Bath is a beautiful city in the UK. Unfortunately, as a hardware writer renting creaky, drafty, listed buildings dating from the Georgian period, that beauty does not really translate into decent internet speeds. At the very least, the latest Windows 11 preview build offers one small feature that might make my life slightly easier.
Rolling out to the Dev and Beta channel, preview build 26220.6760 will offer an internet speed check right from the Windows system tray in the taskbar. This feature is currently only accessible to Windows Insiders on Windows 11, version 24H2, and it won't mean my enduring friendship with Ookla's Speedtest.net will have to come to an end either. According to Windows Latest, Microsoft entered into a partnership with Ookla back in 2023 to provide Bing's speed test widget, and the new taskbar feature is just a more local redirect to this Bing widget.
