The Buckeye broadband speed test

http://speed.buckeyebroadband.com/ The Buckeye broadband speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Buckeye broadband speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is a clone of Ookla's Speedtest.

Ookla's Speedtest and its clones are accurate, use a lot of data and take a relatively long time to complete.

These three features account for 70% of the overall score we give to a speed test. It is therefore not surprising that almost all clones of Ookla's Speedtest have the same overall score.

For a proper comparison between Buckeye broadband vs Ookla, we will focus on the differences between Buckeye broadband's speed test and Ookla's.

Since there are so many Ookla clones, we have created a separate list of Ookla clones for this purpose.

The Buckeye broadband speed test is owned by Buckeye broadband.

Pros

The Buckeye broadband speed test has the following pros:

1. Significant less cookies than Ookla (0 instead of 21)
2. Ad-free

Cons

The Buckeye broadband speed test has the following cons:

1. No link to Ookla's privacy policy (the privacy banner at the bottom is empty)
2. The connection is not secure
3. Not possible to select a nearby local server

When to use Buckeye broadband

If you just want to know what your internet speed is, then read our advice for a better speed than this Ookla clone.

If you want to ask [company] what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test properly.

Preferably you use this speed test and perform this test on several days.

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

How we tested

We have tested the Buckeye broadband speed test in a standardized way to determine the overall score. For the scoreboard (Buckeye broadband versus Ookla) we count the number of pros and cons.

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: Mbps
4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
5. Correct back button behavior: no
6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 0 (No privacy policy found)
7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 2
8. Number of cookies: 0
9. Number of measured features: 5
10. Number of Wave errors: 1
11. Observatory score: 10
12. Tingtun score: -
13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 753.12 MiBs
14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 116 seconds