How to check internet speed
When we rent an Internet service in we are informed of various data such as the connection speed , both upstream and downstream, as well as other features of our new connexion to the network of networks. But many times we wonder if we get the promised connection speed by the company; Therefore, we show you below how to measure the speed of your Internet connection , both on your desktop or laptop computer and on your mobile device .
How to know the internet speed
Before you start checking the speed of your internet connection, there are several things you need to consider. The first thing is you must close any program P2P or de download from data on your computer, as well as shutdown all file upload or download activity to avoid bandwidth consumption and to keep the verification data as real as possible. So much so that we recommend that you restart the computer and perform the test so that no program interferes.
How to speed test your internet connection
While browsing the Internet, we can find many specialized pages as measured by the speed of your Internet connection, such as:
Among others, in addition to official websites Internet operators who also offer the same personalized service to their customers, such as:
For our guide, we will base on the page SpeedTest , one of the most popular pages; Also, all of them work the same, so if we learn how to test with this page, we can do it with the others without a problem. Of course, being free web pages, they all display more or less advertising , so finding each icon can be more or less tedious depending on the advertising displayed as banners on each page.
In each of them, the main icon of start-up usually appears , which will be used to start the speed test of your Internet connection. As a general rule, the test will start by measuring the PING , the response value of your connection. Later it will start the upload and download process to measure the two times. At the end, the results obtained by the test will be displayed and you can now buy them with the official data provided by your operator and see if they are really compliant to what was promised.
To perform the speed test of your Internet connection from your mobile, you can use specific applications to iOS et Android via the App Store et Google Play , respectively, which are all free. Here are the most popular for both operating systems:
iOS
Android
If you prefer, you can also use the same method as on a PC i.e. accessing one of the previous web pages through your mobile device's internet browser to perform the same internet speed test.
