The speed of internet plays a vital role in surfing, downloading or uploading. Everyone is keen to know about the upload and download speed the internet service provider ISP is providing.
Nowadays when most of the dialup users have shifted to new services called Broadband T3 the speed is not a problem. The rates of the services are also being reduced and helping the end-user.
The speed is not always consistent and end-user always like to check the speed of the internet i.e. upload and download which in most cases is checked by uploading a file or downloading a file from some site.

For facilitation of the end-user and to ease him in checking speed the can go to various site for checking speed which tells you the IP and at the same time you can choose to check your internet speed as well.

It will just take a minute or two and will perform a test that will shown to you that at that very moment what speed you are actually being provided by the ISP.

You can test both upload and download speeds. Results will display average bandwidth results from other ISP users that use this testing site.

Your connection speed may vary from host to host due to Path your ISP takes to the host, server capacity, Internet traffic, your hardware or OS, neighborhood (cable users).

It is recommended that while on checking speed when download and upload test is in the progress you should close all your other internet related activities to give you exact numeric of the test.