One of key parameters by which the quality of the Internet is determined is its speed. At connection to the Internet your provider specifies the speed which he undertakes to deliver you in the contract. If your provider fulfills the obligations in full, then you can have no complaints concerning quality of your Internet. If speed does not suit you, movies are broadcast with delays, pages open long – there is an occasion to check the actual speed of your Internet connection. Here is how it can be done.
It is required to you
- You will need to use special service for determination of the entering and outgoing speed of the Internet. At the moment such free service is provided by many websites. But for the first time you can check speed by means of service ""I on the Internet!"", provided by the known company Yandex.
Instruction
1. Before measuring actually speed, make sure that in your computer there are no viruses and other malicious applications which can significantly slow down works of the Internet. Start the antivirus at full scale, and wait for the end of its work. If the computer is clean – it is possible to pass to the following step. If the antivirus revealed wreckers – delete them from the PC and start an antivirus once again already in the express mode finally to make sure that everything is all right.
2. After check disconnect antiviruses, antispywares, firewalls, a torrent clients and all other network programs installed on your PC.
3. Then come into the Network Connections folder and click with the right mouse button the Status button. Thus, you will be able to evaluate what network activity of your PC. If the number of the accepted/sent packages identical – everything is good if their number constantly grows – means or in your PC the virus sits, or you forgot to switch off some network program. Double-check these two positions.
4. Visit the website of Yandex, pass to the page of service ""I on the Internet!"" to the address real at the moment time the entering and outgoing speed.