{"id":360,"date":"2007-11-11T15:14:43","date_gmt":"2007-11-11T13:14:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=360"},"modified":"2007-11-11T15:14:43","modified_gmt":"2007-11-11T13:14:43","slug":"how-fast-is-your-internet-connection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=360","title":{"rendered":"How Fast Is Your Internet Connection?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered, and didn&#8217;t know how to check, here&#8217;s a useful website: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakeasy.net\/speedtest\/\">Speakeasy<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>By measuring the download and upload rate from the 8 locations in the USA you will be able to accurately measure your current line throughput or Internet connection speed.<\/p>\n<p>They also have good explanations for the not-so-geeky people:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Download<br \/>\nDownload is a measure of how fast your connection delivers content to your computer or local area network.<\/p>\n<p>Upload<br \/>\nUpload is the measure of how fast content is delivered from your computer or local area network to others on the Internet.<\/p>\n<p>To achieve optimal delivery of T1 or SDSL services, download and upload speed should match or at least be very close. This is very important for applications like VoIP, email, on-line gaming and other interactive programs. Upload speed is even more important if you are operating an email, web or file server at your location.<\/p>\n<p>Kbps<br \/>\nKbps transfer rate = kilobit per second transfer rate. There are 8 bits in a byte, so we would divide kbps by 8 to get KB\/sec transfer rate.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Check also what Speed Test is about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.speakeasy.net\/speedtest\/moreinfo.php\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you&#8217;ve ever wondered, and didn&#8217;t know how to check, here&#8217;s a useful website: Speakeasy. By measuring the download and upload rate from the 8 locations in the USA you will be able to accurately measure your current line throughput &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/?p=360\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[12,13,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-360","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-in-english","category-information-society","category-tips-and-tricks"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=360"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=360"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=360"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.veni.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=360"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}