FCC Makes Tool Available To Consumers So They Can See How Fast Their Internet Connection REALLY Is... Reuters

The Federal Communications Commission has a new tool that consumers can use that measures the real speed of Internet connections,Reuters reports.

Accroding to the article, "Located at www.broadband.gov, the test is aimed at allowing consumers to compare their actual speeds with the speeds advertised by their providers....[The release of the test] follows an FCC meeting in September where officials said that actual speeds were estimated to lag by as much as 50 percent during busy hours."