Key Highlights
- You have plenty of options across the internet to choose from, of course, but if you have a PC, you're about to get one built right into the OS—at least, in theory. Windows' "built-in" network speed test tool is really a shortcutAs part of the latest Release Preview Channel update for Windows 11 Insiders, Microsoft rolled out a network speed test tool, though "shortcut" might be a more appropriate word.
- This shortcut isn't its own app; rather, you access it directly from the taskbar.
- You right-click the network icon, choose the "Perform speed test" option, and, subsequently, Windows fires up your browser.
- You'll see Bing load up—even if you have another search engine of choice as your default—where a simplified "Internet speed test" tool appears.
- While I wouldn't blame you for assuming this tool was a Microsoft creation, it's actually made by Speedtest, of speedtest. net fame.
