The HighSpeedInternet speed test

https://www.highspeedinternet.com/tools/speed-test The HighSpeedInternet speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the HighSpeedInternet speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is a conservative speed test. That is the measured speed is structural to low.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 98.2 Mbps, we conclude that the HighSpeedInternet speed test is a relative accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 86/100).

The HighSpeedInternet speed test is a conservative speed test. That is, this speed test measures structural an internet speed lower than the advertised speed.

The HighSpeedInternet speed test is owned by Clearlink Technologies, LLC. The first occurence of this speed test on the Wayback Machine is from November 2022 (other speed tests have been used before).

Incorrect download speed

When we tested the HighSpeedInternet speed test we concluded that at the end of the download test, the measured speed is almost correct. However when the download test is completed the final measured download speed is circa 2% (2 Mbps when measured 100 Mbps) lower than the highest measured speed.

Because HighSpeedInternet does this, an incorrectly low download speed is always presented as the end result.

The HighSpeedInternet speed test shows during the test an almost correct value (100.26 Mbps) During the test, the measured value is almost correct.

The HighSpeedInternet speed test shows when finished always a 2% (?) lower value (98.26 Mbps) When the test is completed, the download speed is 2% (?) lower than maximum measured value.

The HighSpeedInternet speed test is a based on the M-Lab speed test.

Pros

This HighSpeedInternet speed test has the following pros:

  1. The speed test is based on M-Lab (which is an excellent choice)

Cons

This HighSpeedInternet speed test has the following cons:

  1. The final result is structural to low
  2. There are ads
  3. A lot of cookies are used

When to use HighSpeedInternet

There is no reason why this speed test is better than the original M-Lab speed test. Hence we advice you to use M-Lab above HighSpeedInternet.

How we tested

We have tested the HighSpeedInternet 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: no
  3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 98.2 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: no
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 34.48
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 37
  8. Number of cookies: 22
  9. Number of measured features: 1 (although more information can be requested)
  10. Number of Wave errors: 28
  11. Observatory score: 70
  12. Tingtun score: 98.67
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 506.71 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 76 seconds