Speed Test

Why should I test my internet speed with an internet speed test?

An internet speed test measures the connection speed and quality of your connected device to the internet. It does so by running multiple consecutive tests that analyze different aspects of your internet connection, namely ping (latency), download speed, and upload speed. Each of these values represents the connection’s specific qualities, which you can read more about in the paragraph after the next. This should give you a clue on how to understand the final speed test results. But before we get to these, we first want to discuss how to perform each test.

WiFi Speed Test Online

Running a WiFi Speed Test is the right solution for most people if they encounter connectivity issues as they are usually internet speed related. The reason is simple. Most of the devices on your home network today are not connected with a wired connection anymore. They are all connected via WiFi. So to figure out if your connectivity issues are due to your ISP, your wireless connection or a local router issue running a WiFi Speed Test will give you the insights you’re looking for. Just run multiple tests, one close to your WiFi Hotspot and one in the place where you’re having issues because the signal strength diminishes. If the internet speeds are the same for the weak and strong signal, it’s likely an ISP issue. If the interet speeds differ on your connected devices, however, the poor connectivity is likely either due to a local misconfiguration or device capabilities. Maybe your device is not connecting to the correct WiFi hotspot, so it must go through a thick wall. Selectively enabling and disabling your WiFi hotspots can quickly help identify the problematic device. You can run a WiFi speed test on all your devices to idenitify the ones that have a strong WiFi signal and the ones that don’t. In addition you could check internet speed with a network speed test as well to compare wireless and wired connectivity.

Test my internet speed?

To learn more about the specific requirements of the bandwidth speed test, we’ve prepared the sections below that will explain the details of what actually happening during the speedtest.