Trump Buys SpaceX Shares After Record IPO 
Nvidia Options Price in $280 Billion Earnings Swing 
U.S. Probes Apex Logistics Over Nvidia AI Chip Shipments to China 
OpenAI AI Agent Swarm Behind Hugging Face Hack 
Pinterest Stock Falls as CFO Julia Brau Donnelly Resigns 
Meta Agrees to $18 Billion Settlement, Tightens Teen Social Media Rules 
Xiaomi Unveils Xring O3 Chip for Flagship Foldable Phone 
PayPal Shares Sink as $50 Billion Takeover Bid Collapses 
Nvidia Reportedly Eyes $13 Billion Hugging Face Acquisition 
SoftBank Eyes $20 Billion Bond Sale to Refinance OpenAI Loan 
Google Expands Gemini Enterprise With AI Tools for Legal Sector 
HP Stock Drops 9% Despite Q3 Earnings Beat and Raised 2026 Outlook 
SK Hynix Shares Fall as Workers Reject Wage Deal 
SoftBank Plans Record $6.3 Billion Bond Sale to Fund OpenAI Investments 
Samsung Shares Tumble 8% as $79 Billion Return Plan Disappoints 
Alibaba Raises $10.2 Billion to Expand AI Infrastructure 
Add as a preferred source on Google
When it comes to streaming movies or TV series via Netflix on mobile devices, high internet speeds are a must. This is why the site is launching its own speed test service app for Android and iOS devices called Fast.com, so that users will know exactly how fast their internet connection is. The service is also meant to be an alternative to sites like Speedtest.net, which can be vulnerable to tampering by internet service providers.
These days, it isn’t all the uncommon to find smartphones running at 1080p displays, Android Police notes, which means that movies being streamed are going to be transferring much more data. This inevitably leads to more demand for faster internet connections, which can be a problem if ISPs are not giving consumers the speeds that they were promised.
By launching Fast.com, Netflix is giving users the means of finding out just how fast their internet speed is and if their ISP is throttling their connection. This is not exactly an unheard of practice, particularly with the two biggest mobile carriers in the U.S.
Sites like Speedtest.net exist primarily to gauge how fast a user’s internet speed is. Any time a user notices that their internet connection is getting sluggish, they can mosey on over to the site and see just how slow the speed is. Once it’s been established that their connection really is slogging along, users can contact their internet providers to do something about it.
Unfortunately, ISPs and cellular carriers have been caught red-handed in the act of manipulating the results that users are getting from these internet speed test sites in the past, giving users a different result compared to what they are actually getting. Fast.com is meant to be the alternative that won’t be tampered with by getting the data direct from Netflix’s servers, Tech Crunch reports, thus giving users accurate internet speed readings.
Users can go to the browser version of the site or they can download the app in order to use the service. It works either way.
