Speakeasy Speed Test - Measure Your Available Bandwidth
Use the Speakeasy link below to measure your Internet download and upload speeds.
True Blade staff have recorded speeds (below) for the ISPs and locations where we have run the test.
On the Speakeasy site, you can select servers in different locations; use whichever Speakeasy server is closest to your physical location at that time.
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Speed Test for Extreme Techies
True Blade's Speakeasy and Argonne National Labs
Internet Speed Test Results
| Date | ISP & Location |
Download speed (Kbps) | Upload speed (Kbps) | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2006-03-20 | Verizon FiOS Ellicott City, Maryland, USA |
15,178 | 1,724 | I was an early Verizon FiOS customer. I believe this is the fastest speed I had ever recorded from this test. The service was advertised as 15,000 / 2,000. |
| 2006-04-11 | Unknown ISP Comfort Inn, Virginia Beach, Virginia, USA |
1,307 |
1,117 |
Free Wi-Fi from the hotel. Looks like a T-1. |
| 2006-07-05 |
Verizon Wireless Starbucks, Route 40, Ellicott City, Maryland, USA |
688 | 77 |
|
| 2006-07-05 | T-Mobile Wi-Fi Starbucks, Route 40, Ellicott City, Maryland, USA |
1,414 | 631 |
Wanted to see if the paid Wi-Fi service was much better than using my Verizon Wireless service. |
| 2006-07-14 |
Daily Grind Coffee Shop Fulton, Maryland, USA |
2,812 |
642 |
Using their free Wi-Fi. I believe I was the only user at the time. |
| 2007-01-28 |
Verizon FiOS Staten Island, New York, USA |
10,376 |
1,813 |
|
| 2007-01-28 |
Verizon Wireless Staten Island, New York, USA |
1,085 |
117 |
The download speed for this service seems to have greatly improved in the last six months. |
| 2007-01-29 |
Verizon Business DSL New York, NY |
5,919 |
727 |
Average of two tests with no other users on the circuit. |
| 2007-01-29 |
Time Warner Business Cable New York, NY |
6,882 |
490 |
Average of two tests with no other users on the circuit. |
| 2007-02-01 | Verizon FiOS Kensington, Maryland, USA |
15,487 |
1,788 | Advertised service is 15,000 / 2,000. |
| 2007-02-13 | Cogent Fiber New York, NY |
19,628 |
4,002 | Inaccurate result. Cogent is the first ISP I've tested with more bandwidth than the Speakeasy test can measure. The advertised bandwidth is 100,000 / 100,000. |
| 2007-02-14 | Cogent Fiber New York, NY |
37,531 |
4,907 | More accurate result. Again, the advertised bandwidth is 100,000 / 100,000. |
| 2007-02-18 |
Verizon Wireless Tarrytown, New York, USA |
1,190 |
125 |
The fastest speeds I've ever recorded for Verizon Wireless Internet. |
| 2007-03-10 |
Verizon Wireless Flushing, New York, USA |
533 |
78 |
My first test with new Verizon Wireless hardware in a new laptop: a V640 ExpressCard in an HP Pavilion dv2210us running Windows Vista Home Premium. |
| 2007-04-18 |
www.hinet.net aka Chunghwa Telecom Taipei, Taiwan |
1,861 |
180 |
Connected via a Linksys WRT54GC wireless router using WPA Personal / TKIP authentication. |
| 2007-06-10 |
cable.mindspring.com Flushing, New York, USA |
1,900 |
486 |
Compare later with Verizon DSL. |
| 2007-07-03 |
Verizon Wireless, Rev A Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA |
955 | 332 |
Key West Avenue |
| 2007-07-03 | Verizon Wireless, Rev A Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA |
1,064 |
381 |
Shady Grove Road at Research Drive |
| 2007-07-03 | Verizon Wireless, Rev A Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA |
376 |
352 |
Shady Grove Road at I-270 |
| 2007-07-03 | Verizon Wireless, Rev A Bethesda, Maryland, USA |
906 |
434 |
I-270 at I-495 |
| 2007-07-03 | Verizon Wireless, Rev A Kensington, Maryland, USA |
1,264 |
668 |
I-495 at MD-185 |
| 2007-07-03 | Verizon Wireless, Rev A Kensington, Maryland, USA |
667 |
241 |
|
| 2007-07-03 | Verizon FiOS Kensington, Maryland, USA |
12,050 |
1,650 | Advertised as 15,000 / 2,000 |
| 2007-07-07 |
Verizon Wireless, Rev A Quanah, Texas, USA |
115 |
55 |
1xRTT network. |
| 2007-07-09 |
Verizon Wireless, Rev A Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, USA |
130 |
85 |
1xRTT network. |
| 2007-07-16 |
Verizon Wireless, Rev A Gaithersburg, Maryland, USA |
1563 |
544 |
|
| 2007-07-29 |
Verizon Wireless, Rev A San Francisco, California, USA |
1579 |
542 |
Radisson Hotel at Fisherman's Wharf |
| 2007-08-02 |
Verizon Wireless, Rev A Oakland, California, USA |
2521 |
299 |
Oakland Airport |
| 2007-08-15 | Verizon Wireless, Rev A Washington, DC, USA |
127 |
77 |
1xRTT network. Although this is a really slow speed connection, it was done underground on the Washington subway between the Tenleytown and Van Ness stations. |
| 2007-08-25 |
Verizon Wireless, Rev A Rockville, MD, USA |
1622 |
853 | Gordon Biersch Restaurant in downtown Rockville Their free WiFi was 1087/316 |
| 2007-09-06 | Verizon DSL Flushing, NY |
2870 |
723 |
Service has been reliable. |
| 2007-10-13 |
Columbus Airport Airport (CMH) Free Wi-Fi Columbus, Ohio, USA |
3524 |
2392 |
Free Wi-Fi that's fast. Looks like the service is provided by ameritech.net. |
| 2008-01-12 |
Verizon Wireless, Rev A Great Falls, VA, USA |
1144 |
743 |
|
| 2008-12-25 | Verizon Wireless, Rev A Minooka, IL, USA |
1022 | 363 | 18 months ago I only got slow speed (1xRTT) service. This is a dramatic improvement. |
| 2009-05-15 | KB Telecom Taipei, Taiwan |
1362 | 207 | Excellent speed considering the Speakeasy resources are across the Pacific Ocean from here. |
| 2009-06-24 | Verizon FiOS Chevy Chase, Maryland, USA |
10,246 | 1,845 | Over Wi-Fi, WPA2, using the Verizon supplied router. |
| 2009-07-13 | Verizon DSL Flushing, NY |
2,860 | 671 | Same installation as 2007-09-06 with similar results. |
| 2009-07-13 | Time Warner Cable NYC - Flushing, NY |
9,158 | 490 | Recently had Cable installed. There was some initial problem resulting in very slow speeds which seems to have been fixed now. Note the upload is slower than Verizon DSL. |
| 2009-08-02 | Time Warner Cable NYC - Flushing, NY | 4,914 |
462 | Time Warner Cable is still slow in Flushing, NY. It's been slow ever since I turned the service on. On a prior call to a TWC tech support rep I was told this issue has been open since March, 2009. I wonder if TWC will ever give me a credit for the service being slower than advertised. |
| 2009-08-12 | Verizon Wireless, via a BlackBerry tethered by Bluetooth - New York, NY | 317 | 109 | Several tests were repeated and the speeds were consistently similar to the numbers at left. See below; the download speed appears faster when the BlackBerry is tethered by USB cable. Phone is a BlackBerry World Edition. |
| 2009-08-12 | Verizon Wireless, via a BlackBerry tethered by USB - New York, NY |
671 | 118 | Tethered via USB cable. |
| 2009-08-16 | iBAHN Internet, at the Courtyard Marriott, Chevy Chase, Maryland |
4,551 |
1,372 |
These speeds were recorded over Wi-Fi. Wired Internet is also available. The service is provided free. |
| 2009-08-18 |
Verizon FiOS Kensington, Maryland, USA |
14,109 | 1,809 | Advertised as 15,000 down and 2,000 up. |
| 2009-08-20 | Verizon Wireless Times Square, New York, NY |
1,033 | 113 | Similar to the speeds I measured on 2007-03-10. This PC does not have Rev A of VZW. |
| 2009-08-31 | Cogent Fiber New York, NY |
37,210 | 25,390 | This was measured with the ANL speed test. The connection is rated at 100Mb/S both ways. It's hard to imagine a PC posting higher numbers. |
| 2009-09-30 | Panera Bread Cafe 3571 Timonium, Maryland |
515 | 106 | I remember getting faster results from the Panera Bread Cafe in Chevy Chase, Maryland but forgot to record the speeds. |
| 2009-11-22 |
Verizon FiOS Kensington, Maryland, USA |
25,776 |
9,500 |
I upgraded to the FiOS 25,000 down and 15,000 up service. It's hard to see the difference from the 15,000 down and 2,000 up service. |
| 2009-12-08 | Verizon DSL Flushing, NY |
976 | 728 | Not looking too good for Verizon DSL this past week! Believe it or not I had to be emphatic to get the VZ tech support rep to open a trouble ticket when I called last night to complain about the slow speed. The rep wanted me to call back because even though the speed is so pathetically slow, he said his tests showed everything was fine. |
| 2009-12-29 | SSID: TSAIA_PUBLIC in the International Terminal of the Anchorage, Alaska Airport | 765 | 3,601 | Pretty good bandwidth for Free Wi-Fi. Note that TSAIA = "Ted Stevens Anchorage International Airport" |
| 2010-05-20 | 7DaysInn Hotel Kunming, China |
1,100 | 42 | Wired Internet at my hotel in Kunming, China. 7DaysInn Hotels are inexpensive and clean. |
| 2010-06-13 | Verizon FiOS Chevy Chase, Maryland |
9,940 | 1,850 | Excellent speed from the Internet at my Dad's apartment. The connection and speed measurements are via the MI424WR-GEN2 router supplied by Verizon. It would be great if Verizon could get FiOS deployed in NYC. |
| 2010-07-22 | Verizon DSL Flushing, NY (measured by Argonne National Labs Test |
2,830 | 686 | Normal speeds for my residential DSL. The test generates this info: [S2C]: Packet queuing detected |
| 2010-09-03 | Virgin Mobile MiFi Rockville, MD |
440 | 310 |
Thanks to David Pogue's article in the NY Times, we purchased and are testing a Virgin Mobile Novatel MiFi device. |
| 2010-09-03 | Virgin Mobile MiFi Bethesda, MD |
510 |
120 |
In a car at Wisconsin Avenue and Pooks Hill Road |
| 2010-09-03 | Virgin Mobile MiFi Kensington, MD |
570 | 390 | In a car near Connecticut Avenue and Saul Road |
| 2010-09-12 | McDonalds 1300 Morse Road, Columbus, OH |
325 | 97 |
My hotel's Internet wasn't working well; McDonalds Wi-Fi (via AT&T) works fine. |
| 2011-07-03 | Tethering over a Tmobile 4G connection in Flushing, NY | 2,970 | 1,370 | Tmobile Android Sidekick 4G phone that supports tethering over 4G. Tmobile charges $14.99 per month for tethering and it seems to work reasonably well, with good speeds as reported at left. |
| 2011-11-18 |
Verizon FiOS Kensington, MD USA |
22,560 |
19,590 |
Verizon is delivering tremendous speed. Test was conducted over WiFi to a MacBook Air. |
| 2011-11-29 | Cogent Fiber New York, NY |
40,510 | 34,100 | Test was conducted over WiFi provided by a Buffalo N150 router to a MacBook Air. I believe this is the highest bandwidth I've ever recorded over any wireless connection. |
| 2011-12-16 | Cogent Fiber New York, NY |
73,240 | 67,540 |
All time record speed for 5+ years! Wired Ethernet, new HP PC with an i7 and Windows 7 64 bit. |
| 2012-11-2 | Verizon LTE |
18,670 | 1,220 |
iPhone 5, Rockville, MD Uplink isn't so impressive, but the downlink speed is great. |
