Test speed

You may be wondering about the speed of your home network or Internet connection. With various programs you can measure the speed of your external drive, USB stick, home network and internet connection!

1. Network

Curious about the speed of your network equipment? DownTester, gives the answer. The program tests the download speed at which files move from 'a location' to your computer. These files may be on a web server, but also locally on your hard drive, USB stick, external drive or network drive (NAS). Thus, DownTester provides multifunctional tool to test download speed. Start DownTester and open File, Add file (add a file). Browse to the file you want to use to test the download speed. DownTester lists the file. You can add multiple files from different locations to the list if you want. Start the test now via File, Start downloads test. The results appear immediately on the screen.

DownTester tests the speed at which files move from your external hard drive, your NAS, or an Internet location to your computer.

2. USB stick

The importance of a fast USB stick only becomes clear if you have a slow stick and have to wait a long time if you want to copy a few files 'just as quickly'. With USBDeview you can easily check how fast your USB stick works. Make sure the USB stick is connected to your computer and start USBDeview. All USB devices that have ever been on your computer are displayed. Note that the menu Options, Display disconnected devices is not active, so the list is limited to the devices that are currently connected. Your USB stick should now be easy to find. See you in the column drive letter the drive letter of your stick, then you can be sure it is the correct one. Right click on your USB stick and choose speed test. Confirm with Start test and wait. The maximum read and write speed (read and write) now appears on the screen. With the button Publish test results If desired, send the data to Usbspeed. Here you will find an overview of the speed of more than seven thousand USB sticks.

USBDeview tests the maximum read and write speed of USB sticks, and can publish the result on the internet.

3. Internet connection

There are many different web pages where you can have your internet speed measured. The most beautiful website is SpeedTest. This site works intuitively, is beautifully designed and provides good information. SpeedTest's test often works best with a server close to you. SpeedTest automatically finds out which one it is, shows its location and allows you to choose a different test server. Download speed indicates how fast the connection is between a server on the Internet and your computer. This is important when downloading large files. The upload speed is exactly the opposite, it shows the speed at which you send data from your computer to a server on the Internet. Finally, there is the ping test, which measures the response time of the server. The latter is important for online games, for example, and you can have this reaction time tested in detail on PingTest.