The Astound speed test

http://pa.speedtest.astound.com/ The Astound speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Astound speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is not mobile friendly. Besides that there are more accurate speed tests.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 102.7 Mbps, we conclude that the Astound speed test is an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 94/100).

The Astound speed test is a mainstream speed test. That is, this speed test measures the advertised speed.

Note that in the past we stated that (...) Astound is a miscellaneous speed test. This is because with a speed of 50 Mbps, Astound measures 48 Mbps, while with a speed of 75 Mbps, Astound measures 77 Mbps (...)

The Astound speed test is owned by Astound Broadband.

At the page Astound internet speed test you will find a link to http://speedtest.astound.com/ which in the past redirected to http://pa.speedtest.astound.com/. Nowadays this redirection doesn't work anymore. Besides that http://pa.speedtest.astound.com/ now redirects to http://pa.speedtest.astound.com/.

The first occurence of the Astound speed test (formally the RCN speed test) in the Wayback Machine is August 2008. That makes it one of the oldest speed tests.

Pros

This Astound speed test has the following pros:

  1. The Astound speed test is a unique speed test
  2. The speed test is relative accurate
  3. There are no cookies
  4. The speed test is ad-free
  5. You can choose which test you want to start

Cons

This Astound speed test has the following cons:

  1. The interface seems slightly outdated
  2. The speed test requires a lot of data
  3. The speed test is not mobile friendly

Not mobile friendly

With a browserwidth of 1920 pixels, the Astound speed test, looks nice. The Astound speed test as displayed at a large screen

However with a browserwidth of 480 pixels, the Astound speed test, can't be used at all. The Astound speed test at a small screen can't be used at all

When to use the Astound speed test

If you just want to know what your internet speed is, then use another speed test. Read our advice for a better speed test that suits your needs.

If you want to ask Astound what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test your internet speed with the Astound speed test.

Keep in mind that your home network is usually the bottleneck.

How we tested

We have tested the Astound speed test in a standardized way. This makes speed tests easy to compare.

The following results form the basis for this speed test review:

  1. Abort/pause possible: no
  2. Ad-free: yes
  3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 102.7 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 18
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 4
  8. Number of cookies: 0
  9. Number of measured features: 1
  10. Number of Wave errors: 3
  11. Observatory score: 10
  12. Tingtun score: 60
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 893.77 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 85.8 seconds