I'm amazed about how much importance people attribute to the results of speed tests on the internet, as can be read on forums again and again. Measuring the connection between a server where a speed test facility is located on and your actual speed between the servers you normally address to open webpages or download from are two completely different things.
Why not just use the tools integrated in Windows - if you use Windows - to see how the speed of your download or upload using regular sites actually is at the moment you're looking?
It goes like this:
Right click on the taskbar at the bottom of your screen, left click "Start task manager, then click "Performance" in the top of the window that opens. Then it should look like this
Then click on "Resource Monitor" at the bottom right. On the window that opens you can read the total speed in the bar "Network". If you click on that you can even see which of your application is "eating" how much of it.
I deem that tool especially useful for finding out on which application a "friend" might have installed a backdoor loader or the like.
