The U Switch speed test

https://www.uswitch.com/broadband/speedtest/ The U Switch speed test 0 3/5 stars ★★★☆☆ Hans van der Graaf

In general, the U Switch speed test is not a recommended speed test, mainly because the results are somewhat accurate and because this speed test is relative slow. Fortunately there are more accurate speed tests.

 

With an adverstised speed of 100 Mbps and an average measured internet speed of 97.7 Mbps, we conclude that the U Switch speed test is a somewhat accurate speed test (Accuracy score: 77/100).

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

The U Switch speed test is a brand of RVU Limited. According to the Wayback Machine U Switch offers a speed test since July 2011.

This version of the speed test is from August 2024.

An UK based comparison site

U Switch claims to be (...) the UK’s leading comparison site for energy, broadband and mobiles (...).

The speed test offered by U Switch is part of a comparison process. You will also need to enter your postcode and your current internet provider before you can start the test. Other internet providers will be recommended on the results page.

The result page of the U Switch speed test mainly offers space to the recommended internet providers

The U Switch speed test is an original speed test.

Pros

This U Switch speed test has the following pros:

  1. There is an indication of the quality of your connection (slow, regular, fast and very fast)

98 Mbps is regular

According to U Switch is a download speed of 98 Mbps a regular download speed.

The U Switch speed test

Cons

This U Switch speed test has the following cons:

  1. You have to enter a valid UK postcode and an internet provider before you start the test
  2. The results are too low
  3. At the "home page" it is stated that Get your current speed results in seconds, however this speed test is slow compared to other speed tests
  4. There is no option to do a retest

Two required fields

Before you are able to start this speed test you have to enter a valid UK postcode and an internet provider. This significantly degrades the user experience if you only want to run a speed test.

The U Switch speed test

When to use U Switch

If you just want to know what your internet speed is, then use another speed test. The results are too low and you have to enter a valid UK postcode and an internet provider before you start the test.

How we tested

We have tested the U Switch 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: yes
  3. Average download speed of 3 measurements: 97.7 Mbps
  4. Clear indication of the current focus: yes
  5. Correct back button behavior: yes
  6. Flesch Reading Ease score of the privacy policy: 53.78
  7. Number of ACheckers known problems: 6
  8. Number of cookies: 29
  9. Number of measured features: 3
  10. Number of Wave errors: 2
  11. Observatory score: 45
  12. Tingtun score: 98.55
  13. Total data use of 3 measurements: 583.43 MiBs
  14. Total time to complete 3 tests: 126 seconds