Do Internet Speed Tests REALLY measure your Internet speed? By Liron Segev

How, accurate are speed, testing sites like speediest. net and fast comm. Should we be using those as results to find our ISP and complain about the terrible internet speed? Well, the answer is yes, and no so here's what you need to know about testing your internet speed, hey welcome to another episode of talking tick. Would the ticking I am an engineer on Negev, where I make ticks simple if you're into phones, gadget, apps tips and tricks on how to hit that subscribe button? And let's get on to today's show. So typically this is what happens? You start watching some Netflix and starts to buffer all you in the middle of the game, and it starts to lag so badly that your teammates leave you behind. The first thing you do is make sure you're still connected once you realized.

You are what you do. Are you head off to speediest. net or fast calm when you're those speed testing sites, but here's the thing- and you might have noticed this when you run a test on speediest. net for example, and then you run another one on fast, calm, you're going to get to sift results which is kind of weird, because if the whole point of speed testing style is to test your speed, surely there should be exactly the same? So if they're not the same, does that mean it's not reliable? What's actually going on so when you hit their speed testing sites, typically, they would check for three things: it's your upload speed, just download speed and then your ping or your latency. Now all of those are imported, and I've done an entire video on that be available up here in the cards or in the description below go check those out, and it will tell you how much internet speed you actually need.

So without going to the technical jump. This is what they do number one. Is it identify your location via your IP address? Your public IP address number two is that they find the closest servers around. You number three be out of all those closest servers that are around you. They look for the ones that's going to be the fastest for you, and they do that using like their own internal ping test.

So now you have got to you, and you've got the closest server and net when you start doing the upload, the download and the latency test for you and your internet speed. Okay, so if they all work at the same or aren't results exactly the same on nerds and fast comment, others well, that's because there are a bunch of variables. So the first variable is your internal network. When you run a speed test, essentially what you're doing from your computer or your phone or your tablet, you're initiating a command to say, hey, go and get me the sweetest now, whilst you're doing that, your entire network is still working you're, not going to get the same results. If it's just you on the network, doing a test versus you and the whole family and somebody's downloading, the updates to the latest PS4 games and someone is watching Netflix and someone's doing a Zoom call.

So already we have the variables, so the two SATs are not gonna, be the same by the way is the most accurate kind of test that you can run is isolating everyone off the network and making sure it's only you ideally hardwired into your router and then doing your test straight from there. Okay, the second variable that you have to contend with is that your own ISP may be throttling your bad word. It may be speeding some things up and slowing some things down and again. I've done a video on that link will be in the description below where you can test. If your own ISP is throttling a bandwidth and the third variable of why the tests are not the same is because each individual system works slightly differently.

They formulas are different. The algorithm is different, the architecture is different. The server loads are different. The connection terms are different. The way that they set up is different, and therefore you're, not gonna, marry the like-for-like okay.

So now, what are we saying that these speed tests are SATs are not reliable? What I'm saying is you have to treat it as a barometer and not a science? In other words, these speed tests. Ours are a good indicator of what's going on with your speed, but they're, not an exact measurement of your megabits per second going up and down the lines. So what should you be doing before you call your ISP complaining about your internet speed? Well, what you should be doing is number one go to the websites run a speed test, but run it multiple times. Two or three times is probably good, and then you'll be able to get an average of the upload average of the download and an average of your ping. Now some of us will be saying you should be flashing, your DNS, you should be getting a new lease on your IP and a bunch of other geeky stuff.

Well, realistically, most of us are not gonna. Go to that trouble and if you're, that tech-savvy, not even watching this anyways and just complaining in the comments already, so we can ignore them and what we're going to do is not just run multiple times. The speed test on one server, also fire up the same test on another server, so now you're getting an average from fast comm and an average from speediest. net. For example, that's going to give you a nice indication of what's going on with your speed, if you're not at least 70, to 80% of what you pay for, then something is wrong, so, for example, if you're paying for a hundred megabits per second, but only getting 10 megabits per second.

That is terrible, and you should be finding your ISP. So if you're not getting between 70 and 80% of the speed that you have paying for check out these videos down yet of how to troubleshoot your network and how to get faster Wi-Fi before you pick up the fine to the ISP hit the head below to subscribe. If this is your first time, yeah give the video a thumbs up. If you liked it, and I'll see you in those videos fix your Wi-Fi, let's go.

Source : Liron Segev