https://broadbandnow.com/speedtest The BroadbandNow speed test 0 3/5 stars ★★★☆☆ Hans van der Graaf Hans van der Graaf
In general, the BroadbandNow speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is conservative, slow and uses a lot of data.
- Data efficiency: 0/100
- Time to complete: 13/100
- Security: 51/100
- Privacy friendly: 36/100
- Usability: 50/100
- Accessibility: 72/100
- Informative: 50/100
With an adverstised speed of 125 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 123.6 Mbps, we conclude that the BroadbandNow speed test is a relative accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 89/100).
The BroadbandNow speed test is a conservative speed test. That is, this speed test measures structural an internet speed lower than the advertised speed.
The BroadbandNow speed test is a registered trademark of Centerfield BBN LLC. The first occurence on the Wayback Machine is from 7 september 2018.
In the past the BroadbandNow speed test was based on the M-Lab speed test.
Nowadays the speed test is based on the Cloudflare speed test.
Pros
This BroadbandNow speed test has the following pros:
- The speed test is ad-free
- There are a lot of accessibility options
Accessibility options
The amount of accessibility options is overwhelming. We appreciate this and have doubled our standardized accessibility test score from 36 to 72.
Cons
This BroadbandNow speed test has the following cons:
- The speed test is conservative
- The speed test uses a lot of data
- The speed test is slow
When to use BroadbandNow
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.
How we tested
We have tested the BroadbandNow speed test in a standardized way. This makes speed tests easy to compare.
The following results form the basis for this speed test review:
- Abort/pause possible: no
- Ad-free: yes
- Average download speed of 3 measurements: 123.6 Mbps
- Clear indication of the current focus: yes
- Correct back button behavior: yes
- Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 27.69
- Number of ACheckers known problems: 13
- Number of cookies: 11
- Number of measured features: 3
- Number of Wave errors: 0
- Observatory score: 30
- Tingtun score: - (Tingtun is down)
- Total data use of 3 measurements: 1281.12
- Total time to complete 3 tests: 138 seconds