How To Check Your BandwidthThe term (Bandwidth Monitor) refers to a software application or utility that measures the speed of your internet connection. Basically, a bandwidth monitor measures the downstream and upstream throughput of your internet connection. Presently, there are many internet service providers each claiming itself to be the best provider. Also, there are a number of plans available in the market depending on your needs. This has led to the development of bandwidth monitors that provides you an easy way to know the true speed of your internet connection. With the increasing demand for internet all over the world, companies have started developing bandwidth monitoring application both online and offline. The term "online" here refers to the applications that can be saved and run directly from your computer and "offline" refers to the bandwidth monitors that are run through your internet browser and the results are shown in the browser itself. With wide variety of bandwidth monitors available in the market, it has become almost impossible to judge the best bandwidth monitor. But you don't need to worry as I am going to list some of the features of a good bandwidth monitor that will help you in distinguishing it from a useless and false bandwidth monitor. Here are some of the features:
1. A good bandwidth monitor is able to show you all the details about your internet connection i.e. the downstream and upstream speed, average speed of your internet connection, peak bandwidth usage with the help of a chart, etc. 2. Another amazing feature you search for is ability to display the consumption of bandwidth by individual applications. In other words, you can view which applications are using the maximum bandwidth and which are getting less bandwidth. 3. There are many bandwidth monitors that do report speed of your internet connection but most of the times the report displayed by them is not correct and varies every time you get a report about your internet connection. A good bandwidth monitor never shows different results except in the case if you are using your internet bandwidth for any other application along with bandwidth monitor. The reason being, bandwidth monitors requires usage of complete internet bandwidth in order to judge the exact speed of your internet connection. 4. Last but not the least; a good bandwidth monitor should be able to display a consolidated report of your internet connection that can help you judge the overall qualities of your internet connection along with other weaknesses. You can find all the above qualities in an offline bandwidth monitor application but you might find only some of the qualities in an online bandwidth monitor because such an application requires extensive use of programming technology along with high cost in terms of maintenance and cost. But, there are some of the companies that do provide its customers with such facilities. Yet, if you are unable to find a good bandwidth monitor then let me help you out. You can try Netflow Analyzer that posses all the features mentioned above to be a good offline bandwidth monitor. For an online bandwidth monitor I will recommend going to this link: http://speed.airtelbroadband.in/ and click (Check Speed). This website offers an accurate speed of your internet connection as compared to others. Also, you should check the speed of your internet connection with the server of your area as servers located at far places aren't able to give accurate information due to time delay. |