Many experts maintain HTML5-established speed tests are somewhat more accurate than evaluations that use Adobe Flash and Java. Others point out that multithread evaluations like those used by Ookla (Speedtest.net and branded by many ISPs) do not represent real world network traffic as well as single-thread evaluations.

The most consistent evaluation results were recorded at Speakeasy’s Flash-based Speed Test and at TestMy.net’s HTML5-established examiner. Needless to say, the services’ evaluations could be consistently incorrect. After running several tests over a period of days, all of Speed Evaluation’s download results were within a number of kilobits of 11.5Mbps.

When I ran the tests provided by my ISP, AT&T. unsurprisingly, the greatest consistent speeds were reported Ookla provides the organization ‘s speed evaluations, as are the evaluations at a number of other network suppliers. The FCC’s evaluation also requires that you provide your street address.)

One of the dozen-or-so evaluations recorded a download speed of 10.4Mbps, and several of Ookla’s Flash-based evaluation results surpassed 12.5Mbps for downloads.

After running more than 100 network speed evaluations from various suppliers over the course of many days, I am assured my ISP is providing speeds approximating — and possibly surpassing — those when I signed up for the service it promised. Whether any of the speed tests I attempted actually represent real world network traffic is debatable.

HTML5-established speed tests like those offered by SpeedOf.me and TestMy.net appear to get an edge in they need no additional applications. In case you imagine you are paying for more bandwidth than you are really becoming, you needn’t trust your ISP’s evaluation results to make your claim — particularly if you happen to live in one of your service’s dead zones.