OldBeige.net Speed Test

Disclaimer: this test breaks above 10mbps or so. This is to test slower connections.

How fast is your connection? This test downloads about 1 MB of data through your vintage browser and times how long it takes, then compares your speed to the connection speeds of yesteryear.

How it works

• When you click Start, OldBeige.net sets a cookie and begins streaming a 1 MB HTML document to your browser.
• As the data arrives, your browser will progressively display progress (you'll see it fill up in real time).
• When the transfer completes, the page pulls the cookie and calculates time to show your measured speed and compares it to historical connection types.

Things to know

• The test measures the speed between OldBeige.net's server and your browser. If you're going through ProtoWeb or another proxy, that link is part of the measurement too.
• Results are approximate. A 28.8k modem in good conditions typically measures around 25-27 kbps.
• Some intermediate proxies may buffer the response, which can make the test appear instant. If you see a "test complete" message immediately without any progress visible, your connection is being buffered somewhere.
• Running the test does not save any data to your computer.

What the speeds mean

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