

I’ve tried all these addons and feel surfing on internet is becoming more quickly and practice. There addons is easy to use because it has user-friendly interfaces. Until now, my computer and browser still safe and works well (you can see from the number of downloads). Here is the addons list if you wanna to know…

Fast Dial — The useful addons to help you accelerate go to your favorite sites with forms thumbnail of display interface. Has an user-friendly interface like an Opera, you can configure the favorite site in the thumbnail lists with easy steps.

Tab Mix Plus — The addons than can enhances the firefox’s tab browsing capability. Many useful features are included at here such as duplicating tabs, controlling tab focus, tab clicking options, undo closed tabs and windows, full-featured session manager, and much more.

FlashGot — The Addons that can allows you to download all files over the internet with easy and fast. Download all the links, movies, and audio clips of a page at the maximum speed with single click, using the most popular, lightweight, and reliable external download managers.

Because many and various download manager softwares, I recommended to see the lists of download manager tools are supports and integrate with this addons are available from official site at http://flashgot.net.

FasterFox — The addons that can optimize the speed loading website pages. Allows you to tweak many network and rendering settings such as simultaneous connections, pipelining, cache, DNS cache, and initial paint delay.

Dynamic speed increase can be obtained with the unique prefetching mecahism, which recycles idle bandwidth by silently loading and caching all of the links on the page you’re browsing.

Tab Scope — Addons for Firefox which displays a popup on tabs and enables you to view and navigate like zoom, back / forward / reload / stop on the popup without having to open and go on a tabbed browser. You can also set the size width and height of the preview tab. The addons is very suitable for who often open multiple tabs at once.

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Most favorite used Mozilla Firefox themes

 

Mozilla Firefox as the most favorite used web browser tool provide many interesting addons and themes that can make more pretty interfaces. Sometimes ago, I’ve discussed tips list of addons that can optimize your surfing on the Internet. This time I will try to give information about Firefox themes that has become a favorite of loyal users.

Personas — The addons that allows to further enhance the default style more beauty as you whises. There are many theme galleries that are available and free to use. Theme appearance of changes are included of header and footer, and supporting Windows, Mac, and Linux OS.

Mac Theme — Firefox with Mac operating system interfaces. As we all known, Mac OS has an nice and cool interfaces. The theme package including navigations, scrollbars, buttons, ribbons, pop up messages, search, and other default Firefox features.

TwentyTen — Firefox theme that can make interface like Ms Office 2010. Has an Aero Glass effects, it’s will be awesome if with Windows 7 operating system. Exactly you can choose the Microsoft’s menus as you want such as Outlook, Word, Excel, InfoPath, PowerPoint, SharePoints, OneNote, and others.

To install Firefox theme just simply clicking install on the addons page. And if installation process is finished, restart your Firefox browser to take the effects.

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Backup & Restore bookmarks Mozilla Firefox

 

Mozilla Firefox as a most favorite browser web applications have many tips and tricks for optimization, you can read more about tips & tricks browsers. At this time, I’ll try to share tutorial how to create backup & restore bookmarks on Firefox browser without help from any third-party softwares.

This feature is handy, for simple example case. If someday you want to uninstall operating system on the computer (has the effect of eliminating all data storage), and then if you want to install Firefox again, you don’t need to bother doing bookmarks all over again because it already has a backup.

Backup Bookmarks

After open the Firefox browser, click at the “Bookmarks > Organize Bookmarks” menu. You can use keyboard button  “Ctrl + Shift + B” as the shortcuts. After the library window appear, and it will shows menu default like “Bookmarks Toolbar, Menu, and Unsorted Bookmarks” (you may backup some or more specific). Now you can click on “Import and Backup” button and click “Backup” again.

Then the “Bookmarks backup filename” dialog box appears on your window. Create your own name for this Firefox backup file. Save your file backup on your PC, and now you’ve been created Firefox bookmarks backup.

Restore Bookmarks

Actually, the steps to make a restore are not different from making backup. Go to the “Organize Bookmarks” and after Library window appear, click at the “Import and Backup > Restore > Choose File…” option.

Select your backup bookmarks file from your PC and click Open and OK button. After doing that close the Library window, and your bookmarks will be visible on the Bookmarks menu.

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