KBPS This is the UK speed test favoured by Nildram. It is an accurate test for the faster broadband connections.

Speedguide is another excellent site with tools and help for getting the best from your broadband connection. There are free tools and excellent tweaks and tips on this site. A must to get your broadband connection running at its peak.

• Z-Dnet speed test is favoured by many in the UK as the speed test to run. Worth checking here . This opens in a new window for the test.

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  Another excellent speed test using a java applet. Recommended.

• Bandwidth tests is a very comprehensive list of links where you can get your bandwidth tested. There are 105 links to try often giving different results. Check and re-check.

• Bitnet This Swedish site gives accurate speed tests in an interesting and graphical way.  This opens in a new window for the test.
• Beeline is a great little test with cheers claps and boos depending on how it performs each time. An entertain view to speed testing. This opens in a new window for the test.

• Web 100 is an excellent text based "no frills" speed test.
 First, data is streamed for 10 seconds from your desktop to the server and then a second 10 second test is performed in the opposite direction. A Web100 modified linux kernel captures detailed statistics on these TCP data flows. This data is then analyzed to determine why the connection achieved the throughput results it reported. This opens in a new window for the test.

Exchange Checkers

• ADSL Guide Find the latest and greatest broadband news in the UK, service provider information, views and comments from users like you. Looking for a new broadband ISP? Check out our ISP List and ISP Comparator. Want an answer to a question? Try our popular Message Forums

• DSL Source is a premier source for anything ADSL in the UK. As well as providing access to the best products on the market, they also offer our customers access to our technical support team, who are dedicated to making the transition to Broadband and home networking as easy as possible. With ease of use in mind, they do not offer 'cheap' re-badged 'own brand' products.

• TopComm Choose up to 6 service providers that you want to compare by ticking the box next to the company logo. Once you have made your choice simply select the measure from the selection below (scroll down) and click 'View Comparison'. Information about the company can be found by clicking on the company logo.

• Everywhere! Broadband will soon be launching its broadband internet service via satellite Backed by Eutelsat Europe's most important satellite operator, Everywhere! Broadband will be providing this service across the whole of the United Kingdom. It's easy to get connected and it's available to every home and every business, no matter where you are located

• Silvermead No more worrying about distance and whether ADSL will ever reach you - Silvermead Satellite Broadband is available anywhere in the UK! We'll provide with a starter pack with a special satellite modem, software and dish so you can surf the Internet and download at high speed!

• Exchange checker lets you know if you have a congested exchange. This is regularly updated and a quick test on your exchange.

• Blyth Exchange this is my exchange and is ADSL enabled to 8MB. More details here>>

• Can you get broadband and how fast can you get it. Use this handy number check to see how good a service you can expect from 8 meg broadband.

• Demon: I joined demon way back in 1994 and it has always been good and fast. Along with Pipex I have never had cause to complain and their technical support is excellent.

• Pipex As the UK's first commercial ISP, PIPEX has been a market leader for over a decade. We were the first ISP to bring the Internet to UK businesses and provided the first fully featured web community, enabling customers to create and promote their own websites. Nildram have recently been acquired by Pipex as a business provider, leaving Pipex to go after the low price internet business. As a result the support and help at Pipex is now very poor.

•   24 meg broadband from BE
  This is the first internet provider to offer 24meg broadband. , no doubt they won't be the last

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  UK Online offer you 22 meg bropadband plus the lowest prices* and fastest speeds across their own advanced broadband network reaching 4.4million homes across the UK. find out more...

• Metronet is rapidly becoming a contender in the low cost metered internet provider ring.

• Pipex on line mail

• Bt Broadband on line mail

• Openworld Broadband is the BT ADSL provider. This is the drivers site that you are often asked to visit when problems arise. A good site but naturally it is biased to Openworld as a product. Openworld has never let me down since I joined so I do recommend them. Check if you can get broadband in your area here>> the new BT Broadband site here>> and what all the new terms such as ADSL and FAT PIPE mean here>>

• BT New Trigger levels here>>