Ping Test Your Internet Connection

Previously, I wrote about using Speedtest.net to measure your Internet Connection Speed. However, it measure only the connection speed as promised by your ISP provider. In this article I would like to show you another test tool which offers test on your Internet Connection Quality.

Pingtest.net gives each test result a grade to help you interpret the overall quality. It measures specifically on your connection’s Packet Loss, Ping & Jitter quality. It sounds technical at first; nevertheless Pingtest.net makes the test process easy for you. All you need to do is to click a button & the test result is shown in minutes.

Screen shot from pingtest.net

So, what do the technical terms mean?

Packet Loss is a measurement the loss of data during the transmitting & receiving of “packets” data. It can mean download & upload speeds or quality of data streaming. 0% means your connection is perfect, if anything greater than that should cause concern.

Ping on the other hand measures how long it takes for a “packet” of data to transmit from your computer to a server on the Internet and goes back. Similar to Packet Loss, the lower is better; result below 100 ms should be expected from a broadband connection.

Jitter measures the variance for successive ping tests. 0 Jitter means the results were exactly the same every time, anything above 0 is the variance. Lower Jitter value is better, nevertheless some Jitter should be expected over the Internet & having it be small is in good health.

Go ahead, test out your Internet Connection Quality, give pingtest.net a try.