Simply click or press the ‘Go’ button above, and our in-page tool will perform an instant speed test on your internet connection.

This is where running an internet speed test can come in handy. The internet speed you experience will depend on the type of broadband connection you have and the plan you choose, but knowing the speed you should be achieving can help you determine if your plan is underperforming. Since Netflix uses the same servers as its service for, the speeds are indicative of a device's quality of connectivity to Netflix.Just as there’s no one-size-fits-all internet plan, there’s also no one perfect internet speed to suit all Australians. Read: Netflix: Lots of potential in India, 'we're way behind YouTube and Hotstar' Netflix peering in India With these latency measures, incidentally, it becomes much easier for Netflix subscribers in India to see if their ISP has an Open Connect Appliance - a sort of last-mile content server the company uses to manage data load. In a way, now goes further than, showing users how much data was consumed during the test, something the latter does not do by default. Latency is the time it takes for a packet of data to do a round-trip between a server and the client accessing it. Now, users can view both upload speeds as well as latency.

To boot, it has removed the 'Compare with results' link that used to be there after a speed test was performed. Now, Netflix is expanding the site's features to make it much more similar to Ookla's, which is by far the most popular such service. Since it launched last year, the site has had over half a billion speed tests performed, the company said. Netflix's speed test service was initially designed to just measure download speeds, and specifically on Netflix servers at that.

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