The Best Tool to Test the Speed of Your Internet
If you are worried about your internet speed and want to test the speed of your internet, then this tutorial will help you that how you can test the internet speed with the help of speedtest.org.
I try to experiment with different tools to test the speed of the internet, and I found speedtest.org, a valuable tool in this regard. Let’s start with speedtest.
How to test?
Step 1: Open speedtest.org
Step 2: Just click the start button
Step 3: Just wait to load the full interface
What kind of information is tested?
Some important metrics are mentioned below;
- Latency (Latency is considered as a measure of delay. In a network, latency is a measure of the time it takes for the given data to get to its destination device across the network.)
- Download speed
- Stability(stability is considered one of the most important factors of internet speed to test the reliability of internet connection)
- Upload speed
- IP-Address
- Internet Provider (The company providing you the facility of internet. For example in my case, I am using “Nayatel internet connection”.)
- Security
- Latency Average
- Download Speed
- Upload Speed Average
- Longitude (Based on IP Address)
Visualization of speed test results
Latency: 178.6 ms
Download speed: 10.5 Mbps
Stability: 82%
Transferred Data: 22.94 MB
Upload speed: 5.3 Mbps
Stability: -196%
Transferred Data: 4.75 MB
IP-Address: 115.186.169.96, IPv6
Internet Provider: Nayatel (Pvt) Ltd
Security: Connection unprotected (Install VPN)
The best thing is that if you check the speed many times, then this online tool will show the
Visualization of speed test statistics
average speed matrix. For example, if you test the speed of your internet two times, then this tool will calculate the average. Some examples of average calculations are given below;
Latency Average: 180 ms
Download Speed: Average 10.45 Mbps
Upload Speed Average: 5.24 Mbps
Visualization of Location
speedcheck.org also tells us the location of our internet service provider. The main information visible is mentioned below;
Latitude(Based on IP Address): 33.6979
Longitude (Based on IP Address): 73.0151
Some General information about Speed
BITS VS BYTES
BITS | BYTES |
measure speed of a connection
Kilobit (kb)—1,024 bits Megabit (Mb) —1,024 kilobits Gigabit (Gb) —1,024 megabits Terabit (Tb) —1,024 gigabits |
measure the size of a data file
Kilobyte (KB) —1,024 bytes Megabyte (MB) —1,024 kilobytes Gigabyte (GB) —1,024 megabytes Terabyte (TB) —1,024 gigabytes |
Wired bandwidth standards for connections
VDSL | 55 Mbps |
Fast Ethernet | 100 Mbps |
Gigabit Ethernet | 1000 Mbps or 1 Gbps |
VSDL 2 Vplus | 300 Mbps |
100 Gigabit Ethernet | 100 Gbps |
Dialup Modem | 56 kbps |
T1 (Digital leased landline connection) | 1.544 Mbps |
OC3 (Ficer optic leased landline connection) | 155 Mbps |
10 Gigabit Ethernet | 10 Gbps |
VDSL 2 | 100 Mbps |
Ethernet | 10 Mbps |
OC 12 (Ficer optic leased landline connection) | 622 Mbps |
T3 (Digital leased landline connection) | 44.763 Mbps |
E1 (Digital leased landline connection European) | 2.048 Mbps |
Asynchronous DSL | 4 Mbps |