For those who live in the Internet – on work or just as a hobby, his playfulness has paramount value. Really, very strongly irritates when the page hangs up or the shot of the favourite movie stops on the most interesting place. At connection of the Internet the supplier who provides this service to you specifies in the contract what speed he is obliged to provide you. If you have a suspicion that this speed does not correspond to real – check it. Here is how it can be done.
It is required to you
- You will need service which gives the chance to measure connection speed in real time. Now such service is provided by many websites, but it is for the first time better to contact service of the known, solid company. For example, it is possible to use service ""I on the Internet!"", developed by the Yandex company.
Instruction
1. Before measuring speed, it is necessary to make sure that porridges the computer is free from viruses, spies and other wreckers. It must be done for two reasons. First, during measurement of speed to you will be to disconnect an antivirus, and secondly, viruses in itself are strongly braked by the speed of the Internet and the reason of lag can be in them. So, include the antivirus and check the PC. If malicious applications are found – delete them. If is not present, you pass to the following step.
2. After check disconnect all antiviruses, antispywares, firewalls, torrents and all other network programs installed on your PC.
3. Make sure that all conditions to start check of speed are created. For this purpose come into the Network Connections menu and click with the right mouse button on network connection "Status". Look at how the number meaning the number of the accepted/sent packages behaves. If it is stable – everything is all right. If this number constantly grows – it is bad and says that or after all the network program works, or not all viruses are deleted. Double-check the PC an antivirus.
4. And only now visit the website of Yandex and pass to the page of service "I — on the Internet!". On the page you will see a nice lineechka of green color on which it is written "Measure speed". Click it and wait minute. Soon the program will give you two values: your outgoing and your entering speed. Actual speed of your Internet is checked.