Welcome to the self-proclaimed Rural Ottawa High-Speed Internet Blog. High-speed Internet access is virtually ubiquitous in the urban and suburban areas of Ottawa, but when I started this blog in 2005, only about 60% of the rural areas of Ottawa have coverage. However, even for rural citizens, high-speed Internet access is becoming as necessary as telephone service. Happily, high-speed coverage for rural Ottawa has increased significantly, and not only is coverage reportedly above 90%, many rural residents and businesses now have more than one choice of high-speed ISP.

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Tuesday, December 22, 2015

Auto Speed Test on TestMy.net

I'm not sure how long this feature has been available on TestMy.net, but the Auto Speed Test feature is pretty handy for running periodic DL and/or UL tests for your internet connection.  

Like the regular one-of spped tests available on TestMy.net, you can choose UL, DL, or combined (both) tests.  But you can set it to repeat the same test at various periods between 5 minutes and 24 hours, and repeat between 5 times and 100 times. 

If you have an (free) account on TestMy.net, all the results are stored for later review.

Disclosure: I have received no consideration or payments for this posting.  I just discovered the Auto Speed Test tool last night, and thought I'd share it.

-Chris



4 Comments:

Blogger Unknown said...

I'm not sure how to contact you. I have a major development in the the gov't of canada & Bell's connecting Canadians initiative. Bell is offering the zte turbo hub for $0 on a 2 year term with up to 1 hundred gigabytes for $63.95. If possible message me I would like to talk more about this with you.

March 30, 2016 9:46 pm  
Blogger Chris Spencer said...

@eric lough

That sounds like a pretty good deal, but I could not find any mention of it on Bell's website. It was showing the ZTE turbo hub for $99 on a 2-year plan, and their data plans were the same-old-pricey-Bell ($145 for 100 GB).

When is the offer supposed to start?

-Chris

March 31, 2016 8:10 pm  
Anonymous Toronto Wedding Photographer said...

I perfer speedtest.net and fast.com.

September 05, 2017 4:04 pm  
Blogger Chris Spencer said...

I use speedtest.net fairly often, but I'd never heard of fast.com... so thanks!

September 05, 2017 9:02 pm  

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