{"id":393,"date":"2015-07-08T11:27:03","date_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:27:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/?p=393"},"modified":"2015-07-08T11:29:51","modified_gmt":"2015-07-08T19:29:51","slug":"how-to-test-your-internet-speed-without-getting-infected-by-malware","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.outofajam.net\/blog\/2015\/07\/08\/how-to-test-your-internet-speed-without-getting-infected-by-malware\/","title":{"rendered":"How to test your internet speed &#8211; without getting infected by malware"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re paying for it, and by golly, you want it! You want that internet speed. But mostly, you probably want to know why it&#8217;s so slow right now that you&#8217;re about ready to go mental.<\/p>\n<p>Well, as you no doubt know, you could be using speediest.net to find out just how fast your connection to the world is. Time was, this worked quite well &#8211; but that time was long, long ago. Now speediest.net is covered in ads for what is basically malware (yep, I&#8217;m looking at you MacKeeper) and to add insult to injury, it&#8217;s entirely flash dependent. There have been times I&#8217;ve thought that the actual speedtest is just getting the site to load, never mind using it.<\/p>\n<p>But you all know this. What, you ask, is the alternative?<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/testmy.net\">http:\/\/testmy.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>testmy.net is entirely html5 based, which does mean you&#8217;ll need a more modern browser to actually use it. That being said, not only is it blazing fast, it won&#8217;t also flood your computer with pop-ups in the process. It claims the results are more accurate &#8211; I don&#8217;t know if that&#8217;s true, but it&#8217;s certainly no less accurate, and fabulously more pleasant to use.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You&#8217;re paying for it, and by golly, you want it! You want that internet speed. But mostly, you probably want to know why it&#8217;s so slow right now that you&#8217;re about ready to go mental. 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