The Speakeasy speed test

https://www.speakeasy.net/speedtest/ The Speakeasy speed test 0 4/5 stars ★★★★☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the Speakeasy speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because this speed test is relative slow and consumes a lot of data.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 101.9 Mbps, we conclude that the Speakeasy speed test is an accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 98/100).

The Speakeasy speed test is a mainstream speed test. That is, this speed test measures the advertised speed.

Speakeasy states (summer 2024) at their homepage that they are now Fusion Connect.

Speakeasy is part of Fusion Connect

Fusion Connect is an Morgan Stanley company, hence Speakeasy is also a Morgan Stanley company.

According to the Wayback Machine Speakeasy offers their customers a speed test since August 2003. Since June 19, 2022 Speakeasy offers their customers an Ookla Clone.

A customized result page

That Speakeasy offers an Ookla clone is not remarkable.

The Speakeasy speed test seems to be a standard Ookla clone

However, it is remarkable that the customized results page differs greatly from Ookla's default results page.

The Speakeasy speed test resultpage is customized

Pros

This Speakeasy speed test has the following pros:

  1. The speed test is accurate
  2. There is a nice customized resultpage

Cons

This Speakeasy speed test has the following cons:

  1. The resultpage contains an add
  2. The speed test is relative slow
  3. A lot of data is required for a test

When to use Speakeasy

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.

If you want to ask Speakeasy what to do to get the advertised speed you have to test properly.

Preferably you use this speed test from Speakeasy 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 Speakeasy 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: 101.9 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 17.33
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 26
  8. Number of cookies: 7
  9. Number of measured features: 3
  10. Number of Wave errors: 3
  11. Observatory score: 25
  12. Tingtun score: 94.4
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 761.37 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 2.13 seconds