{"id":18487,"date":"2022-03-30T10:37:36","date_gmt":"2022-03-30T14:37:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ckms.ca\/?p=18487"},"modified":"2022-03-30T11:02:24","modified_gmt":"2022-03-30T15:02:24","slug":"how-to-run-an-internet-speed-test","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/?p=18487","title":{"rendered":"How to run an internet speed test."},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.speedtest.net\/\">speedtest.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>ensure no VPN running, and generally no major internet activity on computer\/table\/phone (as in, no doing a speed test while watching videos, downloading large files, etc.)<\/p>\n<p>ensure server is set to that same as the service provider; in this example below, &#8220;Cogeco Connenxion Inc&#8221; is selected; use the &#8220;Change server&#8221; setting if required.\u00a0 Doing a test to a server NOT on the ISP&#8217;s network is fairly useless, since it includes a link from our ISP to another ISP, so the results could be due to that link.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30-10_31_36-Speedtest-by-Ookla-The-Global-Broadband-Speed-Test.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-18488\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30-10_31_36-Speedtest-by-Ookla-The-Global-Broadband-Speed-Test.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"575\" height=\"372\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30-10_31_36-Speedtest-by-Ookla-The-Global-Broadband-Speed-Test.jpg 774w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30-10_31_36-Speedtest-by-Ookla-The-Global-Broadband-Speed-Test-300x194.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30-10_31_36-Speedtest-by-Ookla-The-Global-Broadband-Speed-Test-768x497.jpg 768w, https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/03\/2022-03-30-10_31_36-Speedtest-by-Ookla-The-Global-Broadband-Speed-Test-675x437.jpg 675w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 575px) 100vw, 575px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Logging into a &#8220;speedtest.net&#8221; account will keep these settings, as well as save all results for later perusal.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>speedtest.net ensure no VPN running, and generally no major internet activity on&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[282],"tags":[297,1229],"class_list":["post-18487","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-article","tag-internet","tag-troubleshooting","wpcat-282-id"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18487"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18487\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18487"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18487"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.ckms.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18487"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}