How to Test Kecepatan on the Internet

You can easily measure the speed of your connection to the Internet.

Kecepatan is the Indonesian word for "speed." It is often necessary to measure the speed of a connection to the Internet. At slow connection speeds, not only will some applications work too slowly, but others, such as Skype and streaming video, may not work at all. Because there are many intermediate servers and networks between an end user and Internet servers, the best tests measure end-to-end speed between the two endpoints of the connection. You can easily do that by using any of the following three free speed test Web services.

Instructions

1. Navigate to the "Speed Test" Web page with a Web browser. Make sure the animation within the central gray rectangle is working.

2. Choose one of the eight available cities in the United States by clicking it. The speed test will take a couple of minutes. At the end, the Flash application will display the average upload and download speeds it measured.

3. Repeat Step 2 for a different city. If the results are not within 10 percent of each other, average them. The average will be a good figure for the usable speed of your connection to the Internet.

1. Navigate to the "SpeedTest: The Global Broadband Speed Test" Web page with a Web browser.

2. Click "Begin Test" near the top of the page.

3. Wait a couple of minutes until the speed test completes. At the end, the Flash application will display the average upload and download speeds it measured.

1. Navigate to the "McAfee: Check My Internet Connection Speed" Web page with a Web browser.

2. Click "Click Here to Test Now" near the bottom of the page.

3. Wait a couple of minutes until the speed test completes. At the end, the Flash application will display the download speed it measured.

References

• SpeakEasy: Speed Test
• SpeedTest: The Global Broadband Speed Test
• McAfee: Check My Internet Connection Speed