Did you know the top 5 countries with the fastest broadband are Japan, Sweden, Latvia, Romania, and Bulgaria? How fast is your broadband? Your ISP may tell you that you’ve got “1.5mb/sec”, but that’s a theoretic maximum. It’s unlikely your speed is that fast. Also, that theoretic “1.5 megabits per second” is just the download speed. How fast can you upload files? There’s a 99.9999999% chance that it’s nowhere near the download speed (think 1/5 to 1/4 of the download speed).

How fast is your connection? Find out at SpeedTest.net. Just choose a server and it will conduct a couple of tests. Your download and upload speeds will be outputted at the end, along with the latency (important if your a gamer).

My ISP advertises 1MB/sec download speeds (and it costs $45!), and I was amazed to get the following result from SpeedTest.net

Note that the speed will vary depending on several factors, such as how many other users are online.

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