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What would happen if the internet went down for a day?
What if there was a full-day internet outage? An immediate collapse of society wouldn't occur, but daily operations would quickly become complicated because today's world is more dependent on the internet than we often realize. Which services would stop functioning first, and what would happen with payments, transportation, or work?
WPA, WPA2, WPA3: Which Wi-Fi security should you use today?
WPA, WPA2, WPA3, AES or TKIP? Wi-Fi security settings might initially seem unnecessarily complicated. However, when you understand what each abbreviation stands for, it becomes fairly simple. Therefore, we'll explain the differences between them and which is the best choice today. We'll also suggest what settings to choose if you have older devices at home that don't support the latest standard.
On this site you can test your internet connection for free.
We recommend you to lower or stop all other internet activities during the test. In other cases the test results are less precise.
Outputs of this test:
- download broadband speed test - what speed are data from the testing server downloaded by
- upload speed - what speed are data to the testing server uploaded by
- web ping - the time needed to send and receive a small amount of data, quite similar to regular ping, but tested by a TCP packet through the HTTP service
How do Internet speed measurements work?
From the user’s perspective, everything is simple. In the web browser, click on the measurement button and wait. Before starting the speed test, it is important to deactivate all tasks, applications and devices that could use the capacity to connect to the Internet. The results would be affected by that and you would not find out anything, or the conclusions would not have the required notification value.
The technical solution and the background of the speed test itself are complex, but to explain it in a few words and very simplistically, the test simulates a situation in which you download or upload data. The measured values are calculated depending on the speed of these transmission. You can test the speed of up to 30 test servers located in geographically different locations.
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