How to measure network speed

Measuring network speed is a necessity of those who are using the internet or 3G, 4G want to know whether their home network speed is fast or slow. Normally when we install the internet, we will register according to the network's package such as: 10Mb, 20Mb, 50Mb . etc. we are not much at all. The following article TipsMake.com will guide you how to measure extremely simple network speed that anyone can do whether on a computer or smartphone, please follow along.

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Step 1: You open the browser on your computer or phone and then visit the address: http://www.speedtest.net/

You will be taken to the website as shown below:

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Step 2: You or click the Go button in the middle of the screen to conduct network speed measurement.

The site will first display the Download speed:

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Then is the upload speed, ie the upload speed:

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Finally, the statistics table will appear:

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There are 3 indicators we need to consider:

PING : Ping is the network delay, the lower this value is, the more stable the network. For example, when you play online games and the ping index of 100-200ms, the game will lag lag, while the ping index of about 1-2ms will play very smoothly.

Download : This is an indicator of the download speed of your home internet. But this is not the actual download speed, when you download a file on the network, the highest download speed is only equal to 1/8 of the measured speed and it depends on the server that contains the file you download.

Upload : This is an indicator of the upload speed of the internet, for example, you send mail, upload photos to Facebook, send files, etc., that's the upload. Note that if you use an optical cable, the upload speed will be the same as the download, while if it is copper, the upload speed will be very low, only 1/10 of the download.

Above is a tutorial on how to measure network speed with just a few simple steps, in addition to using speedtest.net website as above, you can use another speed test website that is fast.com to have better appreciation. Thank you for following the article.