Many computer users often experience low Internet speeds. If you have connected high-speed Internet, and it repeatedly or constantly freezes, then the first reason for this may be the provider. Internet speed can also be affected by viruses, browser, and computer problems.
Many computer users often experience low Internet speeds. If you have connected high-speed Internet, and it repeatedly or constantly freezes, then the first reason for this may be the provider. Internet speed can also be affected by viruses, browser, and computer problems.
Before deciding what to do to increase Internet speed, you first need to find out its current speed. In this article we will tell you how to check the Internet speed on a computer with Windows 7, and with other operating systems, so that later you can fully express a claim against the provider.
Checking Internet speed via Speedtest.net
The most convenient and more accurate site for checking Internet speed is considered speedtest.net
But before you start checking, find out the Internet speed declared by your provider; most often they indicate a speed of “up to”, for example up to 100 Mb/seconds. It’s worth saying right away that this is a lie; you rarely find an Internet that can reach a speed of 100 MG/second (although Rostelecom provides even more than the speed stated under the contract.
In this case, the declared speed is 50Mb, and as you can see in the screenshot, the receiving speed is really higher), but our task will be to check whether there is at least 2-3 Mb/sec, which will be enough to play music or video more or less quickly.
- 1 . We go to the website using the link speedtest.net.
- 2 . Click on the “Start Test” button or, if you have an English version of the site, “Begin Test”.
- 3 . After pressing the button, the Internet speed check will begin. You don't need to do anything, the program will perform the check itself. It is advisable to disable all processes that load the Internet, as they can affect the final results. The verification process will take from a few seconds to a minute.
- 4 . Ultimately, you will see the ping (Ping), (a little about Ping itself. Ping (from the English ping) is the reaction time of an Internet connection: namely, how quickly the client computer, having sent a request, receives a response from the server. Ping is measured in milliseconds (ms, ms), and naturally, the lower the Ping, the better . The ideal value is up to 40 ms, higher is already a bad Ping, which leads to “Hanging” of network applications). Download Speed and Upload Speed. The main thing is to find out the receiving speed; if it is 5 Mb/second, then this speed should be enough. Our task is to compare the actual Internet speed with that declared by the provider. If they do not match even closely, then you need to urgently contact your provider or change it to another one.
Checking Internet speed via 2ip.ru
If you want to fully verify the speed of your Internet, you can use another site 2ip. But be aware, both sites presented may be slightly off, so take an average after checking your speed.
- 1 . Visit the site using the link.
- 2 . On the left side of the screen, click on the “Internet connection speed” button in the “Tests” field.
- 3 . On the page that opens, check whether your location and Internet provider are indicated correctly. If all the data matches, click on the blue “Test” button.
- 4 . Wait a few seconds while the program calculates your Internet speed.
- 5
. After checking, a page will open containing your IP, provider, site, ping and time. Just below the green numbers indicate your Internet speed.
As already mentioned, both services check in their own way and at different times. If Speedtest was 2 MG/sec, and 2ip was 1 MG/sec, then the average test speed will be 1.5 MG.
Yandex. Internet meter - checking internet speed
Ours has many good and useful services, including checking Internet speed. Follow this link - yandex.ru/internet, and press the “Measure” button
Now you know how to check the Internet speed on your computer. If you want to always know the current Internet speed, you can download a special program to your computer. But such programs have a disadvantage - they slow down the computer and Internet connection a little. Therefore, it’s up to you to decide whether such a program is needed on your computer or not!
Learn how to correctly measure the speed of your Internet connection. What resources can you use to correctly check the Internet, what parameters should you look at, and how to determine whether the result in front of you is good.
I’ll definitely tell you about Megabit and Megabyte, they are often confused, and I’ll also tell you what ping is and why people often get kicked out of online games because of it. 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 my 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 now you have repeated all this on your computer, you have seen numbers, large or small, with different units of measurement.
You sit, look at them, sometimes even rejoice, but what do these data mean? It was displayed to you, for example: Input - 10 Mbit/s, Output - 5 Mbit/s, Ping - 14 and what next, is this good for you, or if you honestly look at it, then you will say that these numbers have nothing to do with you do not speak? And in most cases, everything is exactly like this, we see the result, but we cannot analyze it, because we do not know what each direction means.
Funny conversation with a friend
In general, I decided to write an article on this topic just yesterday. I was talking 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, the acquaintance replied, well, what bullshit is your Internet, I have 30 Mbit/s for only 250 rubles. This whole thing was said with such a smart look, I couldn’t restrain myself, I laughed, when I walked away, I immediately thought - this is the topic for a new article.
Users who understand have already figured out what the catch is, and for those who didn’t catch it, read the article carefully and absorb useful knowledge. For probably another 15 minutes I had to explain to my friend that he had made a little mistake in choosing the Internet and the money he paid could be spent more wisely if armed with good Internet. I won’t mutter too much, let’s move on.
How is Internet speed measured?
In order to understand and correctly analyze the speed of Internet connections, you need to have a good understanding of the units of measurement that you will actually use to measure your Internet in the future.
This is very important, it’s a must, well, it’s absolutely necessary, it’s necessary, there’s simply no other way. After all, when you come to the store, you tell the seller how many kilograms of apples to sell you, or you yourself calculate how many kilograms of potatoes you need to buy so that there is enough for at least a week for the whole family, you even tritely calculate how many grams of candy to buy so that you have enough money to pay. Now let's get down to business.
When you start wondering about the Internet, you come across two units of measurement - Megabits and Megabytes. Let's go in order.
The MEGA prefix is a million-dollar prefix, you don’t need to pay special attention to them, it’s just an abbreviation, a replacement of the number 10 to the 6th power. Once again, we don’t look at the console, we follow everything that is written next, namely, we look at the BITS and BYTES. (megaBIT, mega BYTE)
A bit is the smallest unit of measurement used in calculations 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, a BYTE is 8 bits.
Examples. When testing Internet speed, you may be shown:
30 Mbit/s or 3.75 MB/s, where you should understand that these are two identical numbers. That is, when you took measurements and were shown the result in megabits, you can safely divide it by 8 and get the real result. In our example, 30 Mbit/8= 3.75 MB
You haven’t forgotten about my conversation with a friend, now you can go back and see why I didn’t agree with my friend, what was his mistake? Look, count, it will be useful for consolidation.
In addition to units of measurement, for proper analysis of an Internet connection, you need to know that there are two types of connections. Incoming and outgoing.
It’s not at all difficult, but you have to read it once just to 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 play an online game and small packets of information that control actions in the game are necessarily sent from your computer, or for example you upload a photo to a social network, all this will be considered outgoing traffic.
Remember:
All we take on the Internet is incoming traffic.
Everything we send to the Internet is outgoing traffic.
Now a little advice: when analyzing, you can not pay attention to outgoing traffic. Why? Because if the incoming Internet connection is good, the outgoing one will automatically be good. They come in a complex, but you need to remember that the speed of incoming information is always higher, sometimes even twice as high, but this is not scary.
When measuring your Internet speed, you will see pictures like this and this is normal:
I think the numbers are more or less understood and now you can easily analyze the speed of your Internet connection as accurately as possible. Although it’s 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 don’t understand, then write in the comments to this article, as soon as I see it, I’ll immediately write the answer.
| Task | Internet connection speed | Classification |
|---|---|---|
| Viewing text and graphic information | 10 Mbit/s or 1 MB/s | Slow Internet |
| Watch online movies, listen to music, play, chat on Skype | From 20 Mbit/s to 40 Mbit/s | Good, multitasking. |
| Working on the Internet, downloading large amounts of information, high-quality videos and other high loads | From 80 Mbit/s and above | Universal for all occasions |
I often hear the question, but with the Internet like this, how long will it take me to download a movie? To be honest, such questions irritate me a little, if you know how to count, then why not do it, this is forgivable for adults and elderly people of the previous generation, but now young people should be educated and instantly give out the information of interest, so in the article I won’t even write about this, but just in case, I will show the principle of calculation in the video, so after finishing reading the text, do not be lazy to spend a couple of minutes watching the video.
And besides this, you should always remember that a virus can get onto your computer and the speed will be reduced several times,
Where can you test your Internet speed?
As I said at the beginning, there are a lot of different resources that provide the opportunity, so to speak, to weigh and measure your Internet. But as practice shows, only a few of them work stably and can provide correct information and not fantasize...
yandex.ru/internet- for me this is the best resource for measuring the Internet.
speedtest.net/ru/ is a mega popular site for determining speed, but it works fine for me only after the second scan. After the first time it shows unreal 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 Internet measurements, but it gives some useful information, who serves it, what provider it is and where the service site is located.
By the way, I took examples of pictures 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, you may notice another interesting parameter - 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, to be honest, are a little obsessed with pings during the game.
Even 7-8 years ago I had a case when I entered the game myself, as I remember now - it was Counter-Strike. Well, I came in, I’m playing, I hear a lot of fuss, shouting and discontent, and in every sentence they shout, he has a high ping, let’s kick him out. And in fact, they kicked me out of the room by general vote; of course, I was not very happy, but there was nothing to do.
That day I spent several hours studying the cursed word ping at that time.
But in fact, the essence of its work is very simple, I will not load your heads, but 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 some action for you, the character simply makes a movement. And from the technical side, in order to even simply move your character from place, the computer must send a command (packet of files) to the server, and the time during which these files will fly to the server, be processed there and return back will be called ping.
In fact, Ping is the speed of data exchange between the computer and the server.
What does ping depend on, and how can it be lowered?
Everything here is quite simple, the first and main reason is the physical distance between your computer and the game server. For example, you play in Moscow, and the server is in China, the distance is very long and therefore it takes more time to transmit data packets. And at this moment we are swearing that the game is lagging.
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 just your apartment, but an entire house or street, and if everyone decides to surf the Internet at the same time, then there will be a little chaos.
Rational use of traffic is when you are sitting at home on the Internet via Wi-Fi, playing, and at the same time your parents are watching TV series through the same Wi-Fi, your little sister is sitting on 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 your ping:
- Change provider or tariff plan to a more powerful one
- Make some changes to the operating system registry (the improvement is not significant)
- Loading specialized software. (we immediately throw this method out of our heads and use the first two)
Have you figured out what's what? I think you all understood a long time ago, so I’ll wrap it up. Below you can find a video to reinforce the material you have read, don’t be lazy, you have to watch it.
Watch video: How to find out the Internet speed on your computer?
Well, have you finished reading? Then we go below and write our comment on this article, otherwise how will I know whether you have read it at all or not? See you soon, bye friends.
“Connection speed” refers to the amount of information downloaded per second.
The units used for this quantity are bits per second. A bit is a binary value (1 or 0).
Using single bits to measure connection speed would produce very cumbersome values.
Therefore, to denote a large number of bits, metric prefixes are used: kilo-, mega-, giga-, tera-.
That is, a speed of 1 Kbps (Kbps) means that the device receives 1000 bits of information per second. How to measure Internet speed yourself?
Modern communications technologies allow the use of the megabit as a standard unit at the user level.
The average Internet connection speed in the world in 2014 was 3.9 Mbit/sec.
Modern providers provide tariff plans up to 100 Mbit/sec. This is the maximum limit of most home ports, at least for today.
The most common connection technology is broadband cable connection. This type of connection has replaced dial-up modem connections.
The use of our own fiber optic lines, instead of the telephone network, allowed us to significantly increase traffic volumes.
So the modem connection provided no more than 56 Kbps.
Note! The standard speed for a home broadband connection is 10 Mbps. That is, for the majority of users who do not have special requirements for connection speed, this is enough. This value is enough to download files, work with cloud services and feel comfortable online.
With commercial networks, things are somewhat more complicated. Each enterprise has its own needs and, most often, an individual agreement is formed under certain conditions.
For small companies and offices, a household connection is sufficient. 
Important: Providers prefer to keep silent about the fact that the speed of outgoing traffic is an order of magnitude lower than the speed of incoming traffic. For ordinary people, this is not so critical, but if you need to send large amounts of data, then it is better to take this circumstance into account.
In any case, the connection speed stated in the tariff is somewhat lower in practice. The quality of communication at any given time depends on many factors.
The load on the provider's nodes and the quality of setup of home devices affect the connection speed.
The Wi-Fi connection is influenced by even more circumstances:
- Distance to access point;
- Physical barriers to the signal path and their material;
- Presence of radio interference;
- Quality and receiving device.
And this is in addition to the features of the wired connection. As a result, it turns out that the actual connection speed will always be slightly lower than stated in the tariff.
Measurement of actual Internet speed
He has already completed more than seven billion checks.
The service allows you not only to measure speed, but also to save test results in your profile, publish them on social networks and in public comparisons.
By the way, the average value based on the results of all checks is 22.7 Mbit/sec.
Let's move directly to the process of measuring speed.
The example involves an ADSL connection via a Wi-Fi router with one more active user. Tariff speed 5 Mbit/sec.
First you need to go to the speedtest website.
After loading it will look like this (pictured below).
The determination of the region and the most suitable server occurs automatically, but each user can independently select any one of the servers available around the world (1 choice on the world map, 2 – navigation around the site).
White dots on the map indicate available servers. 
In addition, a counter for the number of checks (4) is displayed, as well as the current IP address with the name of the provider (5). The check can begin (3) immediately after loading the interface, or after identifying the required server.
First of all, the service measures ping (1). Ping is the time it takes for a data packet to travel from the user’s PC to the server and back.
This value is measured in milliseconds.
The higher the indicator, the slower the connection, the longer sites load and the worse the games perform.
This metric reflects the amount of data received from the server per second. Here you can clearly see how the tariff speed (5 Mbit/s) differs from the actual one.
In the example, an ADSL connection was used, which is why the difference in values is so large.
In broadband wired connections it will be an order of magnitude less.
Internet speed testing is completed.
In addition, you can send the results to a public rating (2). There the results of all checks are collected and compared.
Gratitude to the creators of the resource for the services provided can be expressed not only through good karma, but also through material means (3).
The most objective results are usually obtained after several checks. D
To optimize the process, a new check button (4) is provided. It is possible to initiate a check with another server (5).
Interesting! There is a mini version of the service that can be embedded into websites. Distributed free of charge. It can be used both for personal needs and with registration in the Ookla service, then the load on the channel will increase, since measurements will be taken from all over the world using the registered server.
There is also a version for mobile platforms. Download for free on the AppStore or GogglePlay. A mobile version is available for smartphones and tablets that support Internet access.
Once you determine your connection speed, you can take some steps to improve it. Of course, if you are satisfied with the values, then there is nothing to worry about.
Possibilities for speeding up the connection will be discussed below.
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