ISPs boast about maximum data rates, but what is the real situation? The speed depends on many factors: the time and day of the week, the load of the communication channel, the technical condition of the servers, the condition of the communication lines and even the weather. When buying a certain package of services, you want to be sure that the money is not paid in vain, and the Internet speed corresponds to the declared one.

We will check with the help of special services on the network, because this is the most convenient, affordable and accurate way to determine the speed of the Internet. Speed ​​is measured from the computer to the server running the service. Accordingly, the indicators from different services will differ.

Measured:

  • incoming speed, i.e. the one with which we download from the Internet
  • outgoing - the speed of information delivery, i.e. when data is transmitted from our computer, for example, when you send an email or file, or a torrent is opened.

As a rule, these two indicators differ, for me - up to three times, depending on what to test. The outbound speed is usually slower because it is used less frequently.

The baud rate is measured in kilo- or mega-BITS. One byte contains 8 bits plus an overhead pair of bits. This means that with a result of 80 Mbit / s, the actual speed is 8 MB per second. Each speed test consumes about 10-30 megabytes of traffic!

Ookla SpeedTest

The best service for today, sharpened for testing the bandwidth of the Internet connection. Precisely determines the maximum possible speed for your computer at the moment.

To start the test, press the big button "START". The service will determine the optimal server and start transmitting data. During testing, the current speed is displayed. It usually grows as the process progresses.

Pay attention to what indicators are determined:

Very roughly good values ​​for wired internet:

  • "Download" - incoming speed: 30-70 Mbps
  • "Download" - upstream speed: 10-30 Mbps
  • "PING": 3-30 ms

For mobile 3G / 4G internet:

  • incoming: 5-10 Mbps
  • outgoing: 1-2 Mbps
  • PING: 15-50 ms

PING is an important indicator, it is the time it takes to establish a connection. The closer the server is, the lower the value and the better.

SpeedTest has servers all over the globe, so your location and the closest server are determined first, then the test data is transmitted. The measured speed is the highest possible for your computer at a given time. This is achieved due to the fact that the server for data exchange is located in your city or region, and the closer the server is to the computer, the higher the speed. But you can choose any server!

Thus, it turns out that we will get a speed that is not achievable for most sites on the internet, well, because their servers are located further away. Thanks to this "trick" I got the best results. The figures obtained can be compared with those stated by the provider, but the real speed on the Internet is still lower.

The speedtest has applications for smartphones:

After testing, a permanent link to the results and a picture is provided, which you can brag about in social networks

By checking the speed several times in a row, you will notice that it is different each time. It depends on the load of the provider and the server. Therefore, I recommend that you run the test several times and calculate the average speed, this will be more correct.

After registration, the history of all checks becomes available and the ability to compare them, which is also important. You can run a test from time to time and then look at the history for a year, and in a graphical representation. It will immediately become clear where your provider is developing (or, on the contrary, it will turn out that it is time to change it).

SpeedTest app for Windows 10

Using the application, you can find out what the quality of your Internet connection is.

Communication quality differs from speed. For example, a file may be downloading at a breakneck speed and suddenly the download is interrupted, you have to start over. After the end of the test in the application, you need to click on the results:

To determine the quality of communication, the following indicators are used:

  • Ripple (jitter) - phase ripple, the less the better. Up to 5 ms.
  • Packet loss - how many percent of the data was lost and had to be re-sent. Should be 0%

Internet meter from Yandex

Unlike Speedtest, Yandex's service measures the speed of data transfer between your laptop and its servers, only its own. It turns out that here the speed should turn out to be lower than in the speed test, but it is closer to reality for working in RuNet.

Press the "Measure" button and wait for a while while Yandex is testing. The time will depend on the speed itself, and if it is too low, or there are interruptions in communication, then the test may freeze or end with an error.

Yandex tests in the following way: it downloads and uploads a test file several times, and then calculates the average value. Strong dips are cut off for better accuracy. Nevertheless, after each repeated check, I got different results with an error of 10-20%, which in principle is quite normal, since speed - the indicator is not constant and jumps all the time. It was during the day, and then I tested early in the morning and the result jumped with a difference of up to 50%.

Yandex Internet meter also shows the IP address and detailed technical information about the browser.

Service 2ip.ru

I have been using this wonderful service for a long time. The 2ip.ru service will also show you, give complete information at this address, check any of your files for viruses, tell you a lot of interesting things about any site on the Internet (IP, site engine, presence of viruses, distance to the site, its availability, etc.).

2ip determines your provider, the optimal server and checks the speed between you and this server, just like SpeedTest.Net, but 2ip has fewer servers, so the PING will be higher. But there are statistics on the average speed in your city and your provider. With each repeated test, my speed changed insignificantly - within 10%.

Another service that works in HTML5, without Flash or Java, however, like the previous services.

OpenSpeedTest will help you measure the bandwidth between Western servers. You will notice that the pings have become even larger.


Works stably, averages the values ​​obtained, fairly predictable and repeatable results.

The service is not of particular interest for testing high-speed Internet, but it may be of interest to those who use a modem or other not the fastest Internet. The results show the average results for different network interfaces (modem, coaxial cable, Ethernet, Wi-Fi) and yours for comparison.

There is a percentage accuracy of measurements. It is calculated based on whether the speed was stable during the data transfer, or jumped strongly. The more stable, the higher the accuracy.

Separately, I will note the testing method using. To do this, we take a torrent with a large number of seeds and see the real speed of data reception.

For everyone, before testing it is desirable:

  • Close all programs except the browser (especially those that can download something) and leave only one tab of the speed testing service active
  • Wait until the end or stop all downloads in your browser!
  • Check if any program is using the network. To do this, open the "Task Manager" using the "Ctrl + Shift + Esc" buttons, go to the "Performance" tab and click on the network adapter. If there are several of them, then there will be only one with the data:

See how much data was sent and transferred in the last minute. If no program uses the network, then there should be units-tens, maximum one hundred kbps. Otherwise, reboot and check again.

Summing up

Finally, I want to say that not a single service was able to determine the maximum possible indicators for my Internet connection. I say this because when downloading from torrents, my speed reaches 10 MB / s. This happens by downloading from various sources scattered around the world at the same time (this is how torrents work). And the services work with only one server, albeit a powerful one. Therefore, I can recommend the uTorrent program as a tester, but it works on active distributions, where there are dozens of seeders.

Do not forget that the low speed may be due to, or due to a weak Wi-Fi adapter. In the comments, please write your results and do not forget to upload the article to social networks.

Video review:

When buying the services of a provider, we hope that the speed of the Internet connection will be exactly as specified in the contract. Well, or almost like that. However, in practice, it rarely matches the figures on paper, because it is influenced by a lot of factors - from network congestion to the state of the client device - a computer, smartphone, tablet or Smart TV. In addition, in the contract, the provider indicates the maximum, and not the actual connection speed. However, if the latter is constantly and much lower than the former, the quality of the service can be questioned.

To control the work of the provider and just be aware of the real speed of the Internet, you need to know how to determine it. Fortunately, for this there is a large number of special software and free web services, which we will get acquainted with today. But let's start with what capabilities the Windows operating system has in this regard. We will also find out how to get the most reliable result.

Windows built-in capabilities

The easiest and fastest way to see the current speed of your Internet connection is in the Task Manager on the Performance tab. If the network is poorly loaded, the graph in the "Bandwidth" window will be low; if it is strong, the window will fill almost completely with it, and the speed shown in the upper right corner will be close to that specified in the contract with the provider. This should be normal. If, with a strong network load, the speed remains low, then there is an obstacle somewhere. Only where - at your place or at his place?

To find out the maximum achievable (in theory) Internet speed for a particular type of connection, open the "Network Connections" folder and select the "Status" section in the context menu of your network.

The required information is contained in the "General" tab.

The real speed is usually 2-3 times lower than the maximum. By the way, when transferring data via Wi-Fi and cable, it can differ significantly.

Let's say you have established that the Internet on your computer should be faster. The next task is to find out who is responsible for the slowdown - your devices or your ISP.

How to check your Internet speed manually

To get the most reliable result, you need to check the Internet speed on the computer to which the provider's network cable is connected. If it is not possible to insert the cable directly into the computer, for example, if it only supports wireless connections or binds the connection to the MAC address of the router, disconnect all other devices from the Internet for the duration of the test.

  • Prepare a 1 GB file and select any cloud web service to which you will upload it, for example, Yandex Drive or Google Drive. It is important that the service does not limit the speed of uploading and downloading content.
  • Close all programs using the network and the Internet in order to unload the channel as much as possible.
  • Disable VPN clients and proxy servers if they are not required to establish WAN access.
  • Time yourself and start uploading the file to the cloud server. Note the download end time.
  • Download the file back to your PC under time control.

Knowing the file size in megabytes and the number of seconds it took to transfer it, you can easily calculate the Internet speed in Mbps. If it is close to the one specified in the contract, then the provider will fulfill its obligations to you, and the reason for the slowdown is in your devices. If not, then the opposite is true.

For those of you who don't want to do computing, you can check your Internet speeds using the methods discussed below. For reliability, we advise you to perform the check several times within an hour.

Web services

Checking the Internet speed using the 2ip service is as easy as shelling pears: press the "Test" button and wait 1-2 minutes.

In addition to ping rates, as well as incoming and outgoing speeds, 2ip allows you to find out:

  • Average speed indicators of the Internet in your city.
  • Average speed indicators among subscribers of your provider.
  • The best tests for all providers for the current day.
  • The total number of measurements among all providers.

Such a kind of benchmark. Below on the page is a table of the last ten measurements.

By the way, as of the date of the audit, none of the largest leaders in the provider services market in the Russian Federation, Belarus, Ukraine and Kazakhstan - Rostelecom, ByFly, Ukrtelecom, Kazakhtelecom, MTS, Beeline, Akado, Iota, Dom.ru, Citylink and TTK, never became record holder. The first places were taken by small and not very well-known companies.

And further. If you have something to tell other users about the services of your Internet provider, you can leave a review on the site.

Is another simple free service of a similar purpose. To start the check, just click the "Start" button. The result will be displayed on the screen in a couple of minutes.

By the way, if you sign up for Speedtest (it's also free), you can save the test results in your account and share links to them with other users.

In addition to the web service available online through a browser from any device, SpeedTest exists as an application for stationary (Windows, Mac OS X) and mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Amazon) platforms.

Yandex.Internetometer

The Yandex.Internetometer service determines the speed of incoming and outgoing connections without ping. However, in addition to this, it shows detailed information about your internet connection, operating system and the browser in which you ran the check. It's a pity that benchmarks and the ability to save test results are not provided here.

Press the "Measure" button to start the test. The result, like that of competitors, appears on the screen in 1-2 minutes.

It is very reminiscent of the set of functions of the service of the same name in the "ru" domain and differs from it only in the design style. In addition to the button for testing the speed of the Internet, this resource contains the rating of Ukrainian providers and the indicators of the last 20 checks.

For users with Russian IP, the site 2ip.ua opens in Russian, for residents of Ukraine - in Ukrainian.

To start testing, click the "Test" button. The result will be displayed after the same time as the others.

Banki.ru

Banki.ru uses 2 tests provided by telecommunications company Wellink. One of them is the traditional check of the response time (ping), incoming and outgoing Internet speeds, the second is checking the quality of watching videos online. Based on the testing results, the service displays a brief description of your connection: how quickly a new episode of the film will open, how long it will take to download an album and upload a photo to a social network, what video quality is optimal for your connection, whether the picture will freeze when watching videos through a browser.

The use of the service on Banki.ru is no different from the others.

Free software for testing Internet speed on PC and mobile devices

If you use the above services several times in a row, you will notice that the Internet bandwidth indicators will always be different. This is normal, but not entirely informative, especially when communication is intermittent. Applications, unlike web services, allow you to monitor network traffic continuously. And this is their main advantage.

NetTraffic for Windows

The utility, released in the installation and portable versions, is a small window constantly hanging in the corner of the screen, where the connection speed is displayed in real time.

In addition to the current data, it collects traffic statistics for the time intervals specified by the user. Can monitor multiple network interfaces at the same time.

TMeter for Windows

- a more advanced tool for monitoring Internet traffic than the previous utility, but also very simple to understand and use. In addition to speed parameters, it collects statistics about the IP addresses of the visited resources, ports, protocols, etc.

Tmeter has a built-in firewall and traffic distributor (traffic shaper) between LAN devices. These functions become available if the program is running on a computer that is used as a gateway for other devices to connect to the Internet.

The utility is designed to monitor the entire flow of information passing through the network adapter, including the data transfer rate. Initially, it is in English, but a crack has been released for it (available on the download page), which you just need to copy to the folder with the executable file or program archive.

NetworkTrafficView works without installation and does not require any special settings. Connection data is displayed in a table in the main and only window of the utility.

Internet speed test for Android

The Internet Speed ​​Test mobile application is not only stylishly designed, but also very functional. In addition to collecting the main speed characteristics of Wi-Fi and 2 / 3G networks, it displays the delay time for sending packets, allows you to select a test server (its availability and remoteness affect the performance), accumulates statistics and publishes the results of checks on social networks.

Another convenient application is that it supports even very old versions of Android.

Meteor - speed test for Android

Meteor - Speed ​​Test is one of the few mobile apps that has received the highest user rating - 4.8 points. It not only shows the real speed of the Internet connection, but also determines how fast popular network programs will work with the current connection quality. Such programs include social media clients, browsers, Gmail, YouTube, Skype, WhatsApp, Wase navigator, Google Maps, Uber taxi service, etc. There are 16 different applications in total.

Other advantages of Meteor are that it supports all kinds of network connections, including 4G, and does not contain ads.

Good day. Often, computer users experience discomfort when surfing and working on the World Wide Web. Data exchange is difficult, video clips download, computer game lovers complain about slow pings and delays in games. Before making a claim to your providers, you should make sure that the fault is not on our side, for this in the article we will tell you how to check the Internet speed on a Windows 7,8,1 computer online using the most popular and demanded services.

There are a huge number of online services for checking connection speed. Below we will consider the most common Internet resources, time-tested.

How to use Speedtest

The speed test is perhaps the most famous of all, with which we will begin today's review. Before starting the testing process, go to the website of your Internet provider, then to your personal account and see the declared speed. Often this item is displayed in the "Tariffs" column. When concluding a contract for the use of Internet services, the speed is also indicated in it. Many providers “sin” by suddenly changing tariffs and connection plans.

Please note that Internet service providers promise speeds "up to" a certain rate. For example, the declared standard "up to 150 Mbit" per second can actually produce only 5-10 Mbit of real performance. Small and young start-up offices often sin with this.

Another important point. Before starting various Internet tests, we must disable all file downloads. We turn off torrent trackers, tabs with running music or video, programs that need access to the Internet such as STEAM (at this moment, the game can easily be updated). Your best bet is to launch your browser and open one tab.
Made? Let's start the test.

In addition to checking your IP, the site provides virus check services, ensuring anonymity on the network, as well as checking Internet speed online for free.

As you can see, 2ip gave us indicators higher than on SpeedTest, because their servers are closer to us.

How to check the Internet speed of Rostelecom

We open the page with verification by Rostelecom. We carry out the indicated recommendations. The third point is very important. If the computer is directly connected with a cable, great. When using a router, it is recommended to turn off Wi-Fi on connected devices: tablets, telephones, laptops. We click on the blue button "Start testing" and wait for the table with the results.

Surprisingly, the ping in this service turned out to be higher in comparison with the previous methods.
Not many people know that our Russian company Yandex also has an Internet connection tester, below we will briefly familiarize ourselves with its capabilities and interface.

We test the Internet connection - Internet meter from Yandex

On the Internetometer page, in addition to the usual test, a lot of useful information is displayed: IPv4 address and IPv6 address, browser version, operating system, location region, and even Flash version. By clicking on the yellow "Measure" button, the verification process will start. As a result, the result will be displayed in the plate.

Internetometer from Yandex - results

Many users often confuse the idea of ​​speeds in Megabits and Megabytes, Yandex developers have foreseen this point. As you can see, 18.22 Megabits equals 2.28 Megabytes per second. It is at this speed that files will be downloaded from the World Wide Web.

To convert Megabits to Megabytes by yourself, it is enough to divide the result by 8.

Conclusion

Real Spartans have read to the end and tried the methods proposed above, we hope there will be no more questions on how to check the Internet speed on a Windows computer online 7,8,10. Interestingly, which of the ways do our readers use? Write your answers in the comments on the site or our group in contact. If you have questions about online services, suggest topics that are interesting to your attention, which we will consider in the following articles.
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Hello site readers IT lessons. Today we will deal with the popular question “ how to correctly measure the speed of an Internet connection?»Everyone is interested to know if we are getting those megabits per second that we paid for and why sometimes files or sites load well, oh, very slowly ...

In this IT lesson, the knowledge gained in the previous two lessons will be useful to you: "" and ""

Of course, you would like to press one button and quickly find out your speed ... this is also possible, but the accuracy will not be high. In addition, you need to take into account some factors that affect the data transfer rate and the result of its testing.

The lesson is great, if you need to find something specific, you can use the content:

What affects internet speed?

First, let's figure out what can affect the quality of measuring the speed of the Internet connection. And there are many such factors:

  • Speed with whom you contact, checking the speed of the Internet (this can also include the speed of access to the site from which you download something)
  • Speed ​​and settings if your computer is connected to the local network through it
  • Working on the computer at the time of check
  • Antiviruses and firewalls running in the background
  • Computer and operating system settings

In most cases, the most important item on this list will be the first item - server speed. Let's give you some illustrative examples.

Example 1.
If you connect your computer to a local network using a cable (twisted pair), then connection speed with another computer on the same network(in your city) will be very large, for example, 70 Mbps .

Example 2.
Now we measure the speed between our computer and some a server on the other side of the country... Maybe we'll get about 20 Mbps .

Example 3.
Let's imagine that all 800 regular readers of the IT-lessons site connected to this server at once, and started downloading different files. Communication speed with a loaded server will decrease and for you it will be, for example, 3 Mbps .

Example 4.
Now let's try to download the file from a server in another country, for example, in Australia, we get less 1 Mbps!

Now, I think, it is clear that the measured speed depends on which server you have chosen to check: its location, its own maximum speed and its load affect. That is, you need to understand that:

The speed of all servers (containing sites and files) is different and depends on the capabilities of these servers.

The same applies to other points (for example, the connection speed will differ when connected to the network directly or through a router, and will also depend on the characteristics of this router).

How to improve the accuracy of the check

It is advisable to complete these points if you want to get the most accurate result of checking the speed of the Internet connection. If approximate measurements are enough for you, then you can proceed to the next section of the lesson.

  1. Connect the network cable directly to the computer(in )
  2. Close all programs, except for the browser (in which there should be one bookmark with this IT lesson)
  3. Stop programs downloading in the background(torrent clients, download managers, etc.), except for those that you have chosen to test the speed of the Internet
  4. Disable the antivirus temporarily (do not forget to enable it later). in some cases, it can affect the readings of online tests.
  5. Launch the Task Manager (simultaneously hold down the Ctrl + Shift + Esc keys) and go to the "Network" tab. Make sure the network is not loaded (Network Usage should be less than 1%). If the network is actively used, it is possible that a program or Windows update is taking place. In this case, wait for the download to finish or restart your computer.

Network usage in the task manager (green line jump - the process of checking the speed of the Internet connection)

Moreover, each measurement needs to be carried out several times to improve testing accuracy.

How to measure the speed of an Internet connection

There are several ways to measure your internet connection speed. Let's consider them in increasing complexity of use.

  1. Online services

Since we are now at the "Beginner" level, we will consider the first method in detail, and for experienced users I will briefly describe the remaining two.

Method 1. Measuring speed using online services

This is the one the easiest way to measure"Press one button and learn everything quickly." The accuracy is relative, but the simplicity is attractive. 🙂

note that online tests have different accuracy!

I will tell you only about the most popular services.

SPEEDTEST.NET

Let's start with The most popular and most accurate online internet speed test(also free). I will dwell on it in more detail and advise all readers of the site to start using this particular method.

Here's a quick guide:

2. Find the button " Start check"And click it:

Click the "Start Checkout" button

3. At the end of testing, you see three results:

First number denoted by the word "Ping" (read "ping"), means network packet transmission time... The lower the number, the better the connection quality (preferably less than 100ms).

The second number is the speed of data retrieval... It is this figure that providers advertise when connecting (it is for these megabits per second that you pay your honestly earned rubles / hryvnia / dollars / yuan 🙂).

The third number is the baud rate... As you can see, it can be noticeably lower than the receiving speed, and the provider is silent about this (but, in most cases, a high outgoing Internet speed is rarely required).

If you want to measure the speed of the Internet connection with a particular city, then select it on the map (all major cities of the planet are available) and press the "Start check" button again.

Thus, you can check the examples I have given for yourself.

The creator of the "speedtest" has another interesting online service that checks internet connection qualityhttp://pingtest.net/.
On the main site of the company there are many more interesting possibilities for testing network connections http://www.ookla.com/.

Other online services for checking Internet speed

The principle of operation is the same for all services: they pressed a button, waited, received a number ... but the results are different.

2. Add several downloads from different fast file servers, for example this (test archive) and this (Linux distribution)

3. We expose in the settings maximum number of threads(sections for injection)

4. Watching the maximum speed file uploads:

The maximum speed achieved is highlighted in the image with a red rectangle.

What speed do I need to download movies?

We learned how to measure the speed of data transfer over the Internet, now let's see where it can be applied.

Let's say we want to download medium quality movie which usually takes 1.4 Gigabytes... Let's calculate, at different speeds:

  • Speed 100 kbps- about 32 hours (we'd better not wait until the movie is downloaded using the mobile Internet)
  • Speed 1 Mbps- such a movie will be loaded for 3 hours
  • Speed 3 Mbps- 1 hour download
  • Speed 15 Mbps- less than 15 minutes to download
  • Speed 50 Mbps- about 4 minutes
  • Speed 100 Mbps- about 2 minutes

Compare with time music downloads(for example, an mp3 file in good quality, about 10 MB in size):

  • Speed 100 kbps- less than 15 minutes download
  • Speed 1 Mbps- 1.5 minutes download
  • Speed 3 Mbps- 0.5 minutes

It is worth remembering that there is a guaranteed speed and a speed not guaranteed by the provider (we figured it out in the IT lesson).

Outcome

So, today we learned how to check the speed of the Internet (Internet connection) in three ways. We learned that in addition to speed, we need to take into account the quality of the connection, which is indicated by "ping" (we will deal with it separately). And also, we have clearly estimated what speed will be sufficient to download the movie. Thus, we have completed the topic of units of measurement of information and data transfer rate. What's next?

Have you already guessed? Of course, the test! This time there will be few questions, but I advise you to reread (including this one). If you are ready, then here

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Learning to correctly measure the speed of the Internet connection. With the help of what resources you can correctly check the Internet, what parameters you need to look at and how to determine whether a good result is in front of you.

I will definitely tell you about Megabits and Megabytes, they are often confused, and I will also tell you what Ping is and why, because of it, people are often kicked out of online games. In general, I will show in detail how to find out the Internet speed on a computer.

Introduction

Hello everyone, today I decided to write an article that will allow me to qualitatively analyze the speed of the Internet connection. You can find a lot of materials from different sources, where one way or another it is shown where to go and what numbers to look at. But then you repeated all this on your computer, you saw numbers, large or small, with different units of measurement.

You sit, look at them, sometimes you even rejoice, but what does this data mean? It was highlighted for you, for example: Input - 10 Mbit / s, Outcome - 5 Mbit / s, Ping - 14 and what's next, it's good for you, or if you look at it without bending your heart, then you say that these numbers are nothing for you do not speak? And in most cases, everything is exactly like that, the result is visible, but we cannot analyze it, because we do not know what each direction means.

Fun conversation with a friend

In the general article, I decided to write on this topic, just yesterday. I talked with a friend, and it so happened that we started talking about the Internet. He asks me - Vanek, what is your internet speed? Well, I said, I pay 300 rubles for 8 MB / s. Without hesitation, an acquaintance replied, well, you have Internet bullshit, I have it for only 250 rubles 30 Mbit / s. The whole thing was also said with such a clever look, I could not restrain myself, laughed when I walked away, immediately thought - this is the topic for a new article.

Understanding users have already figured out what the catch is, but for those who did not catch it, we carefully read the article and absorb useful knowledge. Probably another 15 minutes I had to explain to a friend that he was a little mistaken with the choice of the Internet and the money he pays can be spent more reasonably armed with a good Internet. I won't mumble a lot, let's move on.

How is internet speed measured?

In order to understand and correctly analyze the speed of Internet connections, you need to be well versed in the units of measurement with which you will actually measure your Internet in the future.

It’s very important, it’s necessary, well, it’s necessary, it’s necessary, otherwise it’s just not possible. After all, when you come to the store, you tell the seller how many kilograms of apples to sell to you, or you yourself calculate how many kilograms of potatoes you need to buy in order to have enough for at least a week for the whole family, even corny consider how many grams of sweets to buy so that you have enough money to pay off. Now let's get to the point.

When you start wondering about the Internet, you are confronted with two units of measurement - these will be Megabits and Megabytes. Let's go in order.

The MEGA prefix is ​​a millionaire prefix, you do not need to pay special attention to them, it is just an abbreviation, replacing the number 10 to the 6th degree. Once again, we do not look at the prefix, we follow everything that is written further, namely, we look at the BITS and BYTS. (megaBIT, mega BYTE)

Bit is the smallest unit of measure used in computing in the "computer world", think of a bit as one unit - 1

A byte is naturally also a unit of measurement, but it contains 8 bits, which means a byte is eight times larger than a bit.

Once again, BYTE is 8 bits.

Examples. When testing internet speed, you may be shown:

30 Mbps or 3.75 Mbps, where you will understand that these are two identical numbers. That is, when you made measurements and they showed you the result in megabits, you can safely divide it by 8 and get a real result. In our example, 30 Mbps / 8 = 3.75 Mb

Have not yet forgotten about my conversation with a friend, now you can go back and see why I did not agree with my friend, what was his mistake? Look, count, it will be useful for consolidation.

In addition to units of measurement for a competent analysis of the Internet connection, you need to know that there are two types of connections. Incoming and outgoing.

It's not difficult at all, but you need to read it once in order to just know. Incoming information is everything that you download to your computer, watch online, listen to music, in general, everything that you view on the Internet will be called incoming traffic.

But when your computer transmits information, let's say you are playing an online game and small packets of information that control the actions in the game, or for example, you upload a photo to a social network, necessarily leave your computer, all this will be considered outgoing traffic.

Remember:

All we take on the internet is incoming traffic.

All that we give to the Internet is outgoing traffic.

Now a little advice, you can ignore the outgoing traffic when analyzing. Why? Because with good indicators of the incoming Internet connection, the outgoing one will automatically be good. They go in a complex, but you need to remember that the speed of incoming information is always higher, sometimes even twice, but this is not scary.

When measuring the speed of the Internet, you will see such pictures and this is normal:

I think we have figured out the numbers less and now you can easily analyze the speed of the Internet connection as accurately as possible. Although it is probably worth making a small digression to suggest what speed will be enough and for what purpose.

What kind of Internet do I need for stable work?

Here is a table that will serve as a hint to this question, and if you have not figured it out, then write in the comments to this article, as soon as I see it, I will immediately write the answer.

A task Internet connection speed Classification
Viewing text and graphic information 10 Mbps or 1 Mbps Slow Internet
Watch online movies, listen to music, play, chat on Skype 20 Mbps to 40 Mbps Nice, multitasking.
Working on the Internet, downloading large amounts of information, high quality videos and other high loads 80 Mbps and above Universal for all occasions

I often hear the question, but with such an Internet, how long will it take to download a movie? To be honest, such questions annoy me a little, if you know how to count, then why not do this, adults and elderly people of the past generation are forgivable, but now young people should be educated and instantly give out information of interest, so I will not even write about this, but just in case I will show the principle of calculation in the video, so after reading the text, do not be lazy to devote a couple of minutes to watching the video.

And besides this, you should always remember that a virus can get on your computer and the speed will be reduced several times,

Where can i test internet speed?

As I said at the beginning, there are a lot of different resources that provide an opportunity, so to speak, to weigh, measure your Internet. But as practice shows, only some of them work stably and can give correct information, and not fantasize ...

yandex.ru/internet- for me this is the best resource for measuring the Internet.

speedtest.net/ru/- a mega popular site for determining speed, but it works fine for me only after the second scan. After the first time, it shows not real numbers, so I immediately run it a second time and get a normal, real result.

2ip.ru/speed/- the site knows how to do a lot of useful things, I like it, but unfortunately it often cheats with measuring the Internet, but it gives some useful information, who serves it, which provider and where the service site is located.

By the way, examples of pictures, I took just from these sites, in the video I will show each site separately, and you yourself will choose which one you like best. When you analyze the results obtained, you may notice another interesting parameter - Ping (ping)

What is ping on the Internet?

This parameter can often be heard, especially among those who like to play online games. These types of people are, to be honest, a little obsessed with pings during the game.

I even had a case 7-8 years ago when I log into the game myself, as I remember now - it was Counter-Strike. Well, I went in, I'm playing, here I hear a lot of fuss, shouts and discontent, and in every sentence they shout a high ping, let's kick him out. And in fact, the general vote kicked me out of the room, of course I was not very happy, but there is nothing to do.

That day I spent several hours studying the word ping, damned at that moment for me.

But in fact, the essence of its work is very simple, I will not load your heads, but I will only say that this is also a unit of measurement that shows the speed of data transfer from your computer to the server.

Now, quite simply, you entered the game, at the moment when you perform any action for you, the character simply makes a movement. And on the technical side, in order to even just move your character from place, the computer must send a command (a packet of files) to the server, and the time that these files will fly to the server, processed there and returned back will be called a ping.

In fact, it turns out Ping is the speed of data exchange between the computer and the server.

What determines the ping, how can it be reduced?

Everything is quite simple here, the first and main reason is the physical distance between your computer and the game server. For example, you play in Mosvka, and the server is in China, it turns out a very long distance and therefore it takes more time to transfer packets with data. And at this moment we are swearing they say the game lags.

Naturally, the ping will be affected by the speed of your Internet, the faster the connection, the lower the ping will be. Next, you need to understand that ping can increase if the transmission line is overloaded, that is, your provider serves not only your apartment, but your whole house or street, and if everyone at the same time decided to surf the Internet, then you get a little chaos.

Rational use of traffic is when you are sitting at home on the Internet via Wi-Fi, playing, while your parents are watching TV shows through the same Wi-Fi at the same time, your little sister is sitting in a tablet in the next room and playing her games. The more people use the access point at the same time, the lower the Internet speed becomes and the ping increases accordingly.

There are three ways to lower the ping:

  • Change your provider or tariff plan to a more powerful one
  • Make some changes to the operating system registry (not significant improvement)
  • Loading specialized software. (we immediately throw this method out of our heads and use the first two)

Realized what's what? I think that you all understood a long time ago, so I will round off. Below you can find a video to consolidate the material you have read, do not be lazy, you need to watch it.

Watch video: How to find out the Internet speed on your computer?

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