THE BEST SOFTWARE FOR ONLINE ADSL TEST

THE BEST SOFTWARE FOR ONLINE ADSL TEST

Who, having an ADSL line, perhaps new, never thought to check the actual speed ? Who has doubts when browsing, realize that the loading of pages on the network slows down ? For this, online web service were born,  to test the ADSL speed provided by our ISP. Before listing and explaining the operation of the software for testing ADSL, I want you to explain how many and what factors are. Here are the causes that affect our ADSL speed.

1. Distance (in km) from the main switchboard.
2. Quality of cables.
3. Model of modem-router.
4. Own PC and its hardware component.
5. Carrier signal.
6. Firewall used.
7. Number of connections in a given time.

I explain the points one by one :

The distance of our house from the telephone exchange that handles the signal, is essential, as more than 4-5 km away, present a fairly substantial decline in the maximum operating speed. In town this can not happen because of multiple locations of these stations in the suburbs but the question changes.

1. The distance of our house from the telephone exchange that handles the signal, is essential, as more than 4-5 km away, present a fairly substantial decline in the maximum operating speed. In town this can not happen because of multiple locations of these stations in the suburbs but the question changes.

2. The twisted pair cable that is that the nearest telephone exchange, present in our city, comes to us, bringing us two signals: the telephone and the ADSL signals. The two signals are then separated, working on different frequency bands, using an DSL filter which almost completely eliminates the annoying hiss and noise you hear otherwise. It's clear that the twisted pair can have many years and be damaged in several places. Replace it is an arduous work and still should be done by the telephone company. The network should be modernized but I suppose this will be an impossible task to do by considerable its extension and enormous expense. The only thing we could do is to clean the connectors inside the telephone wall socket. Learn how to do it on the Web.

3. Let the causes that may worsen or improve our speed. Those on which we can respond effectively. The modem-router is one of them. The protocols used by all ISPs are ADSL, ADSL2 / 2 +. The modem-router must be able to have these features, easy to read on the packaging. Also, these modems are designed to support speeds up to 20 megs or more. You know that if you use wireless connections, and the speed decreases, sometimes significantly, due to the type of wireless card or wireless USB adapter. Make sure, when you buy one, which features enabling maximum efficiency of the signal.

4. The type of computer you use is essential, together with its internal components. Thinking of surfing the web with a Pentium III, now obsolete, is absurd, as it doesn't exploit the maximum speed of ADSL. A good Core 2 Duo 4 Gigs of RAM and a graphics card with at least 256 Mega, is the best choice. Because the graphics card ? Why, in the Web, Java and Flash technologies are increasingly evolving and therefore they require more system resources.

5. What's the carrier signal ? It's just the speed available by ISP at any time. For various reasons it may be lowered. One of the most common reasons is that with higher speeds, the connection is lost easily. This may be due to the fact that the line (telephone network) does not not sustain signals over a certain threshold. In case you understand that the connection drops frequently, you would to call your ADSL provider.

6. The FIREWALL is a must for protection against intruders in our PC. The modem-routers present inside, built-in firewall but it is useful to install another on computer. More restrictions we give at virtual ports to more the ADSL signal can suffer (in terms still less than other points mentioned above).

7. More users are connected to the network and less ADSL signal we have. You'll notice that often in the morning the speed is higher than in the evening. This is because, users connected in the evening, are in a greater number. More users, less DSL signal. The two parameters are inversely proportional.

You, more or less, understand how many and what factors may affect our browsing speed. He was having to speak, because, check yourself, using ADSL line testing, the results will differ considerably. Take the test in the morning and then in the evening and see the differences.

The ones I'm going to show you are among the best online services to test your connection. There are many others but these will offer better and precise values. When you run the tests you should disable the firewall of your operating system and close all applications that are using the network. (For example, any downloading programs). Here's the list :

1. SPEEDTEST 
2. NETMETER
3. MY SPEED TEST
4. BANDWITHPLACE

You must have installed on your PC, JAVA e FLASH, so that you can use some of these services with ADSL line testing. Remember to make an average of the results and that they may not be accurate as possible. Some also offer the PING test, ie the time it takes our signal to reach a server and back. (Value in milliseconds). Lower is better.

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