When purchasing 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 extremely rarely corresponds to the numbers 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, not the actual connection speed. However, if the latter is constantly and much lower than the first, the quality of the service can be questioned.
To control the work of the provider and simply be aware of the real Internet speed, you need to know how to determine it. Thankfully there is a reason for this a large number of special software and free web services that 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.
The easiest and fastest way to view your current Internet connection speed is in the task manager on the “Performance” tab. If the network is lightly loaded, the graph in the “Bandwidth” window will be low; if it is strong, the window will be filled almost completely, and the speed shown in the upper right corner will be closer to what is specified in the contract with the provider. This should be normal. If, when the network is heavily loaded, the speed remains low, it means that there is an obstacle somewhere. But where is it - yours or his?
To find out the maximum achievable (in theory) Internet speed within a specific connection type, open the folder " Network connections» and select in context menu your network "Status" section.
The necessary information is contained on the “General” tab.
The actual speed is usually 2-3 times lower than the maximum. By the way, when transmitting data via Wi-Fi and cable, it can differ significantly.
Let's say you have determined that the Internet on your computer should be faster. The next task is to find out who is to blame for the slowdown - your devices or the provider.
To get the most reliable result, you need to check the Internet speed on a 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 router’s MAC address, disconnect all other devices from the Internet during the test.
Knowing the file size in megabytes and the number of seconds spent on its transfer, you can easily calculate the Internet speed in Mbps. If it is close to that specified in the contract, it means that the provider will fulfill its obligations to you, and the reason for the slowdown is in your devices. If not, then it's the other way around.
For those of you who don't want to do the math, you can test your Internet speeds using the methods discussed below. For reliability, we recommend performing the check several times within an hour.
Testing your Internet speed using the 2ip service is as easy as shelling pears: click the “Test” button and wait 1-2 minutes.
In addition to ping indicators, as well as incoming and outgoing speeds, 2ip allows you to find out:
This is 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, Yota, Dom.ru, Citylink and TTK 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 about it on the site.
- another simple free service of similar purpose. To start the scan, just click the “Start” button. The result will appear on the screen in a couple of minutes.
By the way, if you register for Speedtest (this is also free), you will be able to save the test results in your account and share links to them with other users.
In addition to the web service, accessible online through a browser from any device, SpeedTest exists as an application for desktop (Windows, Mac OS X) and mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Amazon) platforms.
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 scan. It’s just a pity that there are no benchmarks or opportunities to save test results here.
To start the test, click the “Measure” button. The result, like its competitors, appears on the screen in 1-2 minutes.
The set of functions is very similar to the service of the same name in the “ru” domain and differs from it only in the design style. In addition to the Internet speed testing button, this resource contains a rating of Ukrainian providers and indicators of the last 20 checks.
For users with Russian IPs, the 2ip.ua website 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 uses 2 tests provided by the telecommunications company Wellink. One of them is a traditional test of response time (ping), incoming and outgoing Internet speeds, the second is a test of the quality of online video viewing. Based on the testing results, the service displays brief description your connection: how quickly a new movie series 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.
Using the service on Banki.ru is no different from others.
If you use the above services several times in a row, you will notice that the indicators bandwidth The Internet will always be different. This is normal, but not entirely informative, especially when the connection is intermittent. Applications, unlike web services, allow you to monitor network traffic continuously. And this is their main advantage.
The utility, available in installation and portable versions, is a small window that constantly hangs in the corner of the screen, where the connection speed is displayed in real time.
In addition to current data, it collects traffic statistics for time periods specified by the user. Can monitor multiple network interfaces simultaneously.
is a more advanced Internet traffic monitoring tool than the previous utility, but also very easy to understand and use. In addition to speed parameters, it collects statistics about the IP addresses of visited resources, ports, protocols, etc.
Tmeter has a built-in firewall and traffic distributor (traffic shaper) between local network devices. These functions become available if the program is running on a computer that is used as a gateway to connect other devices to the Internet.
The utility is designed to monitor the entire flow of information passing through the network adapter, including the data transfer speed. Initially it is in English, but a localizer 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 table form in the main and only window of the utility.
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 of sending packets, allows you to select a test server (its availability and distance affect the performance), accumulates statistics and publishes test results on social networks.
The application is also convenient because it supports even very old versions of Android.
Meteor - speed test - one of the few mobile applications, which 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. Among such programs are social network clients, browsers, Gmail, YouTube, Skype, WhatsApp, Wase navigator, google maps Maps, Uber taxi service, etc. A total of 16 different applications.
Other advantages of Meteor are that it supports all types network connections, including 4G, and does not contain advertising.
Want to know how fast your Internet connection actually is? Measure your Internet connection speed and see how fast your download, upload, ping and jitter are.
You pay the provider for an Internet connection, which must, within the chosen tariff, meet certain technical parameters. These include not only download speed, but also transfer speed along with latency or response (ping).
In practice, however, the measured values may differ significantly from those shown on paper. Sometimes long term, sometimes only for a short period of time due to technical problem or aggregation - the sharing of the potential of an Internet connection between several users. Speedtest will help identify the differences and show you what your connection is really like. And all this within a few tens of seconds and without complex settings.
From the user's point of view, everything is simple. Directly in the web browser, click on the measurement button and wait. Before you run speedtest, it is important to turn off all tasks, applications and devices that might be using your Internet connection. This would affect the results and you would not learn anything, or the conclusions would not have the required accuracy.
The technical solutions and background of speedtest themselves are complex, but in a very simplistic way, the test simulates the situation where you are uploading and downloading data. Based on how quickly these transfers occur, measured values are calculated. You can test the speed of up to thirty test servers located in different geographical locations. What data will you find out?
The test results will provide a number of key values by which you can evaluate your connection and immediately choose, for example, a different plan or a different provider. The main values include:
Download will show you the download speed of your device in Mbit/s. The higher the value, the better, because the faster the loading time, the less time you'll have to wait while you load a web page, or an email attachment, for example. Internet connections at home are usually asymmetrical. This means that the download speed for the user is faster than the upload speed.
The specified upload speed is another main value that the test results will show. Upload again expresses in Mbps how quickly you can upload Internet data on a given connection. The higher the number, as with download, the better. Fast loading is important, for example for cloud backup or video streaming. The higher the value, the faster you can upload data from the device to the Internet.
The three main parameters end with a response (ping) in milliseconds. On the contrary, the lower, the better. Its importance is especially important for online game players who need a fast response from the server when playing so that there is no delay in the game. Anything below 40 ms can be considered a relatively fast ping, but really good result– this is all in the range of 0-10 ms.
Part of the results is jitter. It expresses the fluctuations in ping value in milliseconds, and therefore the stability of the connection. The result should be as low as possible. The higher the jitter value in the test, the less stable the Internet connection.
Speedtest results will show in detail how many MB of data you can theoretically download and upload in a certain period of time. You will easily find whether the specified data volume and thus the speed is sufficient. It's useful, isn't it? Blog and website owners have the opportunity to embed a connection speed test for free directly on the site via an embed code.
Connecting to the Internet is certainly not the case when what happened yesterday still works today. Don't forget to repeat the speedtest from time to time or use it whenever you suspect problems with your connection speed.
He will respond to you immediately and you have the opportunity to decide what your next steps will be. In any case, there is no point in wasting time with a slow Internet nowadays.
Internet providers boast about their fastest data transfer speeds, but what is the reality? The speed depends on many factors: time and day of the week, communication channel congestion, technical condition servers, the state of communication lines and even the weather. When purchasing a certain package of services, you want to be sure that the money is not being paid in vain, and that the Internet speed corresponds to the advertised speed.
We will check using special services on the Internet, because this is the most convenient, accessible and exact way determining Internet speed. Speed is measured from the computer to the server on which the service runs. Accordingly, indicators from different services will differ.
Measured:
As a rule, these two indicators differ, for me - up to three times, depending on what you test. The outgoing speed is usually lower because it is used less often.
Data transfer speed is measured in kilobits or megabits. One byte contains 8 bits plus a couple of service bits. This means that with a result of 80 Mbps, the actual speed is 8 MB per second. Each speed test consumes about 10-30 megabytes of traffic!
Today's best service, designed for testing Internet connection throughput. Accurately determines the maximum possible speed for your computer at the moment.
To start the test, click the big “START” button. The service will determine the optimal server and begin transmitting data. As testing progresses, the current speed is displayed. It usually grows as the process progresses.
Please note what indicators are determined:
Very exemplary good values for wired internet:
For mobile 3G/4G Internet:
PING important indicator, this is the time it takes to establish a connection. The closer the server, the lower the value and the better.
SpeedTest has servers all over To the globe, so first your location and the closest server are determined, then the test data is transmitted. The measured speed is the maximum 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 obtained figures can be compared with those declared by the provider, but the actual speed on the Internet is still lower.
Speedtest has applications for smartphones:
After testing, a permanent link to the results and a picture is provided that you can show off on social networks
If you check 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 server. Therefore, I recommend running the test several times and calculating 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 the 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’s time to change it).
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 breakneck speed and suddenly the download is interrupted and you have to start over. After finishing the test in the application, you need to click on the results:
To determine the quality of communication, the following indicators are used:
Unlike Speedtest, the service from Yandex measures the data transfer speed between your laptop and its servers, only its own. It turns out that the speed here should be lower than in the speed test, but it is closer to reality for working on the RUNet.
Click the “Measure” button and wait a while while Yandex tests. The time will depend on the speed itself, and if it is too low, or there are communication interruptions, the test may freeze or fail.
Yandex tests as follows: downloads and uploads a test file several times, and then calculates the average value. For better accuracy, strong dips are cut off. However, after each re-check I received different results with an error of 10-20%, which in principle is quite normal, because... Speed is not a constant indicator and fluctuates all the time. This 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.
I have been using this wonderful service for a long time. The 2ip.ru service will also show and give full information at this address, will 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 accessibility, 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 average speed in your city and to your provider. With each repeated test, my speed changed slightly - within 10%.
Another service that runs on HTML5, without Flash or Java, just like the previous services.
OpenSpeedTest will help you measure bandwidth between Western servers. You will notice that the pings have become even higher.
Works stably, averages the obtained values, 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 average results for various network interfaces (modem, coaxial cable, Ethernet, Wi-Fi) and yours for comparison.
Here the measurement accuracy is expressed as a percentage. It is calculated based on whether the speed during data transfer was stable or fluctuated greatly. The more stable, the higher the accuracy.
I will separately note the testing method using . To do this, take a torrent from big amount seeds and look at the real data reception speed.
For everyone, before testing it is advisable to:
See how much data was sent and transmitted in the last minute. If no program uses the network, then there should be a few to tens, a maximum of a hundred kbit/s. Otherwise, reboot and check again.
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 different 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 low speed may be due to, or due to a weak Wi-Fi adapter. Please write your results in the comments and don’t forget to post the article on social networks.
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Many who have already encountered Internet speed testing services have noticed that the results of these tests quite often differ from the tariff plan (the speed provided by the provider). Most people, without delving into the details and intricacies of how services work, prefer to believe the indicated speed test results, on, perhaps for the first time, an open website. And then the calls to the provider’s technical support with complaints and claims begin. Often, long negotiations with technical support end in nothing - the recommendations of the technical staff are difficult or scary to implement. And, as a result, the client is not satisfied.
We conducted a small test of the most popular Internet connection speed testing services and decided to find out which service should be given the greatest preference, and also tried to find out why such different results are shown by speed measurements. At each site we carried out from 3 to 5 measurements, presenting the best indicators here.
For testing, we used a simple system unit with a dual-core processor, 2 GB of RAM installed operating system Windows 7 is not installed on the computer, the firewall is disabled. All components and modules (including flash player) are updated. Browsers used: Opera, Chrome, Fire Fox, Safari, testing was carried out in each of them. The network card is the most inexpensive, with an interface speed of 100 Mbit/s (Full duplex). The computer was connected with a 3-meter twisted pair cable to a Cisco L2 switch with a 1 Gb/s port (auto) and an external interface (Internet channel) of 2 Gb/s (LACP bonding mode 2).
In total, an analogue of broadband Internet access was obtained at a speed limited by the bandwidth of the computer’s network card - 100 Mbit/s.
The web interface of the page http://www.speedtest.net/ looks like a map with the ability to select the server with which you want to test.
When you open the page www.speedtest.net, the service determines your location. A very useful feature of this service is the ability to select the server with which to test, because the fewer intermediate nodes between your computer and the server, the more accurate the measurement results will be.
Before testing begins, a ping test takes place - the server's response time to your request to it.
Immediately after measuring the ping, the download speed is measured - Download.
After measuring your incoming speed, the service will automatically begin measuring outgoing speed - Upload, the speed at which you can upload and transfer files to the Internet.
Outgoing speed testing - Upload.
After all the tests have been carried out - ping, incoming and outgoing speed, the results will appear on the screen with a suggestion to repeat the test ( TEST AGAIN), or select another server ( NEW SERVER) to check Internet settings.
Test result.
Further, using the service Speedtes.Net, we chose another, most remote server in Kyiv, the data to which will pass through several Data Centers, with this we will show the influence of intermediate nodes on the accuracy of testing measurements.
Selecting a remote server located in Kyiv.
Speed testing with a server located in Kyiv.
Here it is worth paying attention to the increase in ping to 13 ms, which indicates data delays on intermediate servers and routers located between us and Kiev.
Result for Speedtest.net by Ookla - 95/95 Mbit/s with our throughput of 100 Mbps this is the most accurate result.
If you need to test with our server located in Torez, go here.
The result of the check, to put it mildly, was no. With our actual channel width of 100 Mbit/s, the Bandwidthplace.com service showed only 11 Mbit/s - 10 times lower than our actual speed. Moreover, we were not able to check our outgoing speed using this service.
Bandwidthplace.com speed testing.
This is all due to the remoteness of the server and the large number of intermediate nodes connected to it. We counted 8 pieces. 
Tracing the route to the server - Bandwidthplace.com.
Result for Bandwidthplace.com - 11/-- Mbit/s with our throughput of 100 Mbit/s, this service is not suitable for our region.
Before checking, the service prompts you to enter your speed by tariff plan, for further assessment - declared/actual.
The lack of selection of the nearest server affected the results.
The result of the Internet connection speed is 2ip.Ru.
Despite the fact that the 2ip.ru service is aimed at Russian-speaking network users, it itself is located in Germany, so the service is more suitable for the western regions of the CIS countries (Kaliningrad, St. Petersburg...). Due to the fact that there are a large number of nodes between us and the 2ip.ru service, it is not suitable for accurate measurements.
Result for 2ip.Ru - 27/7 Mbit/s
The speed test page includes a map that allows you to select your preferred server with the fewest nodes on the path to it for the most accurate result.
Speed check page - Pr-Cy.Ru.
After pressing the button “Start Internet speed test”, first the server response time (ping) is measured, after which the incoming and then outgoing Internet speed will be automatically checked.
Testing Internet speed on the Pr-Cy.Ru website.
Internet speed test result.
The test result was disappointing, deviations were more than 20%. Most likely, the owners of the Pr-Cy.Ru resource do not prioritize the accuracy of Internet speed measurements and pay more attention to the accuracy of their other services.
Result for Pr-Cy.Ru - 80/20 Mbit/s, in our opinion, a dubious service for our region.
We think this is enough comparative tests. Our goal was to show that speed checking services are nothing more than entertainment and should not be taken more or less seriously. We did not specifically consider other services, such as.
