Broadband Speed and VoIP Test

[Taehoon]

When testing out my new True QoS system here at the home office I came across a broadband connection analysis tool. The tool designed by Ookla Net Metrics has a huge selection of geographically dispersed testing servers. During the use of this tool it provided me the time I needed for tweaking and tuning my QoS system further. Since the tool downloads and uploads data it naturally will degrade your performance online (at peak).



My performance at peak:
Fastest Download:
8797 kb/s
Fastest Upload:
2343 kb/s

My performance normally:



Update: Also found another website which offers VoIP testing by Visualware.

Test your Internet Connection for VoIP Performance

After installing the MyVoIPSpeed PC software found it uses a non standard port in which you may have to enable DMZ temporarily until the test is complete.

Update: Found another excellent website. Testmy.net Broadband Community

Example Output from testmy.net:

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:::.. testmy.net test results ..:::
Download Connection is:: 6782 Kbps about 6.78 Mbps (tested with 12160 kB)
Download Speed is:: 828 kB/s
Upload Connection is:: 407 Kbps about 0.4 Mbps (tested with 1013 kB)
Upload Speed is:: 50 kB/s
Tested From:: http://testmy.net (Server 1)
Test Time:: 2007/03/20 - 10:45pm
D-Validation Link:: <snip>
U-Validation Link:: <snip>
User Agent:: Opera/9.10 (Windows NT 5.1; U; en) [!]

References:

• Speedtest.net home page
• Ookla Net Metrics
• Testmy.net
• VoIP-Info.org

[Taehoon]

Updated: 07.21.2010