Global speed measurement. Services for testing real internet speed, which one is better

The concept of "Internet speed on a computer" means both the incoming speed, that is, the speed of downloading information from the World Wide Web, and outgoing - the speed of sending information. Most often, these two indicators are not the same, and the second is always lower.

Before you start checking the speed of the Internet connection, it is advisable to take several steps so that the test results fully reflect the speed indicators:

• It is necessary to close all running programs (especially those that download information), except for the active tab with the loaded page of the check service.
• Be sure to wait until the process of downloading files on the computer (if any) is completed or stop all downloads on the device before completing the speed test.
• Suspend updates of any programs, including Windows, while testing the Internet speed.
• Optional item. To eliminate the influence of Windows Firewall on the test results, you can turn it off during the Internet speed test.

Note the fact that most often the indicator of the speed of the Internet connection during the check turns out to be slightly lower than the one declared by the Internet provider. This is a completely normal situation and is due to a number of reasons:

1. Problematic user equipment. Incorrectly configured or using an outdated model, an old network card - all this objectively affects the Internet speed.
2. Problematic software. It is about harmful software installed on your computer. And such "pests" include panels such as Yandex Bar, Mail.ru search, etc. Sometimes, in order to prevent the Internet "slowing down", you just need to remove unnecessary software from your computer.
3. Excessive network congestion. This is especially true for those providers that provide Internet access via a 3G network. Why is this bad? - you ask. And the fact that with an increase in the number of users connected to the provider line, the likelihood of a decrease in Internet speed increases.
4. Traffic limitation - the provider may deliberately carry out this action, for example, in relation to file-sharing networks. The reason for such actions is the overload on the provider network.
5. Server problems. The speed of downloading files, watching movies online and uploading information on a social network is influenced not only by the speed of the Internet connection, but also by the speed of the server from which the information is "drawn".

Basic services for checking the speed of the Internet connection

There are several ways to determine the speed of the Internet, we will consider the most popular of them.

• is one of the most frequently used services for checking the incoming and outgoing internet speed. You just need to enter the site and click Begin test in the window that opens. After that, you just have to watch how the service checks.

Advice. Consider the fact that companies that provide Internet access according to a paid tariff indicate a donload speed indicator.

• Website 2ip.ru... Presented here a large number of services that are in one way or another related to the Internet, including checking the speed of the Internet. All you need to do is to find the "Tests" tab on the website and select the "Internet Connection Speed" section. Do not forget to indicate the unit of measurement. By default, this is Kbps, but for perception, the Mb / sec indicator will be more convenient. This is the unit of measure used by Internet service providers. So, we press the button "Test" and expect the result.
• Yandex Internetometer... A useful service from Yandex, with which you can easily and easily determine the speed of the Internet on your computer. To do this, follow the next link. Almost in the center of the page we see the yellow "Measure" button. We press on it and after a couple of seconds - a detailed analysis of the speed in front of your eyes. By the way, thanks to this service, you can also find out the ip-address of your computer.

• Usage torrent- another way to find out the internet speed. Although this service is designed to download files from the network, it will most accurately and most importantly, in practice, show the maximum possible on this moment Internet speed. True, this will take a little more time than in the first two cases. So, in order to check, on the torrent track, you need to find some file with the number of uploaders more than 1000 and not big amount downloading (leechers). We put the found file on download and wait. After about 30-60 seconds, the speed will reach the maximum possible limit. Take into account the fact that in the torrent client the speed is displayed in Mb / s, so you will get the Internet speed in Mb / s by multiplying the calculated indicator by 8.

We have introduced you to some of the most popular and effective ways determining the speed of the Internet on your computer is completely free. All that remains for you is to try them and choose the most convenient one for yourself.

How to find out the speed of the Internet: video

Choosing a provider and connecting to the Internet, each subscriber wants to get quick access to the World Wide Web. But what if the speed of the Internet, in your opinion, does not correspond to the one prescribed in the tariff plan and you suspect that the line is damaged, or even worse, the provider does not provide you with services in the specified volume? In this case, you should check the quality of the connection and, if it turns out to be low, take appropriate measures.

Internet connection quality

The quality or speed of the Internet connection is one of the important characteristics, which you should pay attention to when choosing a tariff plan. It depends on it how quickly pages and files from the Internet will load, whether you can run your favorite online game or not.

In fact, this is the time during which information is exchanged between your computer and other servers of the worldwide network. Measured given value in megabits per second, less often you can find the values ​​specified in kilobits.

Unfortunately, the figures indicated in the contract do not always coincide with the real ones, therefore, special tests should be carried out periodically, and if the obtained values ​​differ significantly from the indicated ones, contact your Internet provider.

Testing mechanism

The analysis for all services follows the same principle. You go to a website and request a speed test. Your computer automatically sends a package of documents to the server using the line of your provider. After receiving the files, the program directs them back to the computer. At the same time, the volume of the packet and the time spent on its receipt and transmission are recorded.

Based on the received data, the following information is displayed:

1. Ping - the time it takes to send data to computer network from client to server and vice versa. Usually measured in milliseconds.
2. The transfer rate of the information at which your computer transmits data. It is measured in megabits per second, less often in kilobytes.
3. The receive rate at which your computer is receiving data. Also measured in megabits per second.

How to find out the internet speed?

You can check the speed of the Internet from Rostelecom using various services. For testing, you should select a site that you trust, and also disable all programs for downloading files, instant messaging clients such as Skype, ICQ and others, since their work significantly affects the results of the analysis. In addition, it is recommended to check several times during the day, or even several times, in order to draw correct conclusions regarding the speed of the Internet.

With Speedtest

One of the most accurate is the speed test from the Speedtest service. Verification is fairly easy. To do this, you should:

Upon completion of the test, you will find out the speed of receiving and transmitting data in megabits per second, as well as ping.

With the help of the official service Rostelecom

Rostelecom also offers its clients to make free check internet connection speed. However, experts believe that its results are less reliable than those obtained when testing with Speedtest.

To measure, you should follow these steps:

• ping, measured in milliseconds;
• incoming and outgoing speed in megabits per second.

Other Testing Methods

If the test results do not suit you, you can also find out the quality of the Internet connection using other equally well-known services, such as:

• speed-tester.info;
• 2ip.ru/speed;
• pr-cy.ru/speed_test_internet;

Their principle of operation is the same as described above. The only difference is that the first two are designed directly for analyzing the Internet connection, the rest provide a number of other features, such as checking IP, site traffic, pages, etc. Therefore, the data obtained with their help are considered less reliable.

Poor connection reasons

The test results showed low speed, but what is the reason? There are several options:

1. Your computer is infected with a virus that uses the Internet to transmit and receive information.
2. If you have a wi-fi router, then neighbors may have connected to you.
3. Your modem is broken or has lost settings.
4. Cable problems in the house or apartment (pinched or broken cable, damaged clamps, etc.).
5. Line problems.
6. Provider's server load.

What to do?

If the test results are bad, that is, significantly lower than the values ​​specified in the contract, then you should definitely take the following steps:

1. Check your computer thoroughly with antivirus software... It is advisable to update it before that.
2. Change the password from the wi-fi router.
3. Just in case, try to connect another modem (if any) and check the integrity of the cable in the apartment.
4. If all of the above actions do not work, you should contact the technical support of Rostelecom and leave a request to check the equipment and line.

To do this, dial the number 8-800-300-18-00 and tell the operator about the problems you have encountered. He must register your application, which will be reviewed within three days. At the same time, the company's specialists will not only check your line, but also the equipment, and then provide you with information about the problems found.

In most cases, contacting technical support should solve your Internet connection problems. In case you did not see a positive result, you should change tariff plan by choosing the one where the speed is lower. This way you will not overpay for the Internet.

When buying 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 rarely matches the figures 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, and not the actual connection speed. However, if the latter is constantly and much lower than the former, the quality of the service can be questioned.

To control the work of the provider and just be aware real speed The Internet, you need to know how to define it. Fortunately, for this there is a large number of special software and free web services, which we will get acquainted with today. But let's start with what capabilities the operating room has in this regard. Windows system... We will also find out how to get the most reliable result.

Windows built-in capabilities

The easiest and fastest way to look at the current speed of the Internet connection is in the Task Manager on the "Performance" tab. If the network is poorly loaded, the graph in the "Bandwidth" window will be low; if it is strong, the window will be almost completely filled with it, and the speed shown in the upper right corner will approach that indicated in the contract with the provider. This should be normal. If, with a strong network load, the speed remains low, then there is an obstacle somewhere. Only where - at your place or at his place?

To find out the maximum achievable (in theory) Internet speed for a specific type of connection, open the folder " Network connections"And select the" Status "section in the context menu of your network.

The required information is contained in the General tab.

The real speed is usually 2-3 times lower than the maximum. By the way, when transferring data via Wi-Fi and via cable, it can differ significantly.

Let's say you have established 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 your ISP.

How to check your Internet speed manually

To get the most reliable result, you need to check the Internet speed on the 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 MAC address of the router, disconnect all other devices from the Internet for the duration of the test.

• Prepare a 1 GB file and select any cloud web service to which you will upload it, for example, Yandex Drive or Google Drive. It is important that the service does not limit the speed of uploading and downloading content.
• Close all programs that use the network and the Internet in order to unload the channel as much as possible.
• Disable VPN clients and proxy servers if they are not required to establish WAN access.
• Time yourself and start uploading the file to the cloud server. Note the download end time.
• Download the file back to your PC under time control.

Knowing the file size in megabytes and the number of seconds it took to transfer it, you can easily calculate the Internet speed in Mbps. If it is close to that specified in the contract, then the provider will fulfill its obligations to you, and the reason for the slowdown is in your devices. If not, then the opposite is true.

For those of you who don't want to do computing, you can check your Internet speeds using the methods discussed below. For reliability, we advise you to perform the check several times within an hour.

Web services

Checking the Internet speed using the 2ip service is as easy as shelling pears: press the "Test" button and wait 1-2 minutes.

In addition to ping rates, as well as incoming and outgoing speeds, 2ip allows you to find out:

• Average speed indicators of the Internet in your city.
• Average speed indicators among subscribers of your provider.
• The best tests for all providers for the current day.
• The total number of measurements among all providers.

Such 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, Iota, Dom.ru, Citylink and TTK, never became 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 on the site about it.

- another simple free service similar appointment. To start the check, just click the "Start" button. The result will be displayed on the screen in a couple of minutes.

By the way, if you sign up for Speedtest (it's also free), you can save the test results in your account and share links to them with other users.

In addition to the web service available online through a browser from any device, SpeedTest exists as an application for stationary (Windows, Mac OS X) and mobile (iOS, Android, Windows Mobile, Amazon) platforms.

Yandex.Internetometer

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 check. It's a pity that benchmarks and the ability to save test results are not provided here.

Press the "Measure" button to start the test. The result, like that of competitors, appears on the screen in 1-2 minutes.

It is very reminiscent of the set of functions of the service of the same name in the “ru” domain and differs from it only in the style of design. In addition to the Internet speed testing button, this resource contains the rating of Ukrainian providers and the indicators of the last 20 checks.

For users with Russian IP, the site 2ip.ua 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

Banki.ru uses 2 tests provided by telecommunications company Wellink. One of them is the traditional check of the response time (ping), incoming and outgoing Internet speeds, the second is checking the quality of watching video online. Based on the testing results, the service displays brief description your connection: how quickly will it open new series film, 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 the others.

Free software for testing Internet speed on PC and mobile devices

If you use the above services several times in a row, you will notice that the Internet bandwidth indicators will always be different. This is normal, but not entirely informative, especially when communication is intermittent. Applications, unlike web services, allow you to monitor network traffic continuously. And this is their main advantage.

NetTraffic for Windows

The utility, released in the installation and portable versions, is a small window constantly hanging 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 user-specified time intervals. Can monitor multiple network interfaces at the same time.

TMeter for Windows

- a more advanced tool for monitoring Internet traffic than the previous utility, but also very simple to understand and use. In addition to speed parameters, it collects statistics about the IP addresses of the visited resources, ports, protocols, etc.

Tmeter has a built-in firewall and traffic distributor (traffic shaper) between devices local network... These functions become available if the program is running on a computer that is used as a gateway for other devices to connect to the Internet.

The utility is designed to monitor the entire flow of information passing through network adapter, including the data transfer rate. Initially, it is in English, but a crack 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 a table in the main and only window of the utility.

Internet speed test for Android

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 for sending packets, allows you to select a test server (its availability and remoteness affect the performance), accumulates statistics and publishes the results of checks on social networks.

Another convenient application is that it supports even very old versions of Android.

Meteor - speed test for 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 clients social networks, browsers, Gmail, YouTube, Skype, WhatsApp, Wase navigator, google maps Maps, service taxi Uber etc. There are 16 different applications in total.

Other advantages of "Meteor" are that it supports all types of network connections including 4G and contains no ads.

ISPs are showing off maximum speeds data transfer, but what is the real situation? The speed depends on many factors: the time and day of the week, the load of the communication channel, the technical condition of the servers, the condition of the communication lines, and even the weather. When buying a certain package of services, you want to be sure that the money is not paid in vain, and the Internet speed corresponds to the declared one.

We will check using special services online, because it is the most convenient, affordable and exact way determining the speed of the Internet. Speed ​​is measured from the computer to the server running the service. Accordingly, the indicators from different services will differ.

Measured:

• incoming speed, i.e. the one with which we download from the Internet
• outgoing - the speed of sending information, i.e. when data is transmitted from our computer, for example, when you send an email or file, or when a torrent is opened.

As a rule, these two indicators differ, for me - up to three times, depending on what to test. The outbound speed is usually slower because it is used less frequently.

The baud rate is measured in kilo- or mega-BITS. One byte contains 8 bits plus an overhead pair of bits. This means that with a result of 80 Mbit / s, the actual speed is 8 MB per second. Each speed test consumes about 10-30 megabytes of traffic!

Ookla SpeedTest

The best service for today, sharpened for testing the bandwidth of the Internet connection. Precisely determines the maximum possible speed for your computer at the moment.

To start the test, press the big button "START". The service will determine the optimal server and start transmitting data. During testing, the current speed is displayed. It usually grows as the process progresses.

Pay attention to what indicators are determined:

Very exemplary good values for wired internet:

• "Download" - incoming speed: 30-70 Mbps
• "Download" - upstream speed: 10-30 Mbps
• "PING": 3-30 ms

For mobile 3G / 4G internet:

• incoming: 5-10 Mbps
• outgoing: 1-2 Mbps
• PING: 15-50 ms

PING is an important indicator, it is the time it takes to establish a connection. The closer the server is, the less value and so much the better.

SpeedTest has servers all over The globe so your location and closest server is determined first, then 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 real speed on the Internet is still lower.

The speedtest has applications for smartphones:

After testing, a permanent link to the results and a picture is provided, which you can brag about in social networks

By checking 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 the server. Therefore, I recommend that you run the test several times and calculate 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 a 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 is time to change it).

SpeedTest app for Windows 10

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 a breakneck speed and suddenly the download is interrupted, you have to start over. After the end of the test in the application, you need to click on the results:

To determine the quality of communication, the following indicators are used:

• Ripple (jitter) - phase ripple, the less the better. Up to 5 ms.
• Packet loss - how many percent of the data was lost and had to be re-sent. Should be 0%

Internet meter from Yandex company

Unlike Speedtest, Yandex's service measures the speed of data transfer between your laptop and its servers, only its own. It turns out that here the speed should turn out to be lower than in the speed test, but it is closer to reality for working in RuNet.

We press 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 interruptions in communication, then the test may freeze or end with an error.

Yandex tests in the following way: it downloads and uploads a test file several times, and then calculates the average value. Strong dips are cut off for better accuracy. However, after every re-check, I got different results with an error of 10-20%, which, in principle, is quite normal, since speed - the indicator is not constant and jumps all the time. It was during the day, and then I tested it 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.

Service 2ip.ru

I have been using this wonderful service for a long time. The 2ip.ru service will also show, give full information at this address, will check any of your files for viruses, tell a lot of interesting things about any site on the Internet (IP, site engine, presence of viruses, distance to the site, its availability, 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 the average speed in your city and your provider. With each repeated test, my speed changed insignificantly - within 10%.

Another service, works in HTML5, without Flash or Java, however, like the previous services.

OpenSpeedTest will help you measure the bandwidth between Western servers. You will notice that the pings are even bigger.

Works stably, averages the values ​​obtained, fairly predictable and repeatable results.

Service does not represent special interest for testing high-speed Internet, but it may be of interest to those who use a modem or another not the most fast internet... The results show the average results for different network interfaces (modem, coaxial cable, Ethernet, Wi-Fi) and yours for comparison.

There is a percentage accuracy of measurements. It is calculated based on whether the speed was stable during the data transfer, or jumped strongly. The more stable, the higher the accuracy.

Separately, I would like to note the testing method using. To do this, we take a torrent with a large number of seeds and see the real speed of data reception.

For everyone, before testing it is desirable:

• Close all programs except the browser (especially those that can download something) and leave only one tab of the speed testing service active
• Wait until the end or stop all downloads in your browser!
• Check if any program is using the network. To do this, open the "Task Manager" using the "Ctrl + Shift + Esc" buttons, go to the "Performance" tab and click on the network adapter. If there are several of them, then there will be only one with the data:

See how much data was sent and transferred for last minute... If no program uses the network, then there should be units-tens, maximum one hundred kbps. Otherwise, reboot and check again.

Summing up

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 is due to downloading from various sources scattered all over the world at the same time (this is how torrents work). And 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 the low speed may be due to, or due to a weak Wi-Fi adapter. In the comments, please write your results and do not forget to upload the article to social networks.

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