Internet Connection Reliability Test
Online services such as Pingtest or Speedtest enable you to test the reliability of your device's Internet connection by running various tests.
Internet users can experience a variety of problems when connecting to websites or when they are using services on the Internet. Sites may not open at all, videos may buffer more than they should, you may experience connection issues in video or voice chat sessions, or that download speeds are nowhere near the advertised upper limit of the Internet connection.
Some of these problems are related to the user's Internet connection while others to viruses, background programs that do transfer data or communicate with servers, or unresponsive or slow servers.
It is always a good idea to test the Internet connection itself before contacting the Internet Service Provider for troubleshooting help.
There are quite a few ways to analyze and troubleshoot Internet connections. Two of the most common ones are traceroute and ping commands which you can execute locally or online as they are part of Windows and other operating systems.
Internet Connection Reliability Test
Update: Some services mentioned below are no longer available. We suggest you use one of the following services to run connection and speed tests on your devices:
- Internet Connection Speed test on Fast.com (by Netflix)
- Speedtest by Ookla
- Broadband Line Quality Test by Freeola
- Internet Health Test
The Internet service Pingtest offers another perspective on the quality of an Internet connection.
Pingtest runs tests on a server near the user's physical location in the world to analyze the connection's packet loss, ping and jitter.
It rates the Internet connection based on those factors which should give you a solid understanding of what's wrong with the Internet connection.
You can of course run those commands from the command line as well, using ping and tracert commands but the visual presentation and the one-click to test approach is certainly appealing.
The reliability test has been created by the same company that runs the Internet connection speed test over at Speedtest which can also be helpful at determining the quality of an Internet connection.
It will run a quick test to display your PC's ping, download and upload speed which can provide you with interesting information. Note that it is recommended to select a test server that is close to your physical connection to improve the reliability of the test.
It is recommended to run the tests several times, especially at times when you are usually using the device.
Pingtest requires Adobe Flash, while Speedtest may be switched over to using HTML5 instead for running the tests. It is unclear right now if Pingtest will be updated as well to remove the Flash requirement.
Now You:Which tools do you use if you want to test the reliability of an Internet connection? Let us know in the comments.
Doesn’t Windows 8 know that www. or http:// are passe ?
Well it is a bit difficulty to distinguish between name.com domains and files for instance.
I know a service made by google that is similar to Google bookmarks.
http://www.google.com/saved
@Ashwin–Thankful you delighted my comment; who knows how many “gamers” would have disagreed!
@Martin
The comments section under this very article (3 comments) is identical to the comments section found under the following article:
https://www.ghacks.net/2023/08/15/netflix-is-testing-game-streaming-on-tvs-and-computers/
Not sure what the issue is, but have seen this issue under some other articles recently but did not report it back then.
Omg a badge!!!
Some tangible reward lmao.
It sucks that redditors are going to love the fuck out of it too.
With the cloud, there is no such thing as unlimited storage or privacy. Stop relying on these tech scums. Purchase your own hardware and develop your own solutions.
This is a certified reddit cringe moment. Hilarious how the article’s author tries to dress it up like it’s anything more than a png for doing the reddit corporation’s moderation work for free (or for bribes from companies and political groups)
Almost al unlmited services have a real limit.
And this comment is written on the dropbox article from August 25, 2023.
First comment > @ilev said on August 4, 2012 at 7:53 pm
For the God’s sake, fix the comments soon please! :[
Yes. Please. Fix the comments.
With Google Chrome, it’s only been 1,500 for some time now.
Anyone who wants to force me in such a way into buying something that I can get elsewhere for free will certainly never see a single dime from my side. I don’t even know how stupid their marketing department is to impose these limits on users instead of offering a valuable product to the paying faction. But they don’t. Even if you pay, you get something that is also available for free elsewhere.
The algorithm has also become less and less savvy in terms of e.g. English/German translations. It used to be that the bot could sort of sense what you were trying to say and put it into different colloquialisms, which was even fun because it was like, “I know what you’re trying to say here, how about…” Now it’s in parts too stupid to translate the simplest sentences correctly, and the suggestions it makes are at times as moronic as those made by Google Translations.
If this is a deep-learning AI that learns from users’ translations and the phrases they choose most often – which, by the way, is a valuable, moneys worthwhile contribution of every free user to this project: They invest their time and texts, thereby providing the necessary data for the AI to do the thing as nicely as they brag about it in the first place – alas, the more unprofessional users discovered the translator, the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, the greater the aggregate of linguistically illiterate users has become, and the worse the language of this deep-learning bot has become, as it now learns the drivel of every Tom, Dick and Harry out there, which is why I now get their Mickey Mouse language as suggestions: the inane language of people who can barely spell the alphabet, it seems.
And as a thank you for our time and effort in helping them and their AI learn, they’ve lowered the limit from what was once 5,000 to now 1,500…? A big “fuck off” from here for that! Not a brass farthing from me for this attitude and behaviour, not in a hundred years.