"I compared its results with those of other online test sites, and they were generally similar. But I typically rely on Ookla's Speedtest, which is one of the most popular and reliable tools and one that provides a range of network data. Second, the taskbar icon simply takes you to the Bing website, where you have to manually run the tool."
"Now available for Windows 11 insiders in the current Canary, Dev, and Beta builds, the new speed test takes you to Microsoft's Bing toolbox site to trigger it, as spotted by X account phantomofearth . After measuring your connection, the results show you the download and upload speeds as well as the latency, which checks for any delays in the travel time of your data."
Microsoft is adding a taskbar option in Windows 11 that launches a network speed test via the Bing toolbox site. The feature is available to Windows 11 Insiders in the Canary, Dev, and Beta builds. The Bing speed test measures download and upload speeds plus latency after measuring the connection. The taskbar icon opens the Bing site and requires manually running the test, and Bing's test uses Ookla for backend processing. Some Microsoft Store apps run speed tests within Windows and show results and notifications. A native Windows-integrated speed test would be more directly useful.
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