on
05-01-2019
12:17 PM
- edited on
05-05-2019
09:42 PM
by
RogersTim
Curious how fast your Internet connection is? Trying to troubleshoot a speed related issue? Look no further!
Check out this quick tutorial on best practices while testing your internet speeds.
Upload: This is the speed at which your upstream Internet connection allows you to send files to other computers, servers or other online resources.
Download: This is the speed at which your downstream Internet connection allows you to receive files.
Gbps/Mbps/Kbps: Stands for Gigabits, Megabits and Kilobits per second. Gigabits, Megabits and Kilobits are a measure of data speed, not to be confused with a Gigabytes, Megabytes or Kilobytes which are a measure of data storage. There are eight Megabits in a Megabyte. In other words, divide the speed in megabits per second (Mbps) by eight to get the megabytes per second (MB/s).