Are you up to speed?

Find out how fast your broadband speed really is and take part in The Consumer Forums National Broadband Speed Mapping project.

Use The Consumer Forums free Broadband SpeedFinder facility to find out how fast your broadband speed really is. At the same time you will contribute to our Broadband speed mapping project which will eventually tell you what speeds you are really getting for your money and which providers or exchanges really do provide a better deal.

Have you paid for a one megabyte or a two megabyte connection? Are you considering switching providers because you want a package which offers you up to 8 megabytes? Have you noticed that British Telecom are planning to offer up to 24 megabyte speeds from 2008 and one or two small providers already offering this now?

What do "up to" speeds really mean? Are you getting what you have paid for?

A recent Which? survey reported at http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6924866.stm shows that most people get very much less than the maximum advertised broadband speeds and some broadband suppliers are even being investigated by the Advertising Standards Agency.

It could even be that some broadband speed claims amount to misleading pricing under the Consumer Protection Act 1987.

The Consumer Forums now offers you the chance to find out for yourself and at the same time to help us build a national map of broadband suppliers and the true speeds which you can expect from them in the area in which you live.