A good internet speed is a subjective topic influenced by several factors. For more information, see What is a Good Internet Speed? and How do I Know if My Internet Connection is Good?
We used a broad range of remote broadband configurations for our testing. We labeled these configurations with four subjective broadband categories for analysis purposes, as shown in the following table.
The LAN configuration represents the campus, office or local user and was used to benchmark against the remote network categories. We added the “Very Poor” broadband category after testing to aid with contrasting and delineating end-user experience results.
Network category | Very Poor (E-1, DS-1 Europe) | Poor (Standard ADLS downstream) | Standard (Standard ADLS downstream) | Good (OC-3, STS-3, high-speed ADSL downstream) | LAN |
Bandwidth | 2.048 Mbps | 6.155 Mbps | 44.736 Mbps | 155 Mbps | 1825 Mbps |
Latency | 80 milliseconds (ms) | 30 ms | 20 ms | 4 ms | 0.046 ms |
Loss | 6% | 2% | 1% | <1% | 0.50% |
Jitter | 30 ms | 10 ms | 5 ms | 1 ms | 0.046 ms |