Is Netflix or your ISP ruining your Streaming Experience? Netflix’s Fast.com will answer

Is Netflix or your ISP ruining your Streaming Experience? Netflix’s Fast.com will answer

The next time you want to apportion blames on what’s causing your videos to stream poorly, don’t be too quick to blame Netflix. In fact, Netflix has set up its own speed test website, Fast.com where you can get information on your network connection speed.

What Fast.com essentially does, is measure your download speed on your current network; that is the only metric that determines your video quality. There is nothing fancy to the site, in fact, it is a no-brainer where you launch the web page and immediately the site beings running test. You don’t have to click anything. The site will run its test and after a short while give you the download speed on your current ISP.

So next time you are streaming videos off Netflix, and the video quality is bad, and it keeps buffering. Don’t be quick to apportion blames; it might not be a problem with Netflix but your ISP.

The good thing about Fast.com, is that it was set up by Netflix for the purpose of telling you how fast or slow is your internet connection, but more importantly, it does not serve Ads like others. Plenty of websites on the internet offer the same service, but they also serve you with loads of Ads, perhaps even requiring you to register among other things.

With Fast.com, you just enter that URL in your address bar and press Enter, wait for a few seconds and voila! You get your internet connection speed displayed to you, and you can then diagnose exactly what ruining your Friday night movies as you stream online.

If the problem is your ISP connection, and you are certain you have an active subscription that they said has a faster connection speed. Then you will have all the rights to call up your ISP and launch a complaint about their service.

Fast.com is also the best place to test your internet speed if you are having problems, particularly with Netflix. That is because it test downloads directly from Netflix’s servers, thus ideal than the other alternatives available online.

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