This is different from the numerous free services that tell you your speed. Pingtest gives your conncection a grade, calculating for ping time, packet loss, and the difference between your ping times or "jitter."
If you have a crappy connection, maybe you can use this test to negotiate a discount with your ISP, or get inspired to try switching to a different one.
]]>Wow, that's awesome.
]]>@j-o-h-n: I just want one Meg ;) But I use road runner with the turbo boost. I obtained 175 megs of data in about 10 mins this morning. It made me happy that it is fast.
]]>Perhaps the developer should make the app NOT run if Java is not installed - instead of crashing the browser with no info as to why.
]]>I stick with DSL reports because it measures my connection and then compares the same type by locality, giving me an understanding just how badly Verizon mauls me every month.
]]>Works fine here, multiple times. These tests are flash based, Probably need to update your Adobe Flash more often.
]]>So you got Comcast?
]]>Doesn't crash mine.
]]>Packet loss = 0, Pinged in at 32ms (is that good or bad?), Jitter = 1 ms...
Color me confuzzled.
]]>Compare the "Segments Sent / Segments Retransmitted" numbers. That's a better indication of packet loss.
]]>@the lesser of two weevils: Remember, this is only looking at the delay time from when your computer asks the server something, and when the server responds. It has nothing to with the actual download speed (unless you are experiencing severe ping delay in which case you will notice a delay because the servers take a long time to respond to you).
To check your download and upload speeds, check [speedtest.net]
]]>Man way back in the day Here in Calgary we were one of the first in NA with cable internet but there is no competition here and SHAW does not upgrade their network. Guess what their advertising slogan is lately? "Now 50% faster!" 50% faster than zero is still zero =(
]]>@Triterion:
Not so good as compared to others:
And that struck me as funnier than it should have.
]]>It did ask me to allow the site to do something Java-related. Do you have Java on your computer?
]]>@CompyPaq: I got a D, Uni internet sucks in general. Can barely watch standard YouTube vids...irritating..
]]>Firefox reports 99% packet loss yet my connection speed and ping time are what they are supposed to be (which would be impossible with 99% packet loss). In IE it reports it can't even test packet loss. I didn't care enough to look at my logs but they must be trying to use a funky port/protocol.
Although to their credit, they do take a page from Google and say "Beta". Ping me back when you get out of Beta.
]]>@CompyPaq: Where do you go??? I got an A at my university.
]]>@Taed: That's impressive. I'm on T3.
]]>@katstermonster: I think you and I tied 8ms ping 0ms jitter...I LOVE FiOS!
]]>@Colonel Jack O'Neill: It depends on what you are trying to meassure.
If you are measuring bandwidth, you need to go to your ISP's CO, as that is where your bandwidth is available to, once there, you have no guarantees, and in reality unless you are using an SLA connection (most residental and even most business connections are non-SLA), you arent guaranteed any bandwith at all.
If you are testing LATENCY you pick the server closest to your target...or just run a ping to it from the command line.
Distance is relevant. Proper routing protocol and network congestion are much much larger factors than distance. And these tests dont work on that.
]]>@DangerMouth: If it was a firefox pop up, it wasnt your firewall, it was likely an addon needing to be run, or a script needing to be executed.
If its your firewall, go to start -> control pannels -> windows security center -> firewall and make sure that is turned on.
If you are using a 3rd party firewall open the application and verify it is on.
]]>@bhr: Balls can be quite fast and deadly. Think kinetic kill weapons. Ouch!
Remember that there's speed and then there's bandwidth. You may have higher potential download bandwidth than my T-1, but I have dedicated 1 Mbps bandwidth in both directions and speed commitments and such from our provider.
In reality, I was probably just lucky in that my T-1 terminates in the same location as my "closest ping server" or some other similar explanation.
]]>@Taed: T1 is slow as balls. Im surprised.
]]>How to I get it up again?
(feeling very stupid right now)
]]>@reuvenb: Yep-they even link to it on pingtest.
]]>@Triterion: I got 4 ms ping and 0 ms jitter. I ran it again and got 5 ms ping and 1 ms jitter. I'm on a T-1.
]]>@MostlyHarmless: We shall not speak of the Yankees, kind sir.
]]>@MostlyHarmless: Quite on the contrary, sir. It would appear that I won.
]]>@Triterion: 8 ms ping, 0 ms jitter.
BOOSH!
]]>To a bespectacled penguin. That must be a new low for you.
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