Mobile Internet Speed Test

What does the Mobile Internet Speed Test do?

“Measuring the bandwidth and latency of an Internet connection against a server.”

The data rate is evaluated in both direction: upload and download.

Internet Speed has direct impact on the quality of any Internet-based service

What does the Mobile Internet Speed Test measure? 

• LATENCY:  Round trip delay time between two endpoints. It is measured using ICMP Ping tool from the local phone to the MLAB server.

• DOWNLOAD:  Receiving data from a remote system, typically a server. It’s simulated by MLAB server that sends to our NDT client a bunch of data on one or multiple connection.

• UPLOAD:  Sending data from a remote system, typically a server. It’s simulated by our NDT client that sends to the MLAB server a bunch of data on a single connection.

How is Mobile Internet Speed Test measured?

The Internet Speed Test infrastructure is provided by our partner, Measurement Lab.

M-Lab is one of the most trusted independent labs for network measurement, backed by academic institutions and used by Google and other large Internet companies.

M-Lab provides an API through which the client can ask the best server to perform the test. The criteria are the geographical proximity and the lowest latency.

When you use M-Lab’s measurement services, your device is connected to servers closest to you geographically. You can view all of our current server locations on our infrastructure status page: https://www.measurementlab.net/status/

M-labs do not have servers in Switzerland, so the servers in Italy will be the closest for any discrepancy in speed test for the Switzerland location . M-labs placement of servers is quite different than other “speed” testing platforms users may be more familiar with such as Ookla. They host servers in Tier 1 data centers where ISPs peer with other networks, rather than inside the “last mile” networks that provide you direct service.

What type of Internet Speed should I expect?

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