JULY 2020 • TECH ADVISOR 67If you use Microsoft’s Bing
search engine, you can get
your results back from your
speed test back in a flashusing Bing as your search engine, simply typing ‘speed
test’ intothesearchbarwillbringupa simple,obvious
in-browserspeedtestinthelistofresults.Typingthe
same query into Google’s search engine will produce
similar results, though Google is more proactive about
tellingyouwhatit’sdoingandwhatinformationit
collects.Eachtesttakesjustafewsecondstorun.
You’reperfectlywelcometogoelsewhere,too.
Ookla’s Speedtest.net is the most common site to test
your Internet connection; all you need is a web browser
with JavaScriptturnedon(itusuallyis unlessyou
switcheditoff)andAdobeFlashinstalled.Therearea
couple of alternatives if you don’t have Flash installed