Measuring the speed of your internet connection is very easy. Thanks to the large number of available services that offer this function, you will be able to perform a complete measurement in a few seconds and with a very high degree of reliability. But you should keep that in mind that the measurement is performed from a specific deviceand from a specific location in your home, which means that not all the devices you use will have the same speed.

A simple example is enough to better understand. If I decide to measure the speed of my internet connection from a PC that is connected by cable to the router, I will record the download speed 944.79 Mbpsand a upload speed of 818.49 Mbps. However, if I run the same test with my smartphone, iPhone 8 Plus, from the same position as my computer and connected via Wi-Fi, the speed I get 286,14 Mbps, pretty good figure, everything is said.

However, if I measure the speed again with my smartphone in the room closest to the router, there is already a small decrease in speed, which fluctuates between 240 and 250 Mbps. As I move away from the router, the speed keeps decreasing and stabilizes at about 60 Mbps in the furthest place from my home.

The difference is remarkable, I move a few meters away from the router and there are two rooms between it and my smartphone, causes a significant reduction in speed, although it is still enough for you to surf the internet and watch streamed content.

When in doubt, 944.79 Mbps is equivalent 118.1 MB / swhile 250 Mbps is 31.25 MB / sand 60 Mbps is equivalent 7.5 MB / s These are very different values, there is no doubt about that and they explain in themselves why we should measure the speed of the internet connection from different devices.

How to accurately measure your internet connection: Five tips

1. We have already seen the first one in the first part of the article, use different devices to measure the speed of our internet connection. Only then will we have realistic values ​​for each team.
2. Second, it is necessary to measure from the place or places where we will use the mentioned devices. For example, if you use a laptop connected via Wi-Fi in the living room, but measure in the same room where the router is installed, you will not have real value.
3. It is also necessary clean speed measurementthat is, without any type of background download or any application that can consume bandwidth, because it will give us an incredible result.
4. It is important that we ensure that we have successfully joined with the device we will use to measure speed. So if we are going to connect via Wi-Fi, it is important to make sure that we have connected our device to the most advanced and compatible network possible. For example, if our smartphone supports Wi-Fi 5, we must connect using this standard and not Wi-Fi 4.
5. In the end, it’s also important that you avoid enforcing any optimization which may change the result and do not normally occur in real use. For example, if you lock yourself in the living room due to the cold and measure with the door open and closer to it, you enter two points that will give you a result that is far removed from reality. The difference may not be large, but it will distort the result and offer you value that will not be real.

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