However, I figured before I jumped all over my lousy internet provider (rhymes with “Pomcast”), I’d do a little bit of research. I’ve become a huge fan of the site Speedtest.net- it has some really cool visual bandwidth tracking tools, keeps a running track of your connection rates, and best of all its entirely free.

Using their tools over a couple of days testing from different ping locations, I got a pretty good feel for my connection’s performance and delivered a convincing case to my provider. So far its been running much better!