https://www.fusionconnect.com/speed-test-plus Fusion Connect speed test plus 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf Hans van der Graaf
In general, the Fusion Connect 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 Fusion Connect vs Ookla, we will focus on the differences between Fusion Connect'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.
Fusion Connect is an Morgan Stanley company. The first occurence on the Wayback Machine of a speed test plus is from May 2020. Since June 19, 2022 Fusion Connect offers their customers an Ookla Clone.
The Plus in Speed Test Plus is probably the alternative result page used to show the results of the Ookla speed test.
Pros
The Fusion Connect speed test has the following pros:
- A significant higher Observatory score than Ookla (70 instead of 5)
Cons
The Fusion Connect speed test has the following cons:
- No link to Ookla's privacy policy
- Not possible to select a nearby local server
- Less informative (due to a own result page)
- Significant more Wave errors (9 instead of 2)
- Significant more AChecker known problems (29 instead of 0)
When to use Fusion Connect
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 Fusion Connect 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 Fusion Connect speed test plus 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: no
- Average download speed of 3 measurements: 101.9 Mbps
- Clear indication of the current focus: yes
- Correct back button behavior: yes
- Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 17.33
- Number of ACheckers known problems: 29
- Number of cookies: 21
- Number of measured features: 3
- Number of Wave errors: 9
- Observatory score: 70
- Tingtun score: 95.48
- Total data use of 3 measurements: 760.37 MiBs
- Total time to complete 3 tests: 128 seconds