How to measure the quality of your internet with FAST, the best speed meter

With the arrival of ADSL, the quality of the Internet connection in our homes took a very important leap, both in speed and in quality and stability. And since fiber optics became popular recently, the speeds achieved today were unthinkable a few years ago. But in one internet, the most important thing is not only the descent speed, but also the upload speedas well as a latency both unloading and loading.

Up to what point are important? Don't you know how to measure them yet? Well now thanks to the improvements included in the FAST speed test, with the help of Netflix, we can know these parameters to assess the quality of our connection. This will be very important when surfing the web, downloading or playing online. To know the quality of your internet connection you just have to follow these simple steps. The first step is to access it from a device with an internet connection, whether it is a Windows PC, un Mac, or a device with Android or iOSIn the FAST page from our preferred browser. We have to take into account that the measured data they will be much more accurate if we don't have any background processes, nor are we doing any download. The interface is very simple, and as soon as we enter the page, the speed test starts on its own.

At the moment the test ends, the information we find is very scanty: it barely shows us the download speed at the time of the test. But when we click on the button «Show more information»Is when we really get all the data we were looking for.

We have at our fingertips also important data such as the upload speed or even the download and upload latenciesa at the time of testing. This data, measured in milliseconds, is the best indication of the stability and speed of our network when using applications that require a lot of bandwidth, such as voluminous downloads or online games. The more even these two data are, the more stable and reliable it will be our connection. It also tells us the amount of data that has been used to perform the test, important information if we want to measure the quality of our mobile data connection, but less relevant when doing the same through Wi-Fi or cable.

As we can see, the mobile interface is very similar to web interface for PC, offering us the same data of our connection, either by Wi-Fi or by mobile data. Undoubtedly, to this day, the test speed faster, more complete and reliable, giving us parameters of our connection that, otherwise, it would be more difficult for us to obtain.