{"id":26,"date":"2012-01-17T21:18:01","date_gmt":"2012-01-17T21:18:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/?p=26"},"modified":"2014-03-05T15:38:54","modified_gmt":"2014-03-05T15:38:54","slug":"how-to-test-the-speed-of-your-internet-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/computers-it\/how-to-test-the-speed-of-your-internet-connection\/","title":{"rendered":"How to test the speed of your internet connection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: First head onto <a title=\"Speedtest.net\" href=\"http:\/\/www.speedtest.net\" target=\"_blank\">www.speedtest.net<\/a><\/p>\n<p>You should be greeted with a screen with a Begin button on it like this<a href=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224018.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-27\" title=\"2012-01-17_224018\" src=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224018-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224018-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224018-500x288.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224018.jpg 674w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 2: Click on the Begin Test button<\/p>\n<p>Your screen should turn to this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224030.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-28\" title=\"2012-01-17_224030\" src=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224030-300x175.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"175\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224030-300x175.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224030-500x292.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224030.jpg 661w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>and then this<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224050.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-29\" title=\"2012-01-17_224050\" src=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224050-300x178.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"178\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224050-300x178.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224050-500x298.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224050.jpg 634w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Step 4: After the whole process completes the web application would have tested your download and upload speeds and given you a screen similar to the one below.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224112.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-30\" title=\"2012-01-17_224112\" src=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224112-300x164.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"164\" srcset=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224112-300x164.jpg 300w, https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224112-500x274.jpg 500w, https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/01\/2012-01-17_224112.jpg 708w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p><strong>How do you interpret the results?<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Speedtest.net provides you with 3 fields of information:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Ping &#8211;\u00a0This measurement tells how long it takes a &#8220;packet&#8221; (one store of transportable data) to travel from your computer to a server (another computer on the Internet) and back.<\/li>\n<li>Download Speed &#8211;\u00a0is how fast data is retrieved by your computer.<\/li>\n<li>Upload Speed &#8211;\u00a0\u00a0is how fast data is sent from your computer.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><strong>The Technical:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Ping is given in\u00a0<em>milliseconds.\u00a0<\/em>Download and uploaded speed are provided in Mbps (Mega bits per second) NOT MBps (Mega bytes per second) &#8211; there is a big difference. Remember small b represents bits and Uppercase B represents bytes.<\/p>\n<p><em>[For those that would like to skip this explanation, I have provided a link to a bandwidth calculator below, which will do the conversion for you]<\/em><\/p>\n<p>1 bit is the smallest store of data on a computer and can only store a &#8216;1&#8217; or &#8216;0&#8217;. You need 8 bits to give you enough space to store a byte of data. Therefore to convert bit speed into byte speed we need to divide the Mbps rate given by 8. In our example:<\/p>\n<p>5.01 Mbps = 5.01 * 1,000,000 bps (bits per second)<\/p>\n<p>5010000 bps (bits per second) \/ 8 = 626250 bytes per second<\/p>\n<p>To convert bytes into Kilobytes we divide 626250 \/ 1000 = 626.25 KBps (Kilobytes per second)<\/p>\n<p>To convert Kilobytes into Megabytes we divide 626.25 \/ 1000 again = 0.63 MBps (Mega Bytes per second) approx.<\/p>\n<p>For more information on data rate units you can visit the wikipedia page <a title=\"Data units Wiki page\" href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Data_rate_units\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>If you would like to rather use a bandwidth calculator to do the work for you, you can find one <a title=\"Bandwidth conversion calculator\" href=\"http:\/\/web.forret.com\/tools\/bandwidth.asp\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Any ideas\/ comments \/ suggestions or corrections, please advise in the comments below or email me.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Step 1: First head onto www.speedtest.net You should be greeted with a screen with a Begin button on it like this Step 2: Click on the Begin Test button Your screen should turn to this and then this Step 4: After the whole process completes the web application would have tested your download and upload &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/computers-it\/how-to-test-the-speed-of-your-internet-connection\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">How to test the speed of your internet connection?<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-26","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computers-it"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=26"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":32,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/26\/revisions\/32"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=26"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=26"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zaffy.co.za\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=26"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}