Testing Broadband speed

How to check BSNL broadband speed ?

• Download Speed: this is the Internet speed at which files are downloaded to your computer. 
• Upload Speed: the speed at which you can upload files at locations on the Internet such as uploading email attachments. This is known as the upload speed.

This article shows how to measure internet speed and it sheds.
Many factors have an impact on how fast or slow your internet connection is

You can measure your internet speed connection using

1. Standard BSNL Bandwidth Meter

2. BSNL NOC Utility Portal

3. From BSNL Karnataka Server 

4. From Speed Test Site

Method II

Download this utility it counts all packets send & received
 "NETMETER"  

OR
Download this utility with more features ..  NETWORX

Method III

How to check the speed?

 Download many files from good different servers like microsoft, zdnet etc
or download files simultaneously from the given links & sum up the data rate.

or

 Download Apples iTunes software  and check the data rate

Download Link 2

Download any file from here : http://serverninjas.com/sn/

Then check  the upload/download data rate in Netmeter graph or Networx Speedometer

Please note that the speed indicates the traffic across the network interface card , it includes background traffic like auto update , traffic created bytrojan virus attack ,LAN traffic etc.
Hence if a traffic is noticed, even when not using the internet then probably the computer is infected with trojan.
Warning: Downloading consumes your bandwidth ,hence after the test , STOP or cancel the download.

Download a file using torrent is the best method to check speed.

Troubleshooting for low internet speed Click here

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