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Speakeasy Speed Test - Measure Your Available Bandwidth
Use the Speakeasy link below to measure your 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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Here's a different speed test, a techie's delight with all manner of technical data, hosted at anl.gov |
True Blade's Speakeasy 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |
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| 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 |