![]() This means, that a connection with a download speed of 10 Mbps, under optimal conditions, will allow you to download 10 million bits every second. It is important to note that there is a difference between bits and bytes, and therefore a difference between Mbps (Megabits per second) and MB/s (Megabytes per second). There are 8 bits in a byte, so a 10 Mbps connection does not mean that you can download a 10 MB file in 1 second. You must divide the Mbps measurement by 8 to determine how many MB can be transferred in a second. ![]() With a 10 Mbps download speed, the transfer rate is really 1.25 MB per second (10,000,000 ÷ 8 = 1,250,000). Ping or Latency refers to the time that it takes for a device to reach out to another server and receive a response. If your laptop pings, how long does it take for the web server hosting to reply back to your laptop. This time is usually measured in milliseconds (ms). ![]() If you run multiple ping tests, the pings will almost never be consistent in repeated tests due to all of the variations and connections in the path between the device and the server being pinged.ĭata is meant to be delivered over an Internet connection in a consistent, steady stream of packets that your device then processes. Jitter is the measure of inconsistency in the stream of data packets. Like ping/latency, jitter is measured in milliseconds (ms). Jitter is an increasingly important measure since its effect is most noticeable in realtime applications such as video streaming (i.e. Netflix, YouTube, Hulu) or video conferencing (i.e. How do you find these metrics on your laptop or phone? In more asynchronous applications such as loading a webpage or working on a Google Doc, jitter has much less of an impact. There are a large number of websites that will provide these statistics for an Internet connection by running tests between your device and their servers. ![]() Most of these sites rely on a service provided by Ookla or Cloudflare. Below is a list of sites that we recommend for running these tests:įast.com is a network speed testing tool provided by Netflix. ![]()
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