Speeding on the Internet...

Windows 8 has a nice App for this, and it might make a great Heads-Up-Display for the Desktop Gadgets with a bit more tweaking.....

But it still can't quite match my all-time favorite, Speakeasy, for real-world data that speaks to me in a language I understand and gives a complete picture.

And if I may be permitted to get 'preachy' for a moment, you know, of course, that the further away from you your chosen testing location, then the more 'hops' or transfer points between servers on various sections of the system there will be. And each of those introduces its own share of 'latency' or delay, expressed in milliseconds. So, for example, if you see a high number listed for 'latency', it either means your chosen test site was far away, across many 'hops', or else it means you don't have a very fast connection from your Internet Service Provider (ISP) and you should talk to them for a better plan perhaps.

Bob, the man who runs this ISP, says we should run speed tests from several various sites, to get a better idea of the machine's characteristics and your own connections to the web, to become familiar with what's 'normal' for you. Speeds also vary with different times of day, because the volume of traffic on the system will also affect results.