Measure download speed. Accurate internet speed check. What you need to know about an ISP

Hello everybody! Sometimes it is necessary to check the internet speed. In this article, I'll show you several ways!

Delay- time before data loading. The lower the score, the better.

Wobble - how stable the Internet connection is. The lower the indicator, the more stable.

Unloading - download speed of data from your computer.

The fewer programs use the Internet, the more accurate your speed will be displayed.

You can check the speed with my plugin above or ...

Check internet speed in SpeedTest

http://www.speedtest.net/ru - This is the most popular service on the Internet. Over time, it has established itself and it measures the most accurately of all services. There are, of course, glitches, like everyone else, but in most cases it shows exactly.

It is enough to press START and the service will automatically find the server closest to you and measure the speed.

If suddenly something does not show exactly, try to select the service manually.

2ip

https://2ip.ru/speed/ Is another service that allows you to measure speed.

Click Test, after which the speed measurement will begin. If the measurement is not accurate, we try to choose another site.

Yandex

https://yandex.com/internet/ - and one more most accurate test from Yandex.

Here we just click to measure the speed.

Internet speed tester

If you don't feel like constantly browsing services, there is a program that can measure the Internet.

It does not require installation (portable). Therefore, we select the version for the bitness of the system and run it. We look forward to further, further and done.

A new icon will appear in the tray, where the clock is. We wait with the right mouse button and click to measure the speed.

We are waiting for the start!

The program will show the ping, and the speed of the incoming and outgoing.

Only the speed is shown not in MBit (internet connection), but in MByte (download speed per second). Therefore, if you need to know the connection speed, then we multiply this figure by 8. 11.3 * 8 \u003d 90.4 MB, i.e. correct, my connection is 100MB.

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 if 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, we see the result, 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 an acquaintance, 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 answered, well, you have the Internet, I have only 30 Mbps for 250 rubles. The whole thing was also said with such an intelligent air, 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, and 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.

This is very important, it is necessary, well, it’s necessary, it’s necessary, otherwise it’s just nothing. 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 trite 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 faced with two units of measurement - these will be Megabits and Megabytes. Let's go in order.

The MEGA prefix is \u200b\u200ba millionaire prefix, you do not need to pay special attention to them, this is just a reduction, 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 \u003d 3.75 Mb

You have not yet forgotten about my conversation with a friend, now you can go back and see why I disagreed 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 have to read it once 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 outgoing traffic when analyzing. Why? Because with good indicators of the incoming Internet connection, the outgoing one will automatically be good. They are 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.

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.
Browsing 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, and 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 in 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 it 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 can 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. This type of people is, to be honest, a little obsessed with pings while playing.

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, and 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 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 read, do not be lazy, you need to watch it.

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

Well, have you finished reading? Then we go down below and write our comment on this article, otherwise how will I know if you have read it at all or not? See you soon, friends.

If your Internet pages are loading for a long time or video on YouTube slows down, you should first look at the speed of your Internet connection. How to see the Internet speed on Windows 7 or Windows 10 is discussed below.

Note! Certain processes can affect the accuracy of the results. Before testing, turn off video, music, file downloads, etc.

Windows standard tools

First of all, you need to know what speed your provider provides you. You can use standard system tools for viewing.

Advice! If there is an agreement with a provider nearby, then you can look at the speed of the Internet connection in it.

  1. On the toolbar, click the PMC on the Internet connection icon.
  2. Open Network & Internet Settings.
  3. Next, go to the "Network and Sharing Center".
  4. Click on the "Ethernet" icon to see the connection speed.

Internet speed test

Now let's move on to online services that give us the opportunity to see the speed of the Internet connection in a few clicks.

Yandex Internetometer

This is a popular service from Yandex that is used by most users.


As you can see, there is nothing difficult. All actions take place automatically.

This service is popular all over the world, not only in Russia. It pretty accurately determines the maximum download speed limit and indicates the ping.


It's worth noting that the results are pretty accurate. The service has gained popularity all over the world for a reason.

2ip

A site with a huge number of possibilities. Starting from checking IP and Ports, ending with checking passwords for vulnerability. The most functional site of the entire RuNet.


Additionally, the site will show your location, browser, IP and provider.

The service is designed for German users, but this does not prevent us from using it.

After finishing you will be able to see the speed, ping and location.

Stable and fast internet Is something without which it is difficult to imagine a modern computer.

The concept of high Internet speed is different for each user, some people only need a connection with the transfer and download of data at 20 Mbit per second, others need at least 500 Mbit.

It is very easy to check the speed of the Internet to which the computer is connected. There are several services that allow you to do this, and we will consider their work in this issue.

You can watch a video on how to check Internet speed on a computer. Or study the article below.

How to check Internet speed using Yandex service?

Yandex has many different web tools aimed at both developers and ordinary users.

One of the services that Yandex offers to use for free is "Internetometer"... It allows you to determine not only the speed of the Internet for incoming and outgoing connections, but also some other network parameters.

Using Yandex's Internet meter is easy and convenient:


Unlike the Yandex service, it does not provide additional technical information, and its main task is to quickly check the speed of the Internet connection.

Note: SpeedtestIs not only a website on the Internet, but also an application for mobile devices. If you need to measure the speed of the Internet quite often, it makes sense to download the program to your smartphone or tablet.

To measure the speed of the Internet through the Speedtest service, you need to click on the button on the site page "To begin"... You will also find a link to this service in the description of this video.

Unlike the Yandex service, Speedtest, in the process of measuring data on the Internet speed, demonstrates beautiful graphics, reminiscent of the operation of a speedometer.

After measuring the network speed, the user will find out not only the number of Mbps for uploading and downloading data, but also ping data when connecting to servers in the region, which can be selected before starting the test.

Hello!

I think that not everyone and not always are satisfied with the speed of their Internet. Yes, when files are loaded quickly, online videos are loaded without "jerks" and delays, pages open very quickly - there is nothing to worry about. But in case of problems - the first thing that is recommended to be done is to check the Internet speed. It is possible that you simply do not have a high-speed connection to access the service.

How to check Internet speed on a Windows computer

Moreover, it is important to note that despite the fact that many providers write rather high numbers when connecting: 100 Mbit / s, 50 Mbit / s - in fact, the real speed will be lower (almost always the contract specifies the preposition Up to 50 Mbit / s, therefore you will not undermine them). Here are the ways in which you can check this, and we will talk further.

Built-in tools

Do it quickly enough. I'll show it using the example of Windows 7 (in Windows 8, 10, this is done in the same way).

Note! Whatever number Windows displays, the real figure may differ by an order of magnitude! Shows, for example, 72.2 Mbps, but the real speed does not rise above 4 Mb / s when downloading in various downloader programs.

Online services

To determine exactly what the speed of your Internet connection really is, it is better to use special sites that can perform such a test (about them later in the article).

Speedtest.net

One of the most popular tests.

As for speedtest.net, it is a very popular service for measuring Internet connection speed (according to many independent ratings). It's easy to use. First you need to follow the link above, and then click on the "Begin Test" button.

Next, in about a minute, this online service will provide you with verification data. For example, in my case, the value was about 40 Mbps (not bad, close to the real tariff figures). True, the ping figure is somewhat confusing (2 ms is a very low ping, almost like in a local network).

Note! Ping is a very important characteristic of an Internet connection. If you have a high ping, you can forget about online games, as everything will slow down and you simply will not have time to press the buttons. Ping depends on many parameters: the remoteness of the server (the PC to which your computer sends packets), the load on your Internet channel, etc. If you are interested in the topic of ping, I recommend that you read this article:

SPEED.IO

A very interesting service for testing connectivity. How does he win over? Probably a few things: simplicity of checking (just one button press), in real numbers, the process is in real time and you can clearly see how the speedometer shows the speed of downloading and uploading a file.

The results are more modest than in the previous service. Here it is also important to take into account the finding of the server itself with which the connection is made for verification. Since in the previous service the server was Russian, but in this one it is not. However, this is also quite interesting information.


Speedmeter.de

For many people, especially in our country, everything German is associated with precision, quality, and reliability. Actually, their service speedmeter.de confirms this. For testing it is enough to follow the link above and press one button "Speed \u200b\u200btest starten".

Voiptest.org

Not a bad service in which it is easy and simple to select a server to test, and then start testing. This is how he bribes many users.

By the way, a great way to check your internet speed is, in my opinion, various popular torrents. Take a file from the top of any tracker (which is distributed by several hundred people) and download it. True, the uTorrent program (and others like it) show the download speed in MB / s (instead of MB / s, which all providers indicate when connecting) - but this is not scary. If you do not go into theory, then the download speed of the file is sufficient, for example 3 MB / s * multiplied by ~ 8. As a result, we get about ~ 24 Mbps. This is the real meaning.

* - it is important to wait until the program reaches the maximum indicator. Usually in 1-2 minutes when downloading a file from the top rating of a popular tracker.

That's all, good luck everyone!

 

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