Its original OpenSignal app helps you “accurately measure the everyday experience you receive on your mobile network”. OpenSignal is an independent analytics firm that specialises in measuring and monitoring mobile network speeds and experience and Koffers two apps. You will then be presented with the maximum video capability of your network. Once this is complete, a series of short videos are played at increasing video resolutions, until the test fails to complete in a reasonable amount of time, or reaches a resolution of 4K. And following the addition of video testing to its iOS app recently, it has now rolled out that functionality to its Android application as well.īy selecting the 'Video' option at the bottom of the app, a series of video tests begin, by playing a short video using adaptive bitrate streaming, to ascertain the typical video experience on your connection. Ookla, possibly more than any other speed testing company, is regularly pushing updates to its apps and services. And the site also boasts a 5G Map, which you can find here.

It shows your average download and upload speeds as well as your ping and jitter readings, the number of connections, the server name and location and network details. These results can be stored, or shared.

Now that you have a basic idea of what the different flavours of 5G look like, it's time to look at the best ways to test your connection, and ensure you're getting the kind of speeds your mobile network operator has advertized.Īvailable online, as well as via apps for Android, iOS, Apple TV, Google Chrome, macOS and Windows, Ookla’s Speedtest is an easy way to check your web speeds. This refers to the speeds expected to be seen in factories and manufacturing spaces that will power IoT devices by combining standards to boost the maximum. These are the maximum achievable in real-world scenarios, rather than in lab tests. This is often referred to as “sub-6GHz” 5G or “everyday 5G” and, as the name suggests, will be the standard, everyday networks consumers will typically use on a daily basis.Īlso known as Total 5G or 5G+, this describes the speeds quoted by manufacturers when talking about 5G. Also known by many other names including 4G+, 5GE, 4G LTE Plus, 4G LTE Advanced, 4G LTE-A and even 4.5G, refers to data speeds that are faster than those offered by Gigabit LTE but don’t yet technically reach the minimum requirements to be officially classified as 5G.

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