How can you find the exact Internet speed of computer?

Answer 1

Well it depends. Lets say you have a laptop and you have wireless internet. Well at the bottom of your computer you should have a icon where it shows if its connected or not. There hold your mouse over it and it will tell you the speed in mbps and what connection you are connected to. And if you have a desktop. Well it should be the same unless you are not connected. Benjamin2010

Answer 2

The "exact" Internet speed is a variable value, not a constant. What Benjamin2010 mentions in his answer is the capability of the Ethernet port to which the computer is attached by cable but that is the maximum speed that can be achieved within the home/office environment rather than the actual speed attainable while traversing the Internet. Throughput in the short distance of a home or business LAN will almost always be significantly higher than Internet speed, so don't let what Windows indicates as the "speed" be your final answer.

What determines your speed is based on a number of factors. The bottlenecks tend to be the maximum speed for which you subscribe from your local Internet provider, the amount of other traffic on the trunk (presuming a cable modem since DSL connections are direct one-to-one connections between the customer and the phone company), interference due to environmental conditions (water/condensation in the lines), and all the various issues that can exist in the hops between you and the website you are trying to reach (e.g. flaky routers, hops that need to be re-routed due to down routers, hops that are routed through satellites, busy web server at your destination, and more).

If you want to measure what you are currently getting from your ISP in a method that is much more accurate than any speed test that your ISP may use (as their test will measure speed on their internal network, similar to the port speed in Windows telling you what the port is capable of doing in theory), then I suggest you go to:

http://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest

I have found this to be very accurate and it has a number of servers from which you can run tests so you can see how your performance varies based on which direction and what distance from your location.

I hope all this helps. If you have any questions or would otherwise like further assistance, feel free to drop me a line.