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- Price: Free
- Operating system: Windows Vista, Windows XP
- Date added: September 26, 2007
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- CNET editors' rating: 5.0 stars
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Average user rating:
1.5 stars
out of 7 reviews
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CNET editors' review
Reviewed by: CNET Staff
This effective, free tool measures your Internet speed and lets you compare it with other types of connections.
Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics appears in your Tools menu. Selecting it introduces a small pop-up window that displays your IP address and domain name. There's a button for a download speed test and an upload speed test, along with a message field that displays the status of the tests. Each time we ran a test, we were amazed at how fast the program came up with results. A new tab in our browser appeared almost instantaneously with the results in a line graph. The line graph gave us a side-by-side comparison of our bandwidth with other types of Internet connections such as dial-up, ISDN, and cable modems. There's a button on the pop-up and on the results page for a helpful support forum if you have any questions.
This is a great tool for users of all levels looking to check up on their bandwidth connection.
Publisher's description
(From GoToMyHelp GoToMyHelp ):This extension can perform bandwidth and speed measurement for Internet connections. This extension adds "Bandwidth Meter" to the Tools Menu. It performs the following tasks: Display your public IP address, display your public domain name, test download speed/bandwidth, and test upload speed/bandwidth. This version is the first release on CNET Download.com.
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User reviews
- Average user rating: 1.6 stars out of 7 votes
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Version: Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics 1.1
"The program showed incorrect bandwidth."
Cons: The program showed much lower bandwidth than I clock when downloading files and what I get from other metering programs.
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0 out of 2 people found this review helpful
Version: Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics 1.1
"the extinsion is not working"
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Version: Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics 1.1
"will not work on up to date mozilla"
Pros: won't run on firefox
Cons: won't run on firefox
Summary: won't run on firefox
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1 out of 1 people found this review helpful
Version: Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics 1.1
"Should have read reviews. How do you open the .xpi file"
Pros: ??????????
Cons: ??????????
Summary: This application looks to be the equivelent to "Internet Speed Test" which is available for XP and earlier versions of Windows. I was looking for something to run in Vista. Maybe if we had some info on opening the .xpi file, we could try this one ... read more >>
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Version: Bandwidth Meter and Diagnostics 1.1
Pros: I wouldn't know ... yet.
Cons: It downloads an .xpi file; there are no instructions or a web site to find what to do with that file; Windows says it doesn't recognize it. Suggestions?
Summary: Maybe this could come bundled with a text file to fun through for those of us a little less "tech savvy" than you run-of-the-mill IT Engineer. :)
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