The provider of personal internet servicesformer Fibertel, took it one step further this Monday with the evolution of its services with HFC and Fiber to the Home (FTTH) technologies. all over the country. This Monday announced a surprising increase in connection speed for more than 3 million users of its service.
In this way Personal has increased the internet speed at customers’ homes, doubling the browsing speed based on the contractual plan, without changes to the invoice, nor in the commercial terms of your current planrespecting the price they had with the previous speed and automatically.
Customers who have technology Hybrid Fiber (HFC) and with the willingness to change, they have already started enjoying the new speed of the internet. All those with speeds from 12 megabytes to 25 megabytes go to speeds up to 50 megs. While those of 100 go to 300 megabytes, and those of 300 to 500 megabytes.
For customers who have service through fiber to home (FTTH) They will also have a speed boost going from 25 or 50 megabytes to 100 megabytes, from 100 to 300 megabytes and from 300 to 500 megabytes.
How to measure internet speed
Users who want to check this advantage have free tools at hand, the same ones that are used to find out if the connection seems slow: do a speed test. It simply consists of accessing one of the many web pages designed for this purpose, such as the Internet Users Association (www.internautas.org); or even to the page of the Internet provider itself.
To do this, they first measure connection response time. Then they send an information packet to the device from which the test was initiated and wait for an automatically generated response. With that, they perform both a ping measurement, as well as rise and fall times.
Best of all, speed tests take seconds, are usually free, and can be run the same way from any device, be it a PC, tablet, or Android phone.
Even on the web you can easily find free internet measurement sites. For example that of FAST (https://fast.com/es/) which opens directly from the PC or devices in a quick measurement of how our speed is.
Tips for measuring speed
Although the speed test is just a click away, before starting it it is advisable to connect the device to the router via cable and not to use the Wi-Fi network for this. Factors associated with wireless technology, such as connection security encryption or low signal strength, can cause slow down.
At the time of measurement, it is also important that the computer or device used is not running any programs or using another Internet service, such as Netflix, which could consume the bandwidth of the connection. For this reason, it is equally important to disconnect the other devices that are in operation in the house from the network.
How to interpret the received data
To confirm or rule out a problem, once you have your speed test data, you need to compare it to your contracted internet speed. Thus, for example, if it is 100 megabytes, the upload speed shown by the test should tend to this number, even if it will never be exactly the same, warns technician Jorge Velázquez.
While slower download and upload speeds could indicate a problem with your internet service or router, if the test returns are normal, there could be problems with the website you were trying to access, or your home internet speed could be down. be good enough to support that kind of navigation.
Source: Clarin
