By Staff
February 6th, 2017
BURLINGTON, ON
Next to the weather and the amount of traffic on the QEW the upload and down load speds of your internet connection could well be the most WORDS
The map set out below is something you can access and see just what the upload and down load speeds are for where you live.
Dark blue has the best speeds. On balance the quality of service looks kind of patchy – not exactly a selling point for the city.
Odd that a part of the city the map labels as Freeman has the highest speeds – surprising is the speed available in the rural part of the city.
The city and the Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) are working in partnership to test Internet performance test for the city.
You can test your Internet connection by visiting
https://performance.cira.ca/Burlington.
The test takes just a few seconds. So far 1833 tests have been run.
The Canadian Internet Registration Authority (CIRA) manages the .CA top-level domain on behalf of all Canadians. CIRA also develops technologies and services that help support its goal of building a better online Canada. The CIRA team operates one of the fastest-growing ccTLDs, a high-performance global DNS network, and one of the world’s most advanced back-end registry solutions.
Oh, maybe I need to stop blaming Cogeco for the slow internet then!
Looked at the website, perhaps in the original editorial the FAQ should have been noted.
Used Firefox as I do use it as an alternate; connected by cable to modem, Cogeco Cable…
10mbps upload, 9.2 mbps download. MacBook Pro 15″ Late 2013, 16 Gig Ram2.3 GHz IntelCore i7
Mac OS Sierra Version 10.12.3.
A bit better? than 25 and 75 baud modems from way back when.
Hi Bruce, I am the Porduct Manager for the City IPT product at CIRA. Unfortunately, Safari does not support the websockets that are needed to run the depth of testing we deploy. But IE, Chrome AND Firefox are fully supported. Our website includes an FAQ (https://cira.ca/internet-performance-test-faq) that addresses the question “What browsers are supported?”. Hope that helps and you are able to run a test.
Seems my browser (Safari ) is not what the test group requires, they want one to use Google Chrome. No way, not me, not my Mac computers. Never!
Google is to me a US based company, not to be trusted.
Perhaps if the test group would use a more universal browser say Firefox?