There are lots of speed testers available on the internet. I am mentioning about one which is reliable to test the speed of your broad band connection.
Eventhough your subscription scheme may be 256 kbps, the actual speed will be very less (somewhere around 60-80). You can find the real download and upload speed of your connection by going to the web site, http://www.dslreports.com/speedtest. From this site, you can click on the link Flash 8 plugin based speed test, which will open a flash page (wait for some time for the page to open). This page will list down some six or seven servers to which you can connect to and test your connection speed. Note: Select the server with more free connections available.
It will give you almost correct download and upload speeds at that point of time.
