Internet speed guides
Clear, practical answers to the most common questions about internet speed, with no jargon and no sales pitch.
How much internet speed do you really need?
How many Mbps you need for streaming, video calls, gaming and working from home, with a simple way to size a plan for your household.
Read the guide →Ping, latency and jitter explained
What ping, latency, jitter and packet loss mean, what numbers are good for gaming and video calls, and how to improve them.
Read the guide →Why is my internet slow? 10 fixes that actually work
A step-by-step guide to finding out why your internet is slow and fixing it, from Wi-Fi problems and old routers to congestion and provider issues.
Read the guide →How to test a VPS or server network speed from the command line
Measure the real download, upload and latency of a VPS or headless server over SSH with one command, and learn how to read and compare the results.
Read the guide →Mbps vs MB/s: why downloads look 8 times slower than your plan
The difference between megabits and megabytes per second, how to convert Mbps to MB/s, and how long a download will really take.
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