https://samknows.com/realspeed/ The RealSpeed speed test 0 5/5 stars ★★★★★ Hans van der Graaf Hans van der Graaf
The RealSpeed speed test is a sublime, highly recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test tests your router's internet speed and your device's internet speed.
The router speed test gives you the internet speed as provided by your ISP provider.
The device speed test gives you the internet speed as measured on your device. If this internet speed is lower than the internet speed as measured in the router speed test, then you know that your home network is the bottleneck.
With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 101 Mbps, we conclude that the RealSpeed router speed test is an accurate speed test.
The RealSpeed speed test is a mainstream speed test. That is, this speed test measures the advertised speed.
The RealSpeed speed test is owned by SamKnows Limited (SamKnows is part of Cisco since September 2023). The first working occurence of the RealSpeed speed test in the Wayback Machine is November 2023 (although the URL has existed since April 2020).
A RealSpeed example
Contrary to what we are used to, we test the RealSpeed speed test based on a sub-optimal home network. We do this by including a Sweex RO001 100 Mbps router in the home network. Since mainstream speed tests measure 90% of your true internet speed, we now expect the router's internet speed to be 100.8 Mbps and the device's internet speed to be 90 Mbps.
A measured router speed of 101 Mbps is very accurate.
When we test our internet speed under this conditions with Ookla's Speedtest we measure 92.82 Mbps. Hence the measured device internet speed of 92.7 Mbps is comparable to Ookla's results.
As double check, we check the device internet speed with SpeedOf.me, this because SpeedOf.me was the number one in our test of realistic speed tests.
With SpeedOf.me we measure 99.93 Mbps. So the Sweex router indeed has a max througput of 100 Mbps.
Pros
This RealSpeed speed test has the following pros:
- The RealSpeed speed test is an original speed test
- RealSpeed measures your router speed test and your device speed test. This provides insight into whether there are problems in your home network
Cons
This RealSpeed speed test has the following cons:
- RealSpeed does not work in combination with a VPN (or TOR)
When you are using a VPN or TOR, you can't use RealSpeed. You get the message that RealSpeed is not available on this network.
When to use RealSpeed
If you suspect there are problems in your home network, RealSpeed is the speed test to use.