Skip to main content

Download Speed Check if the ISP is Limiting



Do you have a fairly good Internet connection at home or at office? Is it regular websites load pretty quickly in your browser? But what happen when you are watching video on YouTube or download files through torrent then Speed seems to go down 

If you found that this change in speed pattern quite frequently, than it’s possible that your ISP may be rate limiting your traffic for certain bandwidth intensive operations. 


For  an example, if your average download speed is 100kB/s, YouTube video could be streaming at a speed of 40 kB/s due to rate limiting by the your ISP.

Is your ISP is limiting your download speeds?


To check run the Glasnost test in your browser to find out whether or not your ISP is following any such tactic to manipulate your download speeds for specific sites.
Glasnost test uses a Java applet platform to compare your regular download speed with the speed at which flash videos get streamed for your system. Other than videos it can also compare the speed for email attachments, normal HTTP based files transfers, and also the torrents and binary downloads from Usenet Servers.

ISP s may be limiting speeds only during peak hours, so you should consider running these tests at different times of the day.

Note: Stop all other downloads that might be running in the background for more accurate results.

Labels

Labels:

Popular posts from this blog

A Chinese Facebook is coming and will make Huge Censorship Concessions

A Facebook lobbyist recently said that perhaps the site was allowing too Much Free Speech in countries that were not used to the luxury. The Facebook-China rumor mill has been churning for years now, but it’s becoming increasingly obvious that the site will launch a censorship-friendly option in the country. As Per the Information , Facebook Will Parter With Baidu ( Baidu - Chinese search engine ) and launch a separate site, although all users will have the ability to connect to it – but not without some red tape. “ When Facebook users outside China connect with users inside China, sources said they will need to click through a warning that any material visible to Chinese users may also be visible to the Chinese government .” China has been accused of hacking Gmail accounts of Chinese dissidents , so if you’re trying to connect to Facebook China, it can be assumed your content is being monitored. The censorship issue has been at the heart of Facebook’s inability to break thr...
Read more

Free Email Alerts on Mobile Using Way2SMS

In this post I m giving you a tip to get access to your emails anywhere anytime , without using any high end GPRS mobile phones or Blackberries . But just receiving your mails as SMS on to your mobile handsets. And its the Way2SMS service thats gonna help you deliver your mails to your mobile. Once this service is activated you don’t require any GPRS, EDGE or WAP services for accessing your mails on mobile. And to add more spice to service you can easily add multiple email accounts like Gmail or Yahoo or limit time intervals for receiving your mails. It Will take Max 5 Min ... Follow The Steps :: Step1 : Register and login to www.way2SMS.com . Step2 : Register your mobile number. Step3 : As soon as you complete the registration you will receive a Unique Verification ID on your mobile as SMS, complete the verification process. Step4: Login to Your Account . Step5: Go To DashBoard tab On Right Side Go to Settings ----> then Go To Mail Alerts Click on given Click Here to Activa...
Read more

Best Funny Firefox Tricks

Firefox is one of best browser in World and Till now More than 100 Millions Have Donwload the Latest Version Of Mozilla (Mozilla Firefox..) ( To Watch Current Total Number of Downloads : Go Here ).And there are some funny tricks that you can do with your firefox browser. I will also recommend you to read Best Funny Google Tricks to explore the funny side of google. These will not harm your browser and they are tested in the latest version of firefox i.e firefox 4.0 ... Here are Some Funny Firefox Tricks To perform these tricks open your firefox browser and copy/paste the following in your address bar chrome://global/content/alerts/alert.xul This will show you dancing firefox.Your firefox window will automatically popup anywhere at screen. · chrome://browser/content/browser.xul This will open another firefox within in a new tab.So you will have firefox within firefox. · chrome://browser/content/preferences/preferences.xul This will open firefox options dialog box in new tab. · ...
Read more